He Vic Live Music Market will return with its thirty-sixth edition, displaying a total of sixty-one concerts from September 18 to 21.
The music sector is in complete change, blurring the borders between genres, betting on new paths of production or even staging. The Mercat adapts to all of this, with an edition in which genres, generations and proposals will be intertwined until there are more than sixty performances. Of these, twenty-nine will be album or live show premieres and seven will be co-produced by MMVV himself.
The Mercat co-productions will feature creators such as Lucia Fumero, Niño de Elche, Carles Marigó, Carlos Bianchini, Blood Quartet & Dongyang Gozupa, Berta Saura or, as part of the 180th anniversary concert of the Vic School of Music and Conservatory, to Est Oest, Germà Aire, Joana Serrat, Ju, La Iaia, Núria Graham, Obeses, Paula Valls, Power Burkas and XY.
As for the bulk of the Mercat, we will highlight Ferran Palau, Els Amics de les Arts, Queralt Lahoz, Joana Serrat, Albert Pla & The Surpise Band, Mama Dousha, Mushkaa, Roba Estesa, Rüdiger, Galgo Lento, Gorka Urbizu, Yexza Lara & Pablo Selnik, Faneka, Namina & The Barbarians , Vic Mirallas, Chicuelo & Marco Mezquida, Maestro Espada, Júlia Colom, Nita, Papa Orbe, Raquel Lúa, Mourn, Lisasinson, Blu Nana, Caamaño & Ameixeiras, Magalí Datzira, Mikel Azpiroz, Fernanda Alemán, Aaron Rux & The Crying Boys, La Barca, Roko Banana, Koko-Jean & The Tonics, Sandra Monfort, Jo Jet & Maria Ribot, Diego Guerrero and many others. The performances will be held in the usual Mercat venues, from the Auditori L'Atlàntida to El Sucre, Plaça Major Vera or Plaça dels Màrtirs, among others.
The guest country of this edition will be Portugal, which will present four proposals in the official programming and will have a delegation of thirty professionals. Your proposals will be Bicho Carpinteiro, Sopa de Pedra, Sús and Tó Trips Trio. As for the rest of the international programming, in addition to Portuguese artists, we will find groups and soloists such as Ada Oda (Belgium), Bombino (Niger), Daniela Pes (Italy), Katom (Switzerland), Robert Bisha (Italy-Lebanon), Natalia Doco (Argentina-France) or Puuluup (Estonia).
On the other hand, the professional fair MMVV Pro Catalan Arts! It will once again bring together almost a thousand accredited people, with a great international presence. It will be at Atlántida in Vic between Wednesday, September 18 and Friday, September 20. There will be professional meetings, speed meetings, pitchings, presentations, meetings and showcases.
And let's not forget the innovation and digital development that will be represented at the Mercat with Barcelona Music Lab on Thursday the 19th and Barcelona Music Tech Hub on Friday the 20th.
The Professional Association of Representatives, Promoters and Managers of Catalonia (ARC) and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce will once again promote a meeting between music producers and investors taking into account the tax novelty according to which deductions can be obtained by investing in cultural industries; and the ICEC Public Area will present the Cultura Jove program, which aims to facilitate access to culture for young people between 18 and 30 years old.
The Catalan Music Academy will organize the activity “Music and plurality. Programming in a Catalonia that is no longer just white”, where they will present the results obtained from a report they have produced related to this issue, and the MMVV Pro Catalan Arts! It will host the annual assembly of ASACC, and annual meetings of APECAT, ARC and XÀFAC, and a work day for the members of Women in the Music Industry (MiM).
In any case, You can expand the information, confirm schedules and venues and even buy tickets for paid concerts. in this same link.
