Americana UK (Hackney, London)

An Americana Music Festival in Hackey, London UK. AMA UK is a 3-day conference, awards show, and music festival. The event features live Americana music from the U.S, Austria, Spain, Denmark, the UK, and more.

Breakout West (Saskatoon, SK)

BreakOut West is an annual music event that includes an immersive, music development conference, music festival hosted by the Western Canadian Music Alliance. The 2024 BreakOut West Festival will be hosted, September 25-29 in Saskatoon, SK.

Come Together (Toronto, ON)

Come Together is an opportunity for export-ready artists from across Canada to meet with, build business relationships, and showcase for key music industry professionals from Toronto and surrounding areas including labels, agents, managers, publishers, music supervisors, publicists, and more. Participants will work directly with their music industry association to identify key music business contacts to invite and meet with. This event has goals beyond showcasing with a push towards industry connections, team building and business strategies for both artists and businesses.

Focus Wales (Wrexham, Wales, UK)

FOCUS Wales is an international multi-venue showcase festival taking place in Wrexham, North Wales, which places the music industry spotlight firmly on the emerging talent that Wales has to offer the world, alongside a selection of the best new acts from across the globe. FOCUS Wales 2023 will mark the festival’s 12th edition, and will welcome over 20,000 people to the town, building upon 2022′s record attendance across a jam-packed weekend of events. There’s no place like Wrexham during FOCUS Wales, as we showcase 250+ artists, fill out a variety of spaces and music venues, using 20 stages, and hosting a full schedule of interactive industry sessions, arts events, and film screenings, throughout the festival..

Folk Alliance International (Montreal, QC)

Folk Alliance International (FAI) is an international arts nonprofit and NEA-designated National Arts Service Organization based in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Founded in 1989, we’re a community of passionate and driven artists, managers, agents, DJs, festivals, record labels, fans, and more. We exist to keep the tradition of folk music thriving through preservation, presentation, and promotion.

Folk Music Ontario (Mississagua, ON)

Folk Music Ontario (FMO) is Canada’s largest provincial organization devoted to the folk, roots, and traditional music community. For over 37 years, FMO and its membership have supported the growth and development of the folk music community and industry across Ontario and Canada through the annual Folk Music Ontario Conference, Developing Artist Program, Festivals’ Retreat, Export Development Program, Peer Sessions, Ontario Folk Music Awards, Folk in Film Festival, Year-round Professional Development Seminars, FMO Community Folk Fest, and more!

Pitch Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Pitch is Scotland’s conference of hip hop and underground culture which takes place in the east end of Glasgow.

The Great Escape (Brighton, UK)

The Great Escape Festival is a four-day music festival held in Brighton and Hove, England every year in May. It is operated by MAMA Festivals and showcases new music from a variety of genres. The festival was founded in 2006 and roughly hosts 500 bands across 30 venues throughout the city.

Viva Sounds (Gotenburg, SE)

The Great Escape Festival is a four-day music festival held in Brighton and Hove, Viva Sounds is a club festival in Gothenburg happening on the last weekend of November. The live program 2024 will consist of 100 shows with 70 bands/artists from all over happening in 15 venues within walking distance from each other. The festival is also an intimate music conference with amazing networking opportunities, built mostly on folks working the international indie circuit. Everybody, anybody, interested in music and ruckus is welcome to be part of it.