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 ESNS 2023

16 Irish Acts To Showcase at ESNS, Groningen

CMAT nominated for a MUSIC MOVES EUROPE AWARD 2023

ESNS will take place next week in Groningen, Netherlands, and 16 Irish acts will be showcasing across three nights at the festival. A most welcome return after two years online. Every year, the international music industry descends on the city on the hunt for artists and bands to book for their festivals and venues.

The full list of Irish acts selected for this year's festival are:

Ailbhe Reddy / Bricknasty / Caleb Kunle / Dea Matrona

Kysny / KhakiKid / Gurriers / M(h)aol

modernlove. / New Pagans / SELLÓ / Somebody’s Child

Sprints / The Mary Wallopers / The Scratch / 49th & Main

Music from Ireland, the Irish Music Export Office funded by Culture Ireland, co-ordinate the Irish presence and promote the Irish acts to the over 4,000 delegates in attendance. The event also brings together all the national radio stations from around Europe under the European broadcasters’ banner (EBU), of which RTE2FM is a prominent member. This year SELLÓ is the station’s chosen artist to be presented by them at the festival.

CMAT is nominated for a MUSIC MOVES EUROPE AWARD 2023, one of 15 nominated international artists, and is eligible to win one of 7 Music Moves Europe Awards to be presented at the Awards Ceremony next Thursday 19 January. Previous Irish recipients include Fontaines D.C., Inhaler, Denise Chaila and more. (Unfortunately, CMAT is unable to perform at the festival as she’s resting her voice as per doctor’s orders).

“ESNS (Eurosonic) and Ireland have an incredibly productive history together, with Irish acts receiving multiple European festival bookings and booking awards each year.  It is an essential step for Irish artists to build their audience and footprint in Europe and a key target event for all emerging and developing Irish artists and their teams. This year marks our second largest number of invites to the event (the most was in 2011 when we were spotlight Country), in part thanks to ESNS bookers attending Ireland Music Week annually” - Angela Dorgan, Director MFI

Angela will be taking part in four panels whilst in attendance, in particular a discussion on Universal Basic Income for Artists. Further info via https://esns.nl/en/conference/

Founded in 2005, Culture Ireland - part of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht - works to generate international opportunities for Irish artists and supports Irish artists as they gain global contracts and develop their careers. In 2017, Culture Ireland reached 3.5 million live audience members and 7 million online viewers through the 450 Culture Ireland supported events presented in over 50 countries by Irish artists. 

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SXSW 2023

 
 

The Full Irish Breakfast Location: Please click here for a dropped pin.

MUSIC FROM IRELAND

11 Irish Acts To Showcase at SXSW, Austin Next Month, 13th-19th March
 

SXSW will take place this month in Austin, Texas, and 11 Irish acts will be showcasing across the festival. Every year, thousands of international music delegates descend on the city on the hunt for new artists and bands.

 

The full list of Irish acts selected for this year's festival are:

Ailbhe Reddy / Aoife Nessa Frances / Junk Drawer / Lauren Ann

M(h)aol / milk. / modernlove. / Silverbacks

Somebody’s Child / Sorcha Richardson / The Scratch

 

Music from Ireland, the Irish Music Export Office funded by Culture Ireland, will present two showcases at the festival. The night-time official showcase will take place at the Velveeta Room on Thursday 16th March. The welcomed return of the Full Irish Breakfast will take place the next day in 601 Congress Avenue, hosted with TDR. RSVP to The Full Irish Breakfast here.

Exact directions to The Full Irish Breakfast on 17th of March: Please click here for a dropped pin.

Irish Bands at SXSW

Full list of gigs

Ailbhe Reddy
15th March - Lefty’s Brick Bar
16th March - 10pm -The Velveeta Room
17th March - 2.20pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

Aoife Nessa Frances
15th March - 9:00pm - Central Presbyterian Church
17th March - 1.10pm Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue
17th March - 9:00pm - Lucille

Junk Drawer
16th March - 2.10pm British Music Embassy Showcase, The Courtyard - 208 West 4th St, 78701
17th March - 4.40pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue
18th March - 9pm - BBC 6Music's Chris Hawkins Awesome Friends Showcase - Sellers Underground 

Lauren Ann
14th March - 11:10pm - Las Perlos
17th March - 12pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

M(h)aol
15th March — Mohawk Indoor
16th March - 8:00pm — 8:40pm - The Velveeta Room
17th March - 3.30pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

milk.
17th March - 2.55pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue
17th March - 10:00pm - Esther Follie’s

modernlove.
16th March - 9:00pm - The Velveeta Room
17th March - 1.45pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue
17th March - 9:10pm - Parish

Silverbacks
16th March - 1:00am - The Velveeta Room
17th March - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

Somebody’s Child
14th March - 11:00pm — 11:40pm - Shangri-La
17th March - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

Sorcha Richardson
16th March - 11:00pm — 11:40pm - The Velveeta Room
17th March - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue

The Scratch
16th March - 12 midnight - Music From Ireland showcase, Velveeta Room
17th March - 5.50pm - Full Irish Breakfast at 601 Congress Avenue
18th March - 11pm - SXSW Presents showcase
18th March - 5:00pm - International Day Stage

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 c/o pop 2023

 
 
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 The Great Escape 2023

 

RSVP to the MFI Brunch at Kooks on Thurs 11th May, 10.30-11.45am info@firstmusiccontact.com

 
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Primavera Pro, Barcleona

Music From Ireland delegate mixer 12.30-1.30pm at CCCB, 1st June

https://www.primaverasound.com/en/primavera-pro-2023/cocktail-party-by-music-from-ireland-2023

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Music From Ireland, run by First Music Contact and funded by Culture Ireland, & AIM Ireland are pleased to announce the music professionals from across Ireland who have been selected for A2IM Indie Week In New York City!

A2IM Indie Week is a three-day international conference and networking event aimed at maximizing the global impact of independent music in New York City. Featuring keynotes, panels, exclusive networking sessions, and more, A2IM Indie Week has historically drawn participants from over 30 countries. This year, it takes place June 13th - 15th.

In late March, we put out a call for Irish music industry professionals to apply to have their A2IM registration fee and up to €500 in travel costs per person covered through joint sponsorship from AIM Ireland and Music From Ireland, through Culture Ireland.

Music From Ireland welcomed applications from all the below members of the Irish music industry, including AIM Ireland members:

  • Managers

  • Independent Labels

  • Independent Publishers / Music Supervisors / Sync Companies

  • Independent Promoters

  • Music Producers

A2IM have now selected the successful applicants who will be networking with the international music industry at the event in June!

Read more about the 2023 Irish Music Industry Professionals selected for A2IM below.

Angela Dorgan

First Music Contact / Ireland Music Week / Music From Ireland

 

Angela Dorgan is the CEO and founder of First Music Contact (FMC), the Arts Council-funded national resource organisation for musicians, which run the Irish Music Export Office, Music From Ireland, the online music portal BreakingTunes and the annual music industry showcase Ireland Music Week. FMC have recently established an association of independent music, AIM Ireland.

Angela is Vice President of EMEE, the European Music Exporters Exchange, where she was part of a group that devised a global music export strategy for European Music for the European Commission. Angela provides mentoring support to music and export offices around the world. She has a Masters Degree in Sociology from UCC and believes that Arts and Culture are an essential part of the life of every citizen.

Angela recently stepped down as chair of the National Campaign for the Arts, During her time as chair, she was instrumental in lobbying for the pilot Scheme for Basic Income for Artists as well as lobbying government for increased funding for the Arts and Entertainment sector during the Covid 19 crisis.

Angela is a regular contributor and expert voice on music and arts in the Irish media. She also played the drums. Badly. (her words) 

 
 

Gill Dooley

AIM Ireland

 
 

A proven senior leader in music, Gill Dooley is an independent artist manager, music consultant, mentor and the CEO of AIM Ireland, Ireland's national association for independent music.

Bringing more than 20 years experience with her, Gill's solution driven approach has seen AIM Ireland grow into a leading advocacy organisation since she took the helm in 2021. Gill began her career with EMI, and spent time working with Irish indie RMG Chart, New Zealand's TWL and Hot Press before joining Universal Music in 2007.

She spent 11 years as Director of Digital & Business Development before branching out on her own in 2018 to focus on an Enterprise Ireland funded consultancy, and launch her career as an artist manager to rising pop star Aimée. Gill is a mentor for Keychange and Minding Creative Minds, and also sits on the IMPALA board.

 
 
 

A2IM 2023 Irish Music Industry Professionals

 
 

Alan Hennessey

Bohemia Records / Crashed Music Group

Aine Cronin-McCartney

BBC Radio Ulster / Bloom Records

 
 

Alan Hennessy is co-founder of indie label and publisher Bohemia Records, home to A Lazarus Soul and Joe Chester, and is a director of Crashed Music Group managing a vast catalogue of Irish music and providing label services to a range of other labels and self releasing artists.

Alan also assisted in the formation of AIM Ireland as a member of its founding steering committee and is a long serving director on the boards of record label trade body IRMA and recording rights collecting society PPI.

Aine Cronin-McCartney is a freelance radio presenter, producer, artist manager and label manager. A regular voice on BBC Radio Ulster’s ATL Introducing show, Aine has played a key role in helping to champion the best new acts and bands emerging from across Ireland & supporting artists across an array of genres. Alongside her presenting work, Aine has sat on the panel of the NI Music Prize and the AIM Music Awards along with speaking at industry panels and showcasing events such as Output, Belfast. Following an internship at Northern Ireland’s largest management company, Champion Sound Music, where Aine worked across campaigns for award winning artists Joshua Burnside and Ryan Vail, she proceeded to set up her own business Flux Music Management where she manages indie-pop artist Reevah.

In 2021, Aine started at Faction Records as an A&R and label assistant working across some of the labels biggest releases and supporting on producer management including artists across NI, ROI, and the UK such as Sorcha Richardson, James Vincent McMorrow, Morning Midnight, Lauren Ann and others. In 2022 Aine launched her own label imprint under Faction Music called Bloom Records, a new independent Irish label with a focus on fresh, engaging, and vibrant releases that will centre artists' own creativity at its core where she is currently working with artists Lydia Ford and Reevah. Aine is also a co-founder and active member of Safe in Sound, an initiative set up to provide a safe space for underrepresented voices in the Northern Irish music sector.

 
 

Ann Marie Shields

AMS Records / BIMM Institute / Minding Creative Minds

Colm Hanley

Re:set Management

 
 

Ann Marie Shields is a director of Minding Creative Minds, a 24/7 wellbeing, career mentoring and professional advice service, offered free to the Irish creative sector.

She is Head of Careers, Industry, Events and Guests at BIMM Institute Dublin, having been on the team that originally secured University accreditation prior to launch of the college.  She was on the steering committee for 3 years and interim board that launched AIM Ireland and she has her own AMS Records label and management company with new albums this year by Side 4 Collective, SELK, and Vernon Jane.  

Ann Marie has worked extensively in the music industry working closely with bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Rumer, Rob Ells/PJ Harvey, Mercury Rev, Rollerskate Skinny, Martina Topley Bird, Marianne Faithful, Laika, The Bug, MAD LION, Snake River Conspiracy and Charlotte Hatherley (ASH/Bat for Lashes). She spent 6 years at Warner Bros. flagship label Reprise Records as UK A&R manager, and 9 years as managing director of Warner imprint Morpheus Records.

Ann Marie moonlights as a film music supervisor with www.muscic4movies.org . Films she has worked on include critically acclaimed ‘Blue Iguana’ featuring Oscar winner Sam Rockwell; Joe Meek biopic ‘Telstar’; Raindance winner ‘Mr. In-Between’; Savannah winner ‘The Kid’; Sean Bean thriller ‘Cleanskin’; and recently released feature ‘Vengeance Is Mine’. She is currently attached to Hadi Hajaig’s ‘All Mine Enemies’ which is in pre-production.

Colm is an artist manager and marketing and communications professional with over 17 years of experience, specialising in music and live events.

Through Re:set Management, Colm works with folk singer-songwriter Laura Elizabeth Hughes, a songwriter from Dublin who’s music career has taken her on a journey from modest beginnings performing covers on her own YouTube channel in 2012 to attracting a global audience of over 2.6 million viewers. With her debut album due for release in 2023, Re:set are working on a series of tour dates and new releases for the artists in the coming months.

With over 10 years’ experience working in live events with MCD Productions, Colm led communications campaigns for some of the world’s biggest stars performing in Ireland at venues including Croke Park, Slane Castle, Phoenix Park and 3Arena. Now an Associate Director with Creative Marketing company, Colm works with major brands such as Three Ireland and Irish Distillers and has led a number of projects such as the launch of Three’s sponsorship of 3Olympia Theatre, Electric Picnic, 3Arena and their Made by Music campaigns where he has worked with artists such as Narolane (Denise Chaila, God Knows, MuRli), Saint Sister, Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Sorcha Richardson and David Kitt amongst others. Colm also works across a varied portfolio including music related clients on strategy, development and media relations such as BIMM Dublin and R.A.A.P. and is a member of the board of Carlow Arts Festival.

 
 

Elaine McCann

Music Consultant, Mentor, Campaign- and Digital Distribution Manager

Eric Fraad

Heresy Records

 
 

Elaine McCann, a music consultant, mentor, campaign and digital distribution manager with 15+ years experience in the music industry at an international level. Now based in Dublin, Elaine has vast knowledge of the Irish, UK and Canadian markets. She worked the festival and live circuit in Toronto for 5+ years, producing music industry showcases and networking events, with a high emphasis on marketing, management and artist development.

Elaine has been working within the digital distribution landscape for the past 10 years and has in-depth experience working with record labels and artists alike, having worked directly with some of the UK and Ireland’s most notable independent record labels.

At the beginning of 2023 Elaine took the leap to start her own label services and music marketing initiative. This venture has already proven to be a success, with organic interest from artists and music industry professionals. She has identified a gap in the Irish independent music sector and envisions significant growth throughout the remainder of 2023 and the upcoming year.

A native of New York City and longtime resident of Ireland, Eric Fraad is known on both sides of the Atlantic as a cultural entrepreneur, artistic director and a director of film, opera and theatre.

Eric is the founder and CEO of Heresy (Heresy Records and Heresy Films), a Dublin-based media boutique that creates innovative recordings, films and music videos. Heresy Records specializes in early music, traditional, contemporary classical, electronic and experimental crossovers between classical and popular genres. Heresy’s recording of The Wexford Carols reached No.1 on the Billboard and Amazon charts.

Heresy Records has released over 30 critically acclaimed albums.

 
 

Jonathan Pearson

Islander / Quiet Lights / New Music Dublin / INNI

Luke Kavanagh

Egg Twelve Records / The Grand Social

 
 

Jonathan Pearson is an Irish arts manager based in Los Angeles. Jonathan set up Islander in 2017, an artist management and creative producing company, which now has four managers and a roster of eight artists. Jonathan is the Director of Quiet Lights, a folk festival in Cork which takes place every year, and is Festival Producer of New Music Dublin, Ireland's premiere contemporary classical music festival.

Aside from Islander, Jon is a core member of INNI, an Icelandic music company based in Reykjavík, founded by renowned film composer Atli Örvarsson, arts manager Colm O’Herlihy and entertainment lawyer Willie Ryan. INNI have provided music for films and TV shows for the likes of Netflix, Apple TV, HBO and more.

Luke Kavanagh is the founder & director of Egg Twelve Records, a boutique independent artist management agency and label house dedicated to providing artists with creative and professional support systems wherever they may require.

Having began his career interning with London-based ATC Management, Luke is now based in Dublin; operating as an events booker for Dublin's The Grand Social, alongside other production roles such as promoter representation and tour/production management.

 
 

Maya Cullen Petrovic

Jawdropper / BIMM Institute Dublin

Solomon Adesyian

Trust It Entertainment / Coum Technologies Ltd

 
 

Maya Cullen Petrovic is an artist manager and co-director of Jawdropper Music, a management company with a roster of clients in Ireland, the UK and Germany, including acts signed to major labels and publishers, indies and unsigned artists. In 2020 Jawdropper launched their own label, Jawdropper Records, with global distribution through InGrooves.

Jawdropper also handle PR in Ireland and the UK for Irish and internationals acts with strong support achieved across the Irish and UK market in radio, press and editorial coverage for their clients. 

Maya has worked in the Arts for over 17 years, & has a broad range of experience, from running festivals, to artist development, music PR and Music Business education, as she currently hold the Artist Manager lecturing position in BIMM Dublin. Maya is also an innovator on the 2023 Keychange programme, one of a cohort of 74 artist and innovator participants from 12 countries to lead global movement for gender equity in music.

My name is Solomon and I'm an entrepreneur within the music/entertainment sector. I’m based in Ireland.

Trust It Entertainment is my music company and we have recently done an international deal as a label with Warner Music Group International and Atlantic Records UK the first of its kind in Irish history!

Coum Technologies Ltd is my music tech startup that I’m streamlining the traditional setup of the music industry I make life easier for my industry professionals via tech solutions/products. We’re a one stop shop!

Also worked as music consultant for brands such Spotify, YouTube, Guinness, Jameson, Near Protocol and more. I’m a hustler at heart and a lover of music in soul!

 
 

For more information on A2IM have a look at their Website, Twitter & Instagram.

Music From Ireland is supported by Culture Ireland

 
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Reeperbahn 2023

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MFI showcase at IFF

For more info on IFF go here.

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Iceland Airwaves 2023

 
 
 
 

KNEECAP - Friday

CALEB KUNLE - Friday

SPRINTS - Saturday

+ PASTICHE via the Keychange programme

 
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