A showcase festival combines music festival with industry meeting. In contrast to mainstream festivals, they target mostly people from the music industry. Newcomers get the opportunity to present themselves to a professional audience. Most showcase festivals are accompanied by a music conference, where industry professionals present the latest information about the business in panels, keynotes or workshops. Showcase festivals thus have a gatekeeper role. The following overview should give an overview of the most important international showcase festivals and other relevant events for the music industry, but does not claim to be complete. As many showcase festivals are currently changing their dates and formats due to Corona, we recommend visiting the respective websites to find out the current dates and band application deadlines. EUROPE BULGARIA Spike Showcase Festival Plovdiv, Bulgaria spikeshowcase.com/ DENMARK SPOT Festival Aarhus, Denmark http://spotfestival.dk/ GERMANY c/o pop Cologne, Germany https://c-o-pop.de jazzahead! Bremen, Germany www.jazzahead.de Pop-Kultur Berlin Berlin, Germany www.pop-kultur.berlin Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany www.reeperbahnfestival.com ESTONIA Tallinn Music Week Tallinn, Estonia https://tmw.ee/ FINNLAND Music & Media Finland Tampere, Finnland https://musiikkimedia.fi/en/ FRANCE Le Printemps de Bourges Bourges, France http://www.printemps-bourges.com/ MaMA Festival & Convention Paris, France www.mamafestival.com IRELAND Ireland Music Week Dublin, Ireland http://hwch.net/ ICELAND Iceland Airwaves Reykjavík, Iceland https://icelandairwaves.is ITALY Arezzo Wave Arezzo, Italy www.arezzowave.com Linecheck Festival Milan, Italy http://www.linecheckfestival.com/ MEDIMEX – International Festival & Music Conference Taranto, Italy www.medimex.it LITHUANIA What’s next in Music? Vilnius, Lithuania https://wnim.lt/ LUXEMBOURG Sonic Visions Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg http://www.sonicvisions.lu/ NETHERLANDS Amsterdam Dance Event Amsterdam, Netherlands www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl Eurosonic Noorderslag Groningen, Netherlands www.esns.nl Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Netherlands http://leguesswho.nl/ New Skool Rules Rotterdam, Netherlands https://www.newskoolrules.com/ NORTHERN MACEDONIA PIN Music Conference Skopje, Northern Macedonia https://pinconference.mk/ NORWAY by:larm Oslo, Norway https://bylarm.no/ Sørveiv Festival Kristiansand, Norway https://www.sorveiv.no/ Trondheim Calling Trondheim, Norway https://trondheimcalling.no/ AUSTRIA Waves Festival Vienna, Austria www.wavesvienna.com POLAND Enea Spring Break Posen, Poland www.spring-break.pl/ PORTUGAL MIL – Lisbon International Music Network Lisbon, Portugal http://millisboa.com/ Westway LAB Guimarães, Portugal www.westwaylabfestival.com ROMANIA Mastering the Music Business Bucharest, Romania https://masteringthemusicbusiness.ro/en/home-en/ RUSSIA V-ROX EXPO Vladivostok, Russia http://vrox.org/ SWEDEN Future Echoes Nörrköping, Sweden https://futureechoes.se/ Live at Heart Örebro, Sweden http://liveatheart.se/ Live at Heart Southeast Kalmar, Sweden www.southxeast.se/ Viva Sounds Gothenburg, Sweden https://vivasounds.se/ SWITZERLAND m4music Zurich/Lausanne, Switzerland www.m4music.ch SERBIA Indirekt Belgrad, Serbia http://indirekt.rs/ SLOWAKIA Sharpe Festival Bratislava, SlowakIA http://sharpe.sk/ SLOWENIA MENT Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slowenia www.ment.si SPAIN BIME International Music Conference & Festival Bilbao, Spain www.bime.net International Music Summit Ibiza Ibiza, Spain https://www.internationalmusicsummit.com/ Mercat de Música Viva de Vic Vic, Spain www.mmvv.cat Monkey Week Sevilla, Spain https://www.monkeyweek.org/ Primavera Sound / Primavera Pro Barcelona, Spain www.primaverasound.com SÓNAR / SÓNAR +D Barcelona, Spain www.sonar.es CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Music Crossroads Hllubina, Czech Republic www.crossroadsmusic.cz/ Nouvelle Prague Prag, Czech Republic https://nouvelleprague.com/ HUNGARY Budapest Showcase Hub Budapest, Hungary www.budapestshowcasehub.com UNITED KINGDOM Brighton Music Conference Brighton, UK www.brightonmusicconference.co.uk FOCUS Wales Wrexham, UK www.focuswales.com International Festival Forum (IFF) London, UK https://iff.rocks/ Liverpool Sound City Liverpool, UK https://www.soundcity.uk.com/ The Great Escape Brighton, UK https://greatescapefestival.com/ Wide Days Edinburgh, UK www.widedays.com XpoNorth Festival Inverness, UK https://xponorth.co.uk/ VARYING WOMEX varying www.womex.com NORTH AMERICA CANADA BreakOut West Whitehorse, Canada www.breakoutwest.ca Canadian Music Week Toronto, Canada https://cmw.net/ CINARS Montréal, Canada https://cinars.org/en/biennale/biennale-cinars-2020 M for Montréal Montréal, Canada www.mformontreal.com MUTEK Montréal, Canada (and others) montreal.mutek.org Pop Montréal Montréal, Canada https://popmontreal.com/ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Folk Alliance International Conference New Orleans, USA https://folkconference.org/ ISPA Congress – International Society for the Performing Arts New York, USA www.ispa.org New Colossus Festival New York City, USA https://www.newcolossusfestival.com/ SXSW – South by Southwest Austin/Texas, USA www.sxsw.com SOUTH AMERICA Porto Musical Recife, Brasil www.portomusical.com.br SIM – Semana Internacional de Música de São Paulo São Paulo, Brasil www.simsaopaulo.com.br ASIA International Music Showcase Festival Tel Aviv & Jerusalem https://musicshowcaseil.com Mu:Con Seoul, South Korea http://mucon.kr/ Shibuya Showcase Fest Shibuya, Japan https://www.shibuyashowcasefest.com/ Tokyo International Music Market Tokyo, Japan https://www.timm.go.jp/en/ Wise Beijing, China https://www.wisenotwise.com/ AFRICA Africa Rising Music Conference Johannesburg, South Africa www.africarisingmusicconference.com/ The Music Imbizo Durban, South Africa http://www.themusicimbizo.co.za/ Visa for Music Rabat, Marocco www.visaformusic.com/en/ AUSTRALIA Australian Music Week Cronulla, Australia www.australianmusicweek.com BIGSOUND Brisbane, Australia www.bigsound.org.au/ CALENDAROF EVENTS CONTACT Neus López head of department Julia Waldmann project management export and tour grants