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Trade fair jazzahead! 2021
takes place digitally
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Due to the ongoing
Covid-19 pandemic and the need to provide our exhibitors
and professional participants with planning security, we
have decided to implement large parts of jazzahead! 2021
from April 29 to May 2 in digital form.
This primarily concerns the
trade show and its professional program, but also parts
of the showcase concerts. The implementation is to be
carried out via a professional platform that makes it
possible for exhibitors and professional participants to
take part. We will offer a variety of networking
opportunities, from one-on-one meetings to larger groups
and even for chance encounters. Panels and workshops
will also be realized digitally, with exciting content
that is of relevance and importance to the international
scene. The jazzahead! digital aims to provide the best
possible professional conditions for exchange within the
international scene and the participants, despite the
pandemic, in keeping with the motto “close together from
afar”. Registration for the event will be possible from
mid-January 2021 on
www.jazzahead.de. Prices and conditions can be found
on the website from
mid-December.
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Partner Country Canada 2022
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After careful consideration and as a result of the
official travel ban of the Canadian government for
Canadian citizens to European countries, we and our
Canadian partners have decided to postpone
Canada’s participation as a partner country until
2022. This decision also results in the
cancellation of the festival events, including the
festival opening at Theater Bremen and the gala
concert at Die Glocke. The showcase selection of the
Canadian Night will be carried over to 2022.
As part of the digital jazzahead! 2021, Canada will
have a few surprises in store.
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The showcase selection from the year 2020
will be carried over into 2021. 32 bands from
Germany, Europe and overseas are invited to produce
their showcase concert live in Bremen, if the
situation in April allows. For cases where this is
foreseeable not possible, jazzahead! plans
alternatives, which make an integration of the concert
appearances into the live stream of the jazzahead!
digital possible. The live stream will initially only
be available to registered professional participants
and exhibitors, but the general public will also have
the opportunity to listen to the concerts after a time
delay. Should the public be allowed to attend the
concerts live in April, we will offer tickets and
provide access to the concerts at short notice.
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Stay up to date: the jazzahead! Blog
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To shorten the time until jazzahead! 2021, we
recommend a visit to our jazzahead! Blog. Since
August this year, the blog has been a place where texts,
videos and podcasts revolve around people and topics of
the international jazz scene or where we present
portraits of selected countries and regions and their
jazz scenes. For example, the Who’s Zooming Who
series is an exciting way to get to know current jazz
productions from Germany. In this series we ask two
personalities in loose succession to give their current
recommendations for Jazz made in Germany.
Click here for the jazzahead! Blog.
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Virtual Sessions for registered participants
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Our monthly “Virtual
Sessions” on selected professional topics are aimed
specifically at registered participants of the 2021
edition. The upcoming dates are: –
December 17, 2020, 3 pm CET: Monetization of concerts on
the net: the paid stream – January
28, 2021, 3 pm CET: Brexit – What’s jazz got to do with
it? Access to the Virtual Sessions is
included in a jazzahead! registration. In December and
January, however, we will make the Virtual Sessions
publicly available.
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Free of charge and for all jazz fans – Our monthly
facebook live panels. The next topics are: – 10 December 2020, 3
pm CET: Spotlight on country scenes: Greece In our fifth jazzahead!
live panel we will set the focus on the jazz scene in Greece that 2018
showcasing artist Petros Klampanis described in an interview as “full of muscial
ability, creativity and enthusiasm”. The country is known for its rich cultural
landscape but rather unknown for a significant and export-friendly jazz scene in
an international context. All the more reasons to have a closer look at the
Greek scene! With: Tania Giannouli and Helen Kontos – 14 January
2021, 3 pm CET: Spotlight on selected city scenes II: Cologne On the
next day you can find each of the panels as a video
on our jazzahead! Blog.
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Survey by the German Jazz Union on the effects of the
Corona crisis on jazz musicians
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The German Jazz Union and
its European partners are calling for artists to take
part in a survey on the economic and creative effects of
the Corona crisis on the professional and private lives
of jazz musicians in Europe. The aim is to
obtain concrete data on the situation of jazz musicians
in European countries in order to coordinate and
articulate common political demands at both national and
European level.
The opinion and feedback of all
jazz musicians will help to find a common voice for
jazz musicians in Europe.
Take part in the survey now!
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Deutscher Jazzpreis celebrates its premiere in 2021
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The Deutscher Jazzpreis will be awarded for the first time in June 2021 by
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters. This
music prize from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
and Initiative Musik creates public awareness about outstanding and inspiring
performances from the German and international jazz music scenes.
Applications in eleven categories are possible until January 10, 2021.
More
information can be found here. Special national and international artistic
achievements in jazz will receive awards in 31 categories. 28 of these 31 awards
are endowed with prize monies of at least 10,000 euros.
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For the occasion of fifteenth
anniversary of the jazzahead! Trade Fair, we will conduct
a comprehensive evaluation to determine the significance
of the event for the German jazz scene in an
international context. Bands that have performed at the
German Jazz Expo or the European Jazz Meeting within the
last five years will be interviewed about their career
development. The survey also focuses on the German jazz
scene as a whole: interviews with experts will be
conducted to examine its development since the German
Jazz Expo was founded. We will present the results at
jazzahead! digital 2021.
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The jazzahead! team is sending best regards from Bremen! |
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© M3B / Jörg Sarbach / Jens Schlenker /
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