Today’s live sector is where it all happens. Everywhere venues and festivals experience an increasing interest from the audience, as well as bands and artists struggle to please audiences, with increasingly intense and spectacular live shows as results. This four-step seminar bring you presentations of festivals’ aim of sharpen their profile these years, the role that public and private funding plays – and why live music apparently has become so hot, that whole towns now brand themselves as Music Cities.

Audrey Guerra kicks off the first part of this seminar.
The European network of festival- and venue organizations Live DMA covers more than 1200 venues in 12 countries and regions. Since 2011, Live DMA has collected data which measures the venues activities and visits, employment and finances, to discover trends and developments in our sector. As coordinator of Live DMA Audrey Guerra (FR) kicks off this seminar by framing the picture; where are the European venues today? 

Meet: Audrey Guerra

Presented by Live DMA, Dansk Live, Promus & SPOT+