WMF panel @inJazz: Going back to my roots…but how?

1 juni, 2023|bovenaan, Conferentie Expertmeeting, English, Internationaal, Muziekarchieven|

Going back to my roots … but how? WMF panel @ inJazz - Friday June 23- 16.00 Imagine: your (grand)-parents descend from Cape Verde, Chili, Curaçao, Ghana, Indonesia, Suriname; countries the Netherlands was connected to for all sorts of reasons. Imagine: You want to continue their musical heritage, adding to more specific reasons. July 1 2023: at Keti Koti (the chain is cut) 150 years of abolition of slavery in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles will be commemorated. 2024: opening of the first Migration Museum in the Netherlands. Both moments mark the need to look back- & forward while opening new perspectives. After all, the diaspora of musical [...]

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Last chance for ESNS24 early bird advantage!

12 mei, 2023|Conferentie Expertmeeting, English, Nieuws|

This weekend will be your last chance to get Conference Registrations for ESNS24 at the Early Bird rate! Don't miss out, buy a registration before Monday 15 May save up to €100,-. Young professionals, 28 or under, always save up to €80,- with an ESNS Young ticket. Get yours while you still can! What does the Conference registration include? Access to the conference Access to the festival Access to the ESNS Delegates Database to network with other attendees in advance Access to ESNS Analytics where you can find up-to-date data on artists who performed at previous editions. Access to exclusive (digital) content.  Get the Early Bird Registration

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The Netherlands are jazzahead! partner country in 2024

7 mei, 2023|English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

The Netherlands will become jazzahead! partner country in 2024. This was announced on 29 April in Bremen by Claudia Roth, Germany's Minister of State for Culture and Media. She did so before a full house at Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, in the presence of Dewi van der Weerd, Dutch ambassador for international cultural cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jazzahead! is the largest trade fair for the international jazz industry and the place for high-quality, contemporary jazz from Europe and overseas. Sybille Kornitschky, who runs jazzahead! for Messe Bremen, about the Dutch presence in 2024: "They totally deserve this. It's no accident that our juries have been consistently choosing [...]

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WOMEX announces the WOMEX 23 Jury and the Club Summit Curator

16 februari, 2023|English, Internationaal, Nieuws, Womex|

Berlin/A Coruña: Piranha Arts, the organisers of WOMEX, today announce the official Jury, also known as the 7 Samurai. From all the proposals received from around the globe, this year's selected Jury will curate the official Showcase and Conference Programme for WOMEX 23, taking place in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, from 25 – 29 October 2023. WOMEX aspires to reflect the music and its music community in all fairness and equity. The official WOMEX jury system was established in 1999 that comprises independent jury members, who change annually and come from all over the world. This year's Jury members - like the participants of the WOMEX programme - come from different regions. [...]

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jazzahead! 2023: co-exhibitor registration

15 februari, 2023|English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

(bron inJazz, foto Teis Semey at jazzahead! 2022) From 27 – 30 April 2023, jazzahead! will take place in Bremen (DE). The Dutch inJazz stand will be provided by inJazz in cooperation with Fonds Podiumkunsten. Together, we will set up a corresponding promotional campaign. After the encouraging return to live this year, we expect jazzahead! 2023 will again be valuable in presenting Dutch jazz and establishing international contacts. Germany is partner country of jazzahead! 2023 The program will include four major premieres of completely newly-formed jazz ensembles, with bandleaders from Germany working alongside musicians from the Netherlands, France, Austria and the USA. The bandleaders have already been appointed [...]

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The first ever European Folk Day set for 23 September 2023

9 februari, 2023|English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

EFN is delighted to announce two pieces of splendid news for the folk and traditional sector in Europe. Firstly, EFN can now confirm that 23 September 2023 will be the first-ever European Folk Day.  The idea of a pan-European event to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of the traditional arts of music, advance and storytelling has been a constant theme of enthusiastic discussion with EFN members since the network’s first conference in 2019. And now it will become a reality – on 23 September - appropriately the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Secondly, yesterday the MusicAIRE programme announced that it has awarded [...]

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After the pandemic, young people need music education more than ever before

8 februari, 2023|English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

Boosting music and arts can improve overall student achievement and well-being byDalouge Smith and Henry Donahue, January 24, 2023   When 15-year-old Ka'iulani Iaea first moved schools, she struggled. She missed her friends and familiar teachers. Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. "It was very hard and rough because I hate change. But being able to feel the music and express myself freely made it very much easier for me," the high school student shared on the Tamron Hall Show during the announcement of the 2023 Lewis Prize awards for community nonprofits [...]

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WOMEX 2023 Call Proposals

1 februari, 2023|Call, Conferentie Expertmeeting, English, Geen onderdeel van een categorie, Internationaal, Nieuws, Womex|

(for English scroll down) Uitnodiging aan alle artiesten, bands, dj's en muziekproducenten, filmmakers, deskundigen uit de industrie en visionairs. Berlijn/A Coruña: WOMEX organisatoren Piranha Arts en Nordesía Produccións, de lokale partner van dit jaar, hebben de jaarlijkse Call for Proposals geopend voor de 29e editie van WOMEX die zal plaatsvinden in A Coruña, Galicië, Spanje, 25 - 29 oktober 2023. De WOMEX-oproep tot het indienen van voorstellen richt zich tot alle musici, filmmakers en muziekprofessionals uit de hele wereld. Het officiële programma wordt uit alle ontvangen inzendingen geselecteerd door een onafhankelijke, internationale en jaarlijks wisselende jury, ook bekend als de Seven Samurai (jury 2023 wordt binnenkort bekendgemaakt). Voorstellen [...]

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Meet jazzahead! at ESNS 2023

27 december, 2022|Conferentie Expertmeeting, English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

Trade fair, conference and festival jazzahead! is world’s biggest gathering of the jazz industry with a strong European focus. It is held annually in April in Bremen, northwest Germany. jazzahead! increasingly and specifically addresses participants from areas that move on the musical fringes of jazz. What goals jazzahead! is pursuing in this regard, what possibilities of involvement it has for future development, is the topic of a lunch event to which jazzahead! cordially invites you. Do you feel addressed? Great, here below you will find all the information you need to participate... Invitation jazzahead! Networking Lunch in an exclusive setting with a limited number of participants Friday 20th Jan, 13:00 By [...]

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BABEL MUSIC XP 2023 – Save the date: stands & accreditations booking

8 december, 2022|Babel Music, Dutch World, English, Internationaal, Nieuws|

BABEL MUSIC XP IS BACK ! Marseille - France     Following the successful digital, interactive BEFORE highlights, then two years disrupted by the pandemic, BABEL MUSIC XP is finally coming back to life! From 23 – 25 March 2023 in Marseille, the forum devoted to contemporary world music will relaunch its atypical format again – combining an international professional trade fair and a festival open to the public. Over three days, 2 000 music industry professionals will attend a trade fair, establish business, cultural and social links with major players in the field. At a time when the music industry is undergoing significant change, BABEL MUSIC XP [...]

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