According to Pacheco, this initiative aims to "bring culture to the street and that all Murcia can access it without difficulty" |
Big up!
will return the first Saturday in October to fill the places of the town of musical performances thanks to the collaboration between the Institute of Artistic Expression Southeast, the Department Jobs, Tourism and Culture, the department of Culture of the University of Murcia, the Foundation Author Room and REM.
A total of six groups will form part of the programming of this third edition that will "show his talent and make themselves known to experts of record by street concerts in strategic points of the city without any electricity production pre-established, "said Councilman Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco.
"This initiative is twofold. First, take the street culture and all Murcia can access it easily, something that is key to the government team. In addition, serve as a showcase for emerging groups that start take their first steps and are displayed to industry and national specialized media. "
"This is an industry approach to Murcian current music scene within a relaxed environment in which citizens can participate and witness what is happening in the alternative music scene of the region," added Pacheco.
Big bands Up!
2015 are Alex Tired, Ayoho, New Jungle, The meatpies, The Purple Elephants and The Stuffs, which were chosen from among 42 musical projects by a group of about thirty experts in music selectors.
The artists have two different locations for an acoustic concert of 20 minutes each, at different times, which will be developed in different places of the city from 17.30 to 22 hours.
Every 30 minutes beginning at a concert in two different points equidistant path as possible.
Experts are Roger Dedeu visit Murcia (Legal Music SOS 4.8), Santi Alvarez (Director of Sansan Festival), Christophe Cassan (Bime Project Manager, Programmer Last Tour and Cruilla Barcelona), Cristian Cabrera (Sony Music), Jorge Rubio, (Universal Music Publishing), Fernando Neira, (BBC), Arturo Garcia (Mndonosoro), Santiago Carrillo, (Rockdeluxe), Cesar Andión (Live Nation), and Paco Lopez (Attraction Management).
On Saturday, the REM Hall will host a meeting of experts and musicians at 22 am, and after midnight, an acoustic concert of Ivan Ferreiro.
Moreover, Big Up!
Street complements the celebration of the First Meeting Photo Exhibition Big Up!
to be held in the duckling Space September 29 to October 7 where images of all those musicians Big Up will be shown!
Murcia and emerging musicians are slowly making headway.
The program this year includes the III Congress Big Up!
which, under the title 'Innovation in the office of musician', seeks to bring and teach the musicians to achieve autonomy and independence needed to continue creating and exercising the profession and craft of music, when support large office, record and promoter is harder than ever.
On 1 and 2 October at the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Murcia will take place presentations to different composers and musicians in general and open to other potential stakeholders who register on the website of Big Up.
This year will discuss strategies to promote a musical project (Managing tour and scenarios; Managing brand new musicians, new media) and the keys to produce a self-released album (production, distribution and editorial)
In addition, the conference will feature Ivan Ferreiro, musician for his outstanding career will their life experience in the craft of music and how it has managed to live on Friday 2 to 20 hours.
Also take place Big Up!
Meetings, personal counseling meetings where participants in the congress musicians may consult with representatives from SGAE and AIE.
The term Big Up!
is an Anglo-Saxon term of Jamaican origin of respect and recognition of something or someone bringing it to a higher level, coined within the environment of urban music, when a renowned musician publicly show respect to another musician or musical project.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia