The Detroit Musicians Fund announces 2025 Scholarship Competition
Detroit, MI – September 2025
The Detroit Musicians Fund is pleased to announce it will offer its 2025 scholarship, to a talented student of jazz music. This will be the 7 th year of an alternating system, accepting applications from college students performing in jazz music. The 2025 DMF Scholarship Competition will be open to students of jazz music.
The DMF will once again offer its annual music scholarship award in the amount of $1,000. “Thanks to a generous anonymous donation the Fund received in 2017, we are able to offer this scholarship to a deserving college music student,” explained former board secretary, Helen Near. “We thank our special benefactor and all of our benefactors for making this annual award possible.”
The DMF Scholarship will be awarded to a deserving instrumental music major (either performance or education), who is studying full-time or has been accepted at a college, university or conservatory, and is either a Michigan resident, or a graduate from a Michigan high school. All interested instrumental jazz music students are welcomed and encouraged to apply by the deadline below.
Interested jazz music students should contact the Detroit Musicians Fund for more information, and an application form. The application deadline is November 28, 2025; the winner will be announced in December 2025.
The Detroit Musicians Fund is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation, founded by the Detroit Federation of Musicians (AFM Local 5), for the purpose of assisting union musicians in dire need and providing scholarships to college music students. Donations to the Detroit Musicians Fund are tax-exempt to the extent allowable by law.
Contact:
Carl Cafagna
Treasurer, Detroit Musicians Fund
sec-tres@detroitmusicians.net
20833 Southfield Rd,
Southfield, MI 48075
(248)569-5400 Ext 3