different genres of music, people and cultures meet in a big celebration in the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens for the next four days.
Connecting Cultures – Inspiring Innovation is this year’s motto that brings together music lovers, Athenians and non-Athenians, who will attend concerts on three stages of the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens: Arch Club – Live Stage, Gazi View and Oddity Club, as well as the discussions that will precede the day. 4 days, 4 places, 40 artists and 160 speakers from 26 countries, from early morning to late night:
a rich program with a total of 56 discussion panels, presentations, roundtables and talks, 13 workshops, dj sets, networking events, exhibitions and other special actions in the neighborhood of Kerameikos. A unique festival experience to say goodbye to spring and get in the right mood for the upcoming concert summer!
The first date we give you, is Thursday, May 23 at 23:00, at the Arch Club – Live Stage with Alkyone, followed by Marie Claire with enthusiasm since her first album. “Birds also inspire me – I like to sit and watch the flocks in the sky. There are things that happen in nature that we are used to not noticing. In nature there is peace, harmony and justice without discrimination, while in our society you wonder why someone else has more or less rights than you. I think the world is not made unfair“, he said to himself in his interview in the magazine.
As part of the conference, the discussion opened on Athens itself, its role, value and potential to become a more active, international hub for music and culture, continuing to search for new ways to empower young people creator, but also the challenges themselves. face We will follow the dynamic process of a song’s journey from inspiration to release, which will be openly explored in an interactive workshop, while the ever-burning topic of the relationship between Music and Technology will also be discussed.
Beyond the panels on social and environmental concerns at the heart of the music industry, the issue of equal gender representation and the role of men in this effort, the festival will be concerned with the power of music to heal wounds in this world, but and how rap, hip-hop, reggaeton and trap are shaping a hot new scene.
Meanwhile, for the third consecutive year, the debate entitled “The Great Hearing” returns, becoming an informal institution of the event. In this, the famous and influential radio producers, Iliana Stergiopoulou (Nostos 100.6), Xenophon Rarakos (Melodia 99.2), Panagiotis Menegos (En Lefko 87.7) and Michalis Kamakas (Kosmos 93.6), and with Marco Frago who are strong- on a coordinated role, they try through an interactive listening method to co-decide whether a song has the potential to become a hit or not.