Talents, bands, artists and performers from 13 Central Eastern European countries will perform at the most important festival for discovering new music, Eurosonic Noorderslag in January 2016.
This historic success for the music industry in the CEE region is the result of five years of the Central-Eastern European program talents (CEETEP) for the exchange of talents, which had its final annual meeting, and conference at EXIT festival this year.
CEETEP is a sub-programme of the already successful European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP) that is of major importance in creating an expanding European music industry and aims to promote and stimulate the circulation of artists and repertoire across Europe, by encouraging and facilitating the exchange of a selection of artist.
Together with a total 18 CEETEP festivals in the CEE region and selected CEE media partners, Eurosonic Noorderslag and coorganisers Exit Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Sziget Festival (Budapest, Hungary) developed a scheme for the circulation of CEE artists at the CEETEP festivals and in the European media.
Since the start of the CEETEP programme in 2011 – 2014 a total of 78 shows by 56 CEETEP artists were presented at the 18 CEETEP festivals in 13 countries of the CEE Region.
At the press conference were Fruszina Szep (Director of Festival Coordination & Public Affairs, Berlin Festival), representatives of the EXIT festival, Ivan Milivojev (EXIT Festival founder) and Vladimir Vodalov (Project Manager), as well as representative of the festival Eurosonic Noorderslag, Peter Smidt (Creative Director at Eurosonic Noorderslag).
Watch the video from the press conference here: http://youtu.be/llSxPB7mUIY
For the first time Eurosonic Noorderslag, which has been responsible for kick-starting the careers of European acts like Ásgeir, AURORA, Bastille, Dotan, Ibeyi, James Blake, Jett Rebel, Hozier, Milky Chance, Royal Blood, Seinabo Sey, Vök and many more will have 13 CEE countries in focus. Expectations are high since during the five years of CEETEP project, Festivals and Managers in music industry recognized that this part of Europe is rich with new energy, distinctive sounds, bands that are unique and present the culture of their countries.
Thanks to CEETEP, a important base for cultural exchange has been created, as well as the great opportunity for fresh sounds in contemporary music.
Watch the CETEP teaser video here: http://youtu.be/C7N8GYkWmIU
The 13 focus countries in the CEE group are:
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
All CEETEP Festivals: www.etep.nl/en/festivals/ceetep-festivals/
General info on ETEP & CEETEP: http://www.etep.nl/en/about/
The following media partners support the project:
Gazeta Wyborcza (PL), Polityka (PL), Interia (PL), Polskie Radio Czworka (PL), Metropotam (RO), Radio Belgrade 1 (RS), 370 (LT), LRT Opus (LT), Croatian Radio (HR), 24 sata (HR), TimeART.bg (BG), Radio Capital FM (LV), TVNET.lv (LV), Radio FM (SK), Týžden (SK), Latvian Radio 1 (LV), Full Moon Magazine (CZ), Radio Wave (CZ), Delo (SI), Radio Terminal (SI), MR2 Petöfi Rádió (HU), Neston (HU), Antenna 5 Radio (MK), Telegraf (MK), On.net (MK), Raadio 2 (EE), Rada7.ee (EE), Lietuvos Rytas (LT), SME (SK), Teraz Rock (PL).The CEE-focus will be organised by: Fruzsina Szép (HU/DE), Exit (RS), Open’er Festival (PL), Pohoda (SK), Waves Bratislava (SK), Talinn Music Week (EE), Guna Zucika (Creative Industries Council at the Ministry of Culture, Latvia) (LV) and Eurosonic Noorderslag (NL).
Eurosonic Noorderslag will take place from 13th to 16th January 2016. More information here:
http://www.eurosonic-noorderslag.nl/en/
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