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We love music!
Explore: check out 1000+ Connects Artist Pages – each one a micro-website collating all Artist’s online music outlets & stories
Share: find an Connects Artist Page or article that you love: ‘like it’ and ‘click’ to share it on your socials
Inspire: search our countless jazz clubs, venues, and gig listings, to see where you’d like to go and where you’d like to play.
ConnectsMusic is powered by creativity, driven by innovation, and built on the strength of community.
We bring music and people together — by artists, for artists, and for the audiences who love discovering something new. We champion the vibrant diversity of today’s music industry.
As a free, Artist platform, Jazz Club and Venue Directory, we’re here to spark inspiration, fuel collaboration, and connect the music world in all its forms.
Our mission is simple: grow and support grassroots music. We’re building an ecosystem that celebrates creativity, lifts emerging talent, and breaks down the barriers that hold artists back. By shining a spotlight on grassroots artists and promoters, we’re opening doors to new audiences, new opportunities, and new musical journeys.
We’re already proud to stand alongside our 5,000+ audience who share our passion.
In a time when the music world faces more challenges than ever, community matters. We’re here to support, showcase, and amplify the incredible talent all around us — because when our community grows, the whole industry gets stronger.
ConnnectsMusic founded and run by Emily Saunders; vocalist, composer, producer, and passionate activist for our music industry.
Emily says: “Growing up in a family of music creators, working and connecting within our incredible music community has always been everything to me.
“Experiencing the power of connection, collaboration, and combined voices is the main drive behind my creation of ConnectsMusic.
“Expanding this passion into WeAreMusic.info the anti-harrassment, safe space signposting portal/campaign is also dear to my heart, please check it out too”.
“The Jazz world thrives on collaborative spirits. ConnectsMusic provides an accessible, free portal for artists and associates to build on the heart of unity that Jazz represents. It is a music industry networking source supporting the UK based scene with a platform for the world to experience a Jazz array – at the click of their fingertips.”
Carleen Anderson
Award winning vocalist, recording artist, composer, lyricist, producer
Winner of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
“In this sea of internet information overload, it’s great to be a part of, and have access to, a new and growing portal like ConnectsMusic, where you can engage with all the different aspects of your art, within a more community spirited feel and fashion.”
Cleveland Watkiss MBE
Award winning international vocalist, professor (Trinity Laban), Warriors International
“ConnectsMusic is a communal service which helps us all … whether we are an artist or a manager or a promoter. It’s the perfect antidote to the unwanted divisions in our society by virtue of its sharing nature and positivity.”
Mary James
Artist management
“Just as the primary genre it supports, from very important initial connections and in a relatively short space of time it has developed into a great forum facilitating fantastic creativity (in the U.K. and further afield) and it continues to expand and evolve. This should be encouraged as it benefits all involved with every aspect of the music.”
Jason Yarde
Composer, arranger, producer, musical director & saxophonist
“ConnectsMusic/JazzConnects is one of the most comprehensive places on the net for Jazz Promo. The Ivors Academy was represented at leading jazz trade fair, Jazz Ahead, held annually in Bremen, having been invited to join the ground-breaking UK organisation ConnectsMusic/JazzConnects, setup by Emily Saunders. A huge thank you to Emily for making it happen and including so many Academy members, commissioners & potential members.”
Orphy Robinson MBE
Award winning multi-instrumentalist and composer
