With Swiss Music Export to Showcase Festivals in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris & Vienna
It pays to keep in touch with Swiss Music Export! As always, SME will be organising a number of showcases, business mixers and other networking events this year at a number of European showcase festivals. Subscribers to the SME newsletter will not only be the first to be informed of these events. In some cases they will also qualify for discounted ticket packages.
*****
SWISS BUSINESS MIXER „ZÜRICH TRIFFT BERLIN“
Not content with organising a simple “business mixer” event, Swiss MusicExport together with City of Zurich Kultur will be presenting a whole “Swiss afternoon” on September 4th at this year’s Berlin Music Week, complete with panel discussions, showcase performances and – of course! – Raclette.
Switzerland might be a small country, but it is still an important market for European artists in general and German artists in particular. With its great number of festivals and extensive network of live venues, Switzerland’s live scene offers an extremely attractive palette of possibilities. Our panels will present the diverse survival strategies adopted by the various players in the Swiss market. They will focus especially on the question how European artists can profit from these special circumstances.
In the first panel “Switzerland – Land of Festivals”, Swiss festival bookers will present their programming strategies and give an inside view of their respective events. In a second panel, “Meet the Zurich Club Scene”, club promoters from Zurich will be discussing the importance of the music scene for Zurich and the interaction with their Berlin partners.
After the two panels, there will be live sets by the unique, Crammed-signed OY – the duo of Joy Frempong and Lleluja-Ha – and the young band Wolfman (both will also be performing at the m4music night at Postbahnhof). As has become a great and popular tradition, a proper Swiss cheese Raclette will also be served, together with the appropriate libations.
Applicants via Swiss Music Export will receive a special discount for the festival ticket! For more information and to receive the Promotional Code please contact jaska@swiss-music-export.com.
PROGRAM
Thursday, 4 September 2014 – Postbahnhof (Cabuwazi-Zelt)
14.00h “Switzerland – Land of Festivals”
Switzerland has the highest number of festivals per capita in the world. A presentation with background information about some of the most important Swiss festivals.
Guests:
Christof Huber (Open Air St. Gallen)
Marion Meier (Zürich Openair)
Philipp Schnyder & Raphael Rogenmoser (m4music Festival Zürich)
More guests to be announced
15.15h “Meet the Zurich Club Scene”
Bookers and business insiders discuss the ins and outs of the Zurich club scene with Ueli Häfliger, FluxFM
Guests:
Santosh Aerthott (Mainland Music/m4music Festival Zürich)
Alex Dallas (Zukunft/Kauz/Exil)
Artur Schock (Audiolith)
Alfonso Siegrist (Mascotte/Plaza/Kinski)
Ueli Häfliger (Musikchef Flux FM)
16.15h Reception with Swiss Cheese Raclette
16.45h OY
17.45h Wolfman
*****
m4music @ Postbahnhof
Thursday, 4 September 2014
m4music, the Swiss Festival and Conference, is hosting a stage at Postbahnhof. Artists performing are OY, Anna Aaron, Wolfman, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, and a spectacular SURPRISE ACT with roots both in Berlin and Switzerland.
OY, now signed to Belgian label Crammed, are creating their very own style of global storytelling. Anna Aaron is presenting her second album „Neuro“, released in March on Sophie Hunger’s label Two Gentlemen. Helsinki’s Jaakko Eino Kalevi has released his very first songs on labels like Domino (UK) and Beats in Space (USA). The evening opens with Wolfman and their atmospheric blend of Electronics, Pop, and Blues. MTDF (Saalschutz/Audiolith) will round off the night with a DJ Set.
21.00h Wolfman
21.50h Jaakko Eino Kalevi
22.40h Anna Aaron
23.40h Surprise Act
00.30h OY
01.30h MTDF (DJ Set)
*****
Basel-based artist collective/band We Invented Paris will be performing as part of the Berlin Music Week’s First We Take Berlin festival at the Lido on September 4th. The performance time is yet to be confirmed.
Link Berlin Music Week
Link Swiss Business Mixer – Zürich trifft Berlin
Link Panel „Switzerland – Land of Festival“
Link Panel „Meet the Zurich Club Scene“
M4Music at Postbahnhof
Link First We Take Berlin Festival
Link City of Zurich Kultur
Link m4music
Link Wolfman
Link Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Link Anna Aaron
Link OY
Link MTDF
*****
Swiss Music Export at the Reeperbahn Festival
As a long-standing partner of the Reeperbahn Festival, Swiss Music Export will once again make sure Swiss music will be strongly represented at this hugely popular event in Hamburg.
The traditional Swiss Business Mixer will take place this year on Friday, 19 September 2014, 14:00 – 18:00. New, however, is the venue, Cowboy & Indianer. It goes without saying, that once more there will be showcase performances by a number of exciting Swiss artists. The performers this year are Pablo Nouvelle with his highly original marriage of electronica and soul, the travelling gypsy circus that is Kadebostany, and Helvetic post-Krautrockers Klaus Johann Grobe (yes, they’re a duo). This feast of music will be accompanied by an ever popular Raclette and washed down by a glass or two of the fabulous Heida glacier wine.
SME Business Mixer @ Cowboy & Indianer, Reeperbahn 25, Hamburg
14:15 – 14:45
Pablo Nouvelle
15:30 – 16:00
Kadebostany
16:45 – 17:15
Klaus Johann Grobe
For those who prefer to get the serious work out of the way before they allow themselves to enjoy cheese and wine, there’s the Contact Lounge, also taking place at the Cowboy & Indianer. Sponsored by the Fondation SUISA, the Lounge will be open for formal meetings as well as more casual networking and chance encounters from 10:00 to 13:00.
Accreditation to both events is necessary: jaska@swiss-music-export.com
Swiss music at the Reeperbahn Festival is presented by RFV Basel, Fondation SUISA, Swiss Embassy Berlin, and Swiss Music Export.
Applicants via Swiss Music Export will be offered a special discount price for the festival ticket of Euro 135, plus VAT and systems fee.
For more information please contact: jaska@swiss-music-export.com
All bands from the Swiss Music Export business mixer showcase as well as the ever witty and smart Animen will also be appearing as part of the public Reeperbahn Festival program:
Wednesday 17 September
Pablo Nouvelle
Thursday 18 September
The Animen
Friday 19 September
Kadebostany
Friday 19 September
Klaus Johann Grobe
Link Reerbahn Festival
Link Pablo Nouvelle
Link The Animen
Link Kadebostany
Link Klaus Johann Grobe
Link RFV Basel
Link Fondation SUISA
Link Swiss Embassy Berlin
*****
Swiss Music Export at Waves Vienna
Only in its fourth year, the Waves Vienna Music Festival and Conference is still a very young event. However, thanks to its twin location in Vienna and Bratislava it has already established a unique position in the European calendar as a bridge between Western Europe and Eastern countries like Poland, Hungary, Croatia as well as the Czech and Slovak Republics. The next Waves Vienna will take place from 2 – 4 October 2014.
The Swiss Business Mixer event, which will include a showcase performance, is scheduled for Thursday, 2 October.
Applicants via Swiss Music Export will receive a fabulous discount of 50% on the price of a four-day festival ticket!
For more information and to receive the Promotional Code please contact mixer@swiss-music-export.com.
*****
Swiss Music Export at MaMA Paris
This year’s edition of the MaMA Festival will be taking place from 15 – 17 October. First launched in 2009 in Bourges, the Parisian music festival/conference MaMA relocated to the Pigalle district in 2010 and focuses on the French pop and rock market.
As partners of MaMA, Swiss Music Export and Fondation SUISA are able to offer a special discount price to Swiss delegates of 95 Euro (instead of 140 Euro) for the thee-day-pass. This pass allows entry to all MaMA events. Please note: online-booking has already opened for this event.
To receive the promotional code that will enable you to profit from the discount offer please contact adelaide@swiss-music-export.com.
One Swiss band has already been confirmed for MaMA 2014. From Kid will be performing at Les Trois Baudets on Friday 17 October.
Back to the News
