SPOT has been invited into the international festival-collaboration De Concert! Who amongst many count members such as, the French Les Eurokéennes de Belfort, Spanish Benicassim festival, Swiss Montreux Jazz festival, Belgium Les Nuits Botanique amongst the more than 20 festival collaborators.

Until recently the collaboration between the festivals has been strictly informal, but now it has become an official federation – particularly because as a federation, you have the opportunity to appear stronger when working with political and cultural partners.

And following an invitation to Canada earlier this year SPOT is now an official member.

- SPOT shares the philosophy of the other federation members, which states that we have to draw on local talent, artistic quality and originality, prior to conform US/UK bands and their clean-cut business priorities, says Paul-Henri Wauters, Managing Director of the De Concert!

He further turns our attention to the fact, that already from 1987 and on there was collaboration between the Belgium Festival Botanique and ROSA. ROSA and Botanique have previously collaborated with the French festival Printemps de Bourges. Furthermore SPOT collaborated with Botanique, French Eurokéenes and Spanish Benicassim, for the 2006 project Un-Pop Classic, showcasing four European artists in an exchange between the festivals.

SPOT festivals Managing Director Gunnar Madsen says regarding the membership of De Concert!

- We are of course very happy about the membership, which we see as yet another result of ROSA’s and SPOT’s international networking through the last 20 years. When De Concert! choose us, the reason is, that they want to have a better connection to the Northern European music scene (the German festival Melt Festival has also been included, ed.) and from our perspective the motivation to enter this collaboration is, that we receive a concrete and effective access to the  Central European concert market, says Gunnar Madsen and continues:

- Firstly we are going to collaborate with a huge knowledge-network, where we will be able to disseminate our knowledge about the Danish and Nordic music, while we constantly learn even more about, which grounds the artistic and business conditions in Europe work. Thereafter our ambition is to export music to the other festivals. But everything in the mentioned order Gunnar Madsen points out!

De Concert! has the following members: Art Rock, Les Invites de Villeurbanne, Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats, Furia Sound Festival, Les Tombées de La Nuit, Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, Les Vieilles Charrues, Les 3 Eléphants, La Route du Rock, Rock In Opposition and Les Rockomotives (all French) Dour Festival and
Les Nuits Botanique (both in Belgium), Festival International de Benicassim (Spain), Melt Festival (Germany), Paléo Festival Nyon and Montreux Jazz Festival (Both Swiss), SPOT Festival (Denmark), Sziget Festival (Hungary) and Festival de Musique Emergente (Canada).

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