EUROPAVOX History

 

Since 2006, EUROPAVOX Festival (Clermont-Ferrand/France) is entirely dedicated to the promotion of European Musical Diversity.

With a strong experience and a European Network, EUROPAVOX Festival ambition is to talk about Europe in a positive way, with a human approach and prove that « Unity in Diversity » can apply to young Europeans in creative fields such as music.

 

EUROPAVOX cooperation project led by EUROPAVOX aims to develop this approach at a European level.

 

EUROPAVOX Project brings together over 4 years, 7 European Partners of 7 different countries around three main activities, each contributing complementary to promote European musical diversity, professionalization and innovation in professional practices and public uses.

EUROPAVOX cooperation project has been rewarded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

 

 

CONCRETE AND INNOVATIVE ACTIONS

 

EUROPAVOX.COM : THE FIRST EUROPEAN ONLINE MEDIA

Organizes visibility and accessibility of over 1,500 European bands on the web, both for professionals of music industry and general public.

Development of the first website dedicated to the European musical diversity, offering a collaborative multicultural, programming updated regularly by professionals and journalists in every European country.

 

7 FESTIVALS, POPULAR AND FESTIVE

Providing on stage a selection of 400 European bands to bring together European youth around an international and interactive live music experience.

7 annual 1 to 4 days festivals, produced by the each partner in collaboration with their local ecosystems, an exclusively European programming that meets standards of excellence and huge diversity of nationalities.

 

COACHING TO EXPORT FOR A SELECTION OF EUROPEAN BANDS

Demonstrating a high export potential, in order to develop sustainable careers and international activities

A selection of musical bands able to lead a career to export, an artistic coaching in a European circuit, one or more musical events gathering the 7 selected bands inside and outside the borders of Europe.

 

AND transversally to the 3 dimensions of the cooperation project:

A SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION AND CREATIVITY

Cooperating with digital players in order to anticipate new uses and develop new digital services and resources.

A partnership with digital start-up incubators, a space for experimentation offering a selection of start up to test their prototypes on each dimension of the cooperation project and in an international environment, a space for creativity bringing together professionals, startups and journalists in order to stimulate the expression of new needs, identification of new uses and innovative devices.

 

2016 : Main Actions & Results

 

• 7 FESTIVALS
  • EUROPAVOX Clermont-Fd, June 1 to 5
  • EUROPAVOX Zagreb powered by INmusic, June 20 to 22
  • EUROPAVOX Bologna powered by Estragon, June 23&24 + July 16th
  • EUROPAVOX Vilnius powered by Loftas, September 2to3
  • EUROPAVOX Vienna powered by WUK, November the 4th
  • EUROPAVOX Athens powered by FUZZ, December the 10th
  • EUROPAVOX Brussels powered by Le Botanique, December 16 & 17

 

• 87 bands
• 25 different Nationalities
• More than 100.000 attendance

 

• STARTUP Sandbox, a space for experimentation open to innovative Startups
  • 27 innovative startups applying in 2016
  • 6 Startups have been pitching their project to the First Pitch Session in EUROPAVOX Brussels 2016!
  • 2 STARTUPS SELECTED for the relevancy of their project regarding EUROPAVOX Activities and their innovative potential.
    • ForTunes (AT) Analytics for musicians, DJ’s and producers
    • GoGoSound (IT) A carpooling app for music addicted 

 

• EUROPAVOX Online Media
  About Cool European Bands, Great Stories and Music Business
  100% dedicated to European Musical Diversity

 

HUNDREDS OF BANDS highlighted each year

(31 European countries I Rock/Pop, Hip Hop, Electro, Songwriting)

Straightforward biographies, multimedia contents and fresh news about great bands all over Europe.

BUSINESS
Longer articles related to the European music business and market(s), on a national or transnational level (analysis, market reports, interviews…)
Series of articles : “How To”, “Best in Class”, “New Deals”, “Tech Tech Tech”, etc.

FEATURES
Longer articles related to artistic issues/trends/scenes…
Series of articles : “What’s the story”, “Rock the EU”/”Anarchy in the EU”/”Block parties”, “Panorama”, etc.

SIDE STORIES
FUN, pop culture, lifestyle, stupid (good) ideas, music but with a very particular angle, subjective travel guides, etc.

TOPS
We all love making lists, don’t we?
Let’s make them!

PLAYLISTS
Same: people love playlists, and they’re a great way to present a broad panorama of things