Exhibitor registration possible until 31 March

If you would like to participate as an exhibitor, you should hurry: these options can only be booked until 31 March. As an exhibitor, you will receive four days of jazzahead! digital including a conference program, showcases, networking with your own extensive company profile including media gallery, video integration, chat and video call function. In addition to the above-mentioned services, the Plus Package offers the opportunity to host your own digital session (panel, presentation). Places for this package are limited and there is currently a waiting list.
As a professional participant, you can still register after 31 March. All participation options and prices can be found here.

Professional program I: jazzahead! panels

Organizers and their concerns are one focus of our professional program: online marketing, streaming income and the development of a playbook for hybrid concerts and industry events during and after the Corona period will be part of the offerings.

We will also focus on the topic of music export: especially regional initiatives and festival associations have taken over national export roles in Southern Europe in recent years. Using Italy and Spain as examples, we will shed light on this topic.

The full programm will soon be available on our website.

Professional program II: Sessions of our exhibitors

Our exhibitors will present their work during their own sessions in the jazzahead! program, among others these will be from national and regional scenes, e.g. from Latvia, Denmark, Catalonia and Canada, Cuba and others. The German Jazz Union will present results of a study on the impact of the Corona pandemic on the professional and personal lives of jazz musicians. The panel of the Initiative Musik will deal with a club study and the peculiarities of the German venue culture.

The entire program will soon be available at www.jazzahead.de.

Trade fair opening with special program: 29 April at 3:30 PM

Also the jazzahead! Opening Ceremony will be held under the motto “Close together from afar”: the jazz world is getting especially close together this year, as we celebrate a cooperation with International Jazz Day for the first time. As a special guest, Dee Dee Bridgewater will speak on behalf of the UNESCO initiative. Further words of welcome will, among others, come from Prof. Monika Grütters, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The ceremony will be musically accompanied by the Markus Stockhausen GROUP.
The opening ceremony of the 15th jazzahead! will be broadcast live on www.jazzahead.de and on the jazzahead! Facebook page for all fans.

jazzahead! X International Jazz Day

Two greats of global jazz, the UNESCO-proclaimed International Jazz Day and the international jazz trade fair jazzahead! are starting a cooperation. With this, we want to join forces and send a positive signal together in these difficult times: in normal times, jazzahead! has an annually changing partner country. With International Jazz Day, the whole world is now our partner. jazzahead! will bring artistic content into the program of the UNESCO action day, so events with various acts will complement each other and celebrate jazz together.

More information will be available soon on our website.

Virtual Session #7: Country portrait Canada

Our Virtual Session today 25 March 2021 at 4 PM CET is all about our 2022 partner country: Canada’s jazz scene is the focus of this 45-minute panel.

Joining us will be Maurin Auxéméry (Montreal International Jazz Festival), Rainbow Robert (Vancouver Jazz Fest), Danielle Lefebvre (Danielle Lefebvre Artist & Concert Agency, Board member CAPACOA), Kodi Hutchinson (Chronograph Records), moderators: Heather Gibson (National Arts Centre), Sybille Kornitschky (jazzahead!).
The panel will be available live to all registrants via Zoom and to anyone interested on the jazzahead! Facebook page.

Greeting from Canada: Kris Davis & Kaie Kellough FYEAR

A special greeting from Canada awaits our fans this year: pianist Kris Davis and Kaie Kellough & Jason Sharp with their new project FYEAR will be represented in the program with concerts from the National Arts Center in Ottowa and let jazz from the future partner country of jazzahead! take over some parts of the program already this year. The concerts will be shown on 29 and 30 April in our livestream for registered participants, on the jazzahead! website and on our Facebook page.

Podcast #3: The Age of DIY: Musicians led labels

Musician-led labels are not a new thing – but in the last decades more and more active musicians have started their own labels.
In the third jazzahead! podcast, Uli Beckerhoff talks to three musicians who have founded their own labels: Robert Landfermann from the Cologne-based label KLAENG records (Germany), Tobias Meier from Wide Ear Records (Zurich, Switzerland) and with Heinrich von Kalnein, founder of Natango Music from Graz (Austria).

Expect individual stories and personal insights into the lives and work of these musicians and their labels.

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