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The international Jury of 27 members including Industry experts, festival organisers, promoters, export offices, venue managers and music journalists from the 9 countries participating in the Awards: Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia has left the courtroom! After 6 fruitful months of collaboration, meetings and networking sessions, 6 enlightening workshops, […]

HMA Finalists participate in an international online event broadcasted live! The HMAs (HEMI MUSIC AWARDS) are wrapping the second phase of the competition with “live” performances by the 9 finalists, at the HMA Live Sessions, on Sunday, May 23, which will determine the 3 winners! During this online TV show, the contestants will be presenting […]

How can the music can make a comeback after pandemic? Main question for a music conference in Brno  How can the music scene can make a comeback after pandemic? That’s the main question for RECONNECT: CEENTRAL PARTY – BACH CONFERENCE – IMMF CEE MEETING, a unique collaboration that brings clubs, managers, bands and other music […]

Athens Music Week 2021 returns in a hybrid format, with lots of music, innovative web events and a very special live stage!   From the 22nd to the 26th of June 2021, Athens Music Week (AMW) will be back at Technopolis Athens, to offer insights around all facets of the music industry, through selected talks, […]

Our Romanian partner  announced new dates for Mastering the Music Business 2021 edition. This is the official Press Release: ”Dear music business professionals, taking into account the current epidemiological situation in Romania, we’ve made the difficult decision to slightly postpone our conference and festival for the end of this summer, in the continued hope that […]

Hub for the Exchange of Music Innovation (HEMI) is thrilled to announce the 9 finalists for the HEMI Music Awards (HMA) 2021! Coming from 9 countries of Central & Southeastern Europe (Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia), these 9 artists will now have access to mentoring and training activities targeted […]

In this last workshop of HEMI Music Awards phase 1, the 27 nominees of CSEE had the chance to find out how the Music PR process works in Germany.  Sebastian Król, co-founder of Backseat music agency and Funklub platform gave to the nominees an overview featuring fields of media, insights of a campaign and tips on […]

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Music Tech Europe Academy, a new, hybrid and scalable training scheme co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and promoted by Music Innovation Hub (IT) in partnership with Media Deals (DE). Music Tech Europe Academy is a 7 months program  addressed to 10 music-tech innovators/ entrepreneurs/startups/SMEs across […]

For their 3rd ΗΜΑ workshop, the 27 HEMI MUSIC AWARDS nominees had the chance to meet with Mandy Aubry, Director of Business Development for EMEA and APAC at Songtrust. Mandy’s wonderful workshop was an introduction to Music Publishing, with useful and crucial information on topics such as When is the right time to sort out […]

HEMI partners met again with the 27 artists nominees selected in the first Phase of the HEMI MUSIC AWARDS 2021! This unformal workshop was held to make a short presentation of the 9 HEMI music markets (Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.) For more information about the 27 nominated […]

On Wednesday 27 of January, HEMI partners met with the 27 artists nominees of the first Phase of the HEMI MUSIC AWARDS. You can discover all these talented artists from Central & Southeastern Europe in the short footage of our zoom session here bellow! For more information the 27 nominated artists and bands from Czech […]

HEMI Music Awards (HMA) 2021 is thrilled to reveal the nominees of the first edition! The 27 artists and bands from 9 countries of Central & Southeastern Europe will be participating in the initial phase of HMA 2021 and will earn activities that will help them evaluate their capacity to access new territories. The package […]

The next edition of Tallinn Music Week is scheduled to take place in the Estonian capital from 6 – 9 May 2021.  This HEMI partner festival is currently accepting applications for artists of any genre! Deadline is January 10, 2021. Interested in performing there? You can apply at tmw.ee/apply As the leading showcase of “tomorrow’s […]

The HEMI Music Awards 2021 have secured the support of 18 distinguished Media Partners from the 9 HEMI countries. Submissions are still open for the HEMI MUSIC AWARDS 2021. The deadline is December 23! It’s all about the music, we all know that! However, publicity is also key, if a musician or a band want […]

HEMI Music Awards 2021 is proud to have secured the participation of an international Jury of Experts from the 9 HEMI countries. Submissions are still open for the HEMI MUSIC AWARDS 2021. The deadline is December 23! In charge of all phases of the selection of candidates is a Jury of 27 members, each one […]

PIN TV – the first TV format dedicated to the music industry – is this year’s answer to holding a conference amid Covid-19 restrictions! A 13-hour TV program, streaming online, PIN TV is a hybrid music conference format developed from the need to preserve the conference’s most important goal: to inform, educate, and deliver the […]

We are proud to announce the first HEMI MUSIC AWARDS! We are currently accepting applications for the HMAs 2021! Submissions until December 23, 2020, Here is the full press release! Are you an artist? Feelin’ Export-Ready? Apply now! Be part of this annual talent program, and get the chance to earn personalized support by International […]

On Tuesday, November 17, we’ll be discussing “Social Innovation through Music in Eastern Europe”. HEMI is going to be present at the online version of Lineckeck Music Meeting and Festival on November 17 at 14:00. Presented by HEMI – Hub for the Exchange of Music Innovation (in English), this panel will host Georges Perot, Owner […]

The European Commission has just published two studies of “Music Moves Europe”. Under the 2018 Preparatory action on music, the European Commission launched several studies to address the main challenges in the music sector, all aiming to improve the poor data availability, develop a better understanding of the market trends as well as sustainable mechanisms […]

The first and only music conference and showcase festival in North Macedonia has just announced its 7th edition! This year’s conference and showcase will take place at several locations around the capital Skopje, from the 26th to the 28th of November 2020. Organized as a part of the renowned Taksirat Festival, PIN will host the […]

CEENtral party, a conference focusing on the Central and Southeastern European  countries and their music markets is happening online on Nov 28. A full day of panels, workshops, networking, plus one special streaming from London, it’s all going to be free for everyone! Here is the full fascinating program: Workshops: 11:00 BandCamp workshop with Aly […]

HEMI Music Award will be a talent programme for artists seeking professional support to help them break the frontiers, reach new audiences and develop international career. The Αward will be addressed to Export ready artist, meaning that Artist should have experience playing music to a live audience, they should have promo material on the internet, […]

From Krakow, Poland to the virtual public, Tak Brzmi Miasto conference: The Future, coming online on November 14-15, aims to offer artists and music professionals insights and practical tools to help them navigate the new post-Covid 19 landscape. It won’t be a look through rose-colored glasses, yet the organizers will focus on possibilities and the […]

HEMI Enters BUSH, the Hungarian Showcase Conference Budapest Showcase Hub is the first Hungarian showcase festival and conference, focusing on the Central Eastern European region, showcasing the best current artists and listing all the hot topics of the music industry. This year, irregularly, it’ll be a one-day-only hybrid event, on November 4th, but will still […]

The 12th edition of Showcase festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) will kick off on Thursday, the 27th of August. Music Estonia is one of the partners of the festival again contributing to the Creative Impact Conference program! A partner of HEMI, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the conference will take place over two days, […]

Galvanizing support for those hardest hit by the pandemic, the Life Stream Project brings together world-class acts who will perform at Novi Sad’s Petrovaradin Fortress, the home base of EXIT festival, for a million-strong online audience from September 3rd to 6th. Music for a good cause: EXIT festival, in partnership with the United Nations World […]

The conference makes a surprise comeback in a new format: online and with free attendance. Don’t miss it! Good news for the music industry and beyond: the fifth edition of Mastering The Music Business, the first and largest event organized in Romania about the music industry, will take place from July 29 to July 31 in […]

As a proud partner of the  European Music Day Association, we are thrilled to present the full line-up of the 21st edition of the #europeanmusicday – #feteEuropeennedelaMusique 2020 edition! We knew this summer would be different, but as music always finds the way to inspire us, thankfully, it also gives us the strength to move […]

With just 3 months to reshape all program since the COVID 19 pandemic shadowed the planet, we are happy to announce that Technopolis City of Athens, our Greek HEMI partner, have revealed the Conference and Showcase program of the Athens Music Week 2020  Athens Music Week 2020 Phygital Edition #AMW2020 50 speakers – 28 artists […]

United we stand! Nearly 40 pan-European music organizations join forces in an urgent call on EU institutions and Member States to prioritize music and culture in their investment response to the covid-19 crisis. Music and culture have been especially hit by the global lockdown. Artists and music professionals are struggling, the livelihoods of thousands of […]

With the pandemic raging, and a worldwide travel ban, all HEMI meetings had to adapt to the situation! Working from home and communicating only via online platforms has become our new normal. Here is a snapshot from the latest trend: zoom meetings! We always start with partners giving us information on the covid-19 crisis in […]

On the 5th of February, HEMI partners representatives presented our four-year project in Kino Siska’s Komuna Hall. With EU’s new cultural policy, which provides a vast amount of resources for the development and professionalization of the music industry, they addressed the question of how the Central and Southeastern (CSEE) Music Markets will react to this […]

MENT Ljubljana 2020 is taking over the venues of the Slovenian capital between 5 and 7 February. Here are some finalized details about the festival’s program that we look forward to! It’s all about the Music, with this, the 6th edition hosting a total of 81 acts that will perform on 14 locations across Ljubljana. Besides the 60 already announced […]

HEMI kick-off meeting, took place in Athens, Greece, December 12-13, 2020! It was a wonderful time in Technopolis City of Athens for the 20+ participants representing the 9 countries of our project, as we embarked in synthesizing the structure, the goals and the vision behind HEMI! Meeting started with a warm welcome from Konstantinos Bitzanis, […]