The performers for this year’s 2024 Music Industry Trusts (MITS) Awards have been revealed – find out more below.
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The 2024 MITS Awards are scheduled to take place on November 4 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in support of two important UK music charities; the BRIT Trust and Nordoff & Robbins.
This year, the vital titular Music Industry Trusts Award will be given to Jason Iley MBE, the chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK & Ireland for his contributions to the British music industry.
Today (October 3), the MITS Awards commitee have announced that performing at the awards ceremony in November are Mark Ronson, recent Mercury Prize nominee Cat Burns and Jake Bugg.
Cat Burns performs at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2023 at Camperdown Wildlife Centre on May 28, 2023 in Dundee, Scotland. CREDIT: Joseph Okpako/WireImage/Getty Images
In a press statement, Burns – who was a student at the BRIT School, which is funded by the BRIT Trust – said: “I’m really excited to perform at the MITS. I’m so grateful to the BRIT School for my time there, and the funds raised through the event are vital in helping to find and nurture the next generation of creative talent.”
This year’s MITS Award recipient Jason Iley will follow in the footsteps of past recipients Annie Lennox, Kylie Minogue, Rob Stringer, Emma Banks, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Lucian Grainge, Michael Eavis, Pete Tong, Roger Daltrey, Jamal Edwards and last year’s awardee Lucy Dickins among many others.
Iley has served as Sony Music UK & Ireland’s chairman for the last decade, making him the longest serving chairman in the company’s history.
In 2022, Jamal Edwards became the MITS’ first-ever posthumous recipient after the author, broadcaster and DJ died unexpectedly in February that year. Edwards is credited with helping to launch the careers of Stormzy, Skepta, Dave and Ed Sheeran via his youth broadcasting and production film channel SB.TV. Edwards launched the channel as a teenager to share clips that he’d recorded of his friends performing on the estate where he lived in Acton, London.
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