{"id":36212,"date":"2024-11-20T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.folkest.com\/?p=36212"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:43:49","slug":"folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkest.com\/en\/folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open &#8211; powered by UPBEAT: the section of Folkest dedicated to emerging international artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The call for participation in <strong>Folkest Showcase<\/strong> powered by <strong>UPBEAT<\/strong> is now open: the section of the<br>Folkest festival program is part of the UPBEAT project, the European platform for World Music Showcases, and dedicated to live shows for emerging international artists in the panorama of this important musical genre. The selected artists will perform, in fact, between <strong>4th<\/strong> and <strong>6th July 2025<\/strong> in <strong>San Daniele del Friuli<\/strong>, in the context of the central initiatives of the Festival. There will be <strong>8 emerging artists<\/strong> chosen on the international scene for the Folkest Showcase, one of the most important Folk Festivals in Southern Europe.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registrations, officially opened on November 20th, <strong>will end on January 20th 2025<\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.folkest.com\/en\/folkest-world-music-showcase\/\">HERE <\/a><\/strong>you can find the regulation and the application form. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is it aimed at?<br><strong>The Folkest Showcases are open to artists\/groups from all European Union countries and from<br>Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North<br>Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia, Tunisia and Ukraine<\/strong>.<br>Each artist or group must propose a <strong>World music project<\/strong>, be able to offer a 40-minute showcase<br>concert, be ready to face an intensive program, which includes meetings, seminars, relationship<br>meetings, Folk Clinic during their stay in San Daniele of Friuli.<br>To participate, musicians must be: under 35, not have made more than 3 albums (the first album must<br>not have been released more than 5 years before application), they must be truly emerging and<br>therefore not have more than 20 thousand followers on social media and therefore they must not have<br>participated in an international tour of more than 10 dates and must not have a contract with an<br>international label. At the same time, they must have held at least one concert in a professional context and have a web presence, although not massive, certainly equally professional (website and social media).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>The selected artists will be communicated on March 21th, 2025<\/strong> on the Folkest website and social<br>channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>A unique and unrepeatable opportunity to be seen and heard by international agents, festival programmers, music curators and the audience of our festival, but also to get feedback from industry professionals, expand their professional relationships, and opportunity to be booked for future shows and participate in training courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>It is important to remember how the <strong>Folkest Showcase<\/strong> &#8211; powered by <strong>UPBEAT<\/strong> are a precious<br>opportunity for artists to access all the festival concerts, network events, study meetings and professional training courses. But also to meet music industry professionals: agents, festivals, musical<br>programmers and curators, journalists and experts and therefore to refine the knowledge of the<br>professional musical environment, the functional relationships to make music a real job: to this in fact,<br>the focus is on seminars and professional training courses reserved for musicians.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Folkest Showcase<\/strong> is a member of <strong>UPBEAT<\/strong> \u2013 European Platform for World Music Showcases. Our showcase program is supported by <strong>Upbeat<\/strong>, the <strong>European Union<\/strong>, the <strong>Friuli Venezia Giulia Region<\/strong> and the <strong>Municipality of San Daniele del Friuli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>For further information: folkestshowcase@folkest.com \u2013 +39 0432 1723158<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call for participation in Folkest Showcase powered by UPBEAT is now open: the section of theFolkest festival program is part of the UPBEAT project, the European platform for World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open - powered by UPBEAT: the section of Folkest dedicated to emerging international artists - Folkest - 2026 edition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open - powered by UPBEAT: the section of Folkest dedicated to emerging international artists The call for participation in Folkest Showcase powered by UPBEAT is now open: the section of theFolkest festival program is part of the UPBEAT project,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.folkest.com\/en\/folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open - powered by UPBEAT: the section of Folkest dedicated to emerging international artists - Folkest - 2026 edition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open - powered by UPBEAT: the section of Folkest dedicated to emerging international artists The call for participation in Folkest Showcase powered by UPBEAT is now open: the section of theFolkest festival program is part of the UPBEAT project,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.folkest.com\/en\/folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Folkest - 2026 edition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FolkestFestival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-20T11:52:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-20T14:43:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Folkest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Folkest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.folkest.com\\\/en\\\/folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.folkest.com\\\/en\\\/folkest-showcase-2025-upbeat-subscriptions-are-open\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Folkest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.folkest.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e96b30eacbfce89c9df38488f3be35b9\"},\"headline\":\"The call for the 2025 Folkest Showcase is open &#8211; 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