Slovenia in the Spotlight at the Waves Vienna Festival and Conference

Last year's second edition of the event featured 13 venues and recorded 10.000 visitors, more than 500 delegates from 30 countries and 139 musicians from 27 countries, which made it the largest such event in Central Europe.

The festival, which focuses on electronic music genres and on independent productions of pop and rock music, promotes networking as well as musical exchanges with selected international partners, in particular partners from Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Among its partners are also the Slovenian music information centre - SIGIC and the Slovene Music Week (STG).

Slovenia in the Spotlight

This year's festival and conference will shine the spotlight on Slovenia. This achievement is the result of cooperation and successful international partnerships carried out by SIGIC and its domestic partner the Slovene Music Week (STG) and are the accomplishment of an important target to promote Slovene music abroad.

The Focus of Waves Vienna includes performances by a great number of musicians from the country in the spotlight; some of the performers will also perform at special presentations intended for the conference delegates. Many conference presentations will focus on Slovenia’s music sector, cultural scene and its business aspects. The thematic meetings at the conference will provide the music professionals from Slovenia with the opportunity to establish business contacts and further cooperation with other participants.

Waves Music Conference

The music conference, which will be organized by mica, Austrian Music Information Centre, on Thursday and Friday, 3 to 4 October, will provide the stage for a thematic presentation of the Slovene music sector in three parts: Slovenia’s music and music scene in general, its music market and new ways and possibilities for cooperation with Slovene stakeholders in the field of music.

Performances by Slovene artists at Waves Vienna 2013

Various stages will host performances by all together nine Slovene music ensembles, to be confirmed and publicly announced in June.

BRIEFLY ABOUT WAVES VIENNA FESTIVAL AND SLOVENIA IN THE SPOTLIGHT:

• Waves Vienna Festival is Vienna’s first club and showcase festival and the only one of its kind in Austria.
• Waves Vienna Music Conference is the biggest such conference in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Waves Vienna concerts present numerous musicians, from electronic musicians to independent pop and rock productions from the entire world, among them the already established groups as well as outstanding new talents.
• A specialty of the festival is networking between East and West Europe.
• The festival and the conference target music consumers and music professionals from Central Europe, including Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria.
• Thanks to cooperation and partnerships with institutions and festivals from this region, a professional network, which benefits all the delegates of the Waves Vienna Festival, has been set up.
• Visitors of Waves Vienna Festival 2012: 10.800 (up by 35% in comparison to 2011)
• Delegates of the conference in 2012: 517 professional participants from 29 countries (up by 97% in comparison to 2011)
• Planned Slovene events at the Waves Vienna Conference:
- three presentations (lectures) exclusively about the Slovene music scene,
- focused and professional networking of Slovene delegates with delegates from other countries,
- professional meetings and networking with all delegates and a performance by a Slovene group,
- performances by 8 to 9 Slovene music groups; their names are to be confirmed and announced in June.

MORE:
Short video clip of Waves Vienna 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CWo94hnT0

Short TV report on Waves Vienna 2012 (Zeit im Bild, in German):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3RqkUOde0

Waves Vienna
http://www.wavesvienna.com/en/

Slovene Music Week
http://www.stg.si/
 

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