In its third edition, the MaMA Festival & Convention will once again gather international representatives from all sectors of the music industry. Taking place from the 25th – 26th of October in Paris, the festival and convention offers 48 hours packed with 80 french and international artist showcases, 30 conferences, debates, presentations and workshops.
MaMA Facts & Figures 2011
MaMA is a cross-sector platform for the international music industry actors that it offers a gateway to the French music market.
Program features: live, acoustic gigs, international meetings, conferences, workshops, talks, speed-meetings, networking lunches and drinks … in unique and friendly atmosphere as MaMA takes place in Paris, in the red-light district, Pigalle &
Montmartre, heartland of music.
Music industry actors, majors or independent, producers and promoters, venues and festivals, agents and managers, record companies… to meet peers from France and Europe
Media to see the best new and upcoming gigs
Artists to meet a French audience
EDITION 2011 IN NUMBERS
8000 festival visitors
2448 delegates
1200 companies registered from 24 nationalities
155 journalists
67 bands from 15 nationalities
30 seminars & workshops
120 speakers from 14 nationalities
2011 FRENCH PARTNERS
Adami, Cnv, Fcm, Sacem, Spedidam, Prodiss, Synpase, Snep, Sppf, Upfi, Irma, Réseau Printemps, Fair, Rif, Map, MMFF, SMA, live DMA, Le printemps de Bourges, Babel Med Music, Ciné Culture, AF83 media, Greencooper, Région Ile de France, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Institut Français, Zone Franche, Bureaux Export, CGT-SNAM, Plate-forme nationale Café-Culture, Agi-Son, CD1D, Cap Digital, Culture Net.Works, Technopole, Fneijma, Phonopaca, Grands Formats…
2011 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS / EVENTS
Eurosonic (Nl), C/O Pop (De), SPOT (Dk), TIMM (Jp), CMJ (USA), Belin Music Week (De), Reeperbahn festival and convention (De), Waves festival and convention (At), Glimps (Be), Canadian Music Week (Ca), MMOI MEG- Osheaga (Ca), Womex (Dk), Mercat de Musica de Vic (Es),Tallinn Music Week (Ee), Liverpool Sound City (Uk), Sziget (Hu), Itália Waves Festival (It), Medimex – MEI (It), Iceland Airwaves (Is), Sonic Visions (Lx), Don’t Panic Festival (Pl)…
2011 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS / NETWORKS – EXPORT OFFICES
Initiative Muzik (De), VUT (De), Bureau Export Berlin (De), Sound Australia (Au), AMAN (At), EMO (Be), Wallonie-Bruxelles Musiques (Be), Muziel Centrum (Be), Bureau Export Sao Paulo (Br), CIMA (Ca), Catalan Arts ! – ICIC (Es), WAM-BAM (Es), Bureau Export New York (USA), Finnish Music Info Centre – Musex (Fi), PRS For Music (Uk),Bureau Export Londres (Uk), Iceland Music Export (Is), Audiocoop (It), Bureau Export Tokyo (Jp), Music LX (Lx), Music Export Norway (No), MusicXPort NL (Nl), Musica PT (Pt), Swiss Music Export – FCMA (Ch), IMMF, Yourope, Network Europe, EBU…
CONCERTS
(Singer-Songwriter, Electro, Indie, Rock, Hip-Hop, Folk, Pop…)
70 ARTISTS – 48 HOURS OF MUSIC:
48 hours to present an eclectic and quality line-up to festivals, agents, producers, managers, publishers, labels and promoters from all over the world. MaMA also offers a chance to present export/import ready artists to the French audience and media.
8 VENUES:
Cigale, Boule Noire, Trois Baudets, Divan du Monde, Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d’or, Bus Palladium, Machine du Moulin Rouge, Backstage. Each day, 3 or 4 artists will play in each venue.
LIVE IN MONTMARTRE – 20 ARTISTS – 10 UNUSUAL PLACES:
To come to light more artists in unusual places for concerts, Live in Montmartre takes his headquarters in various bars, theatres and galleries at “La Butte Montmartre”. Live in Montmartre guarantees new latest hit in a warm and friendly way.
MaMA 2011 ARTISTS INCLUDED:
ADDICTIVE TV (UK), ALAMO RACE TRACK (Nl), APPLAUSE (Be), BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR (USA), CARAVAN PALACE, CHARLES BRADLEY (USA), DJEDJOTRONIC, LOUIS LA ROCHE (UK), LA MAISON TELLIER, LILLY WOOD & THE PRICK, MAÏA VIDAL, MESPARROW, MIKE LADD (USA), MONOGRENADE (Ca), MORIARTY, MR NO, NADEAH, THE BEWITCHED HANDS…
SEMINARS
MaMA will be a place for debates allowing professionals to question, exchange and claim about the main questions relating to the future of the music industry professions. MaMA will suggest 6 important cross referenced conferences with specifically targeted presentations on themes essential to the music industry.
More than 20 MaMA’s French and international partners will also organize conferences, presentations and
workshops. These will be centres for the sharing and distribution of technical information, and access to experience and practical know how.
MaMA’s 2011 conferences partners included: Yourope, PRS For Music, SPPF, CD1D, Record Store day, Music
Net.works, Sacem, MMFF…
MaMA 2011, 120 SPEAKERS INCLUDED:
Keith Harris(UK), Director of performers’ affairs at PPL
Pierre Lescure (Fr), Former CEO of Canal+ TV Chanel
Gille Babinet (Fr), CA of MXP4
JD Beauvallet (Fr), Editor-in-chief of Les Inrockuptibles
Philippe Cohen-Solal (Fr), member of Gotan Project
Dominic Cook (UK), Company director 33 Seconds
Jules Delattre (Uk), Agent at The Agency Group
Guillaume Déziel (Ca), manager – Music strategist 2.0
Lord Tim Clement-Jones (UK) Liberal Democrat Peer
Tim Renner (De) Director of Motor Entertainment
Eric van Eerdenburg (Nl) director of Festival Lowlands
Denis Ladegaillerie (Fr) founder of Believe Digital…
NETWORKING
MaMA is also an international platform for networking & matchmaking for music industry actors: meetings area, lunches or speed-meetings, parties, delegate’s web area & multimedia tools….
For the second year, Le Trianon venue will welcome the networking village (registration desk, lounge area, information point, media desk and working place, bar and restaurant).
MEETINGS TIME
On Wednesday October 24th – MaMA’s opening
International delegates specific welcoming (MaMA is offering a lunch and bus tour in Paris to discover other places).
Opening parties dedicated to all MaMA’s partners (French and international) and MaMA artists environment.
On Thursday 25th and Friday 26th of October
Each day, an International speed-meeting session will be set up to accelerate exchange between French and international delegates (organized in collaboration with French Bureau Export)
Twice a day, le Trianon host drinks offers by our French and international partners (more than 20 drinks in 2 days).
Delegates after parties will be held in a MaMA venue, from midnight till morning lights.
ONLINE MEETINGS
MaMA opens online specific area delegates to get in touch before the event and to promote delegates companies, activities, artists…