Welcome to Ilosaari Summit 2009

Rock festivals have reached the middle age. The 60s wonder has grown and matured and is in the prime of its life today. As it is habitual in the midst of life, the essentials are in order, yet there are plenty of questions left. Where are we? Why are we here? What happens next? Ilosaari Summit is on the lookout for answers for the fundamental questions of rock festivals and of the live music business as a whole. And what better occasion to take a look at these issues than at Ilosaarirock Festival, alive and kicking since 1971.

Ilosaari Summit's schedule is packed with different views and different professionals. For the artists, concerts and gigs have replaced selling records as the primary means to scrape a living out of making music. The media is increasingly interested in the ever-widening variety of festivals. And festival organisers face tougher and tougher competition in their pursuit for audiences, artists and media coverage. Everything is interrelated, and Ilosaarirock Summit is set out to find these relations.

The workshop's programme has been created in co-ordination with Music Managers Forum Finland and Ilosaarirock Festival.

The Ilosaari Summit 2009 will be held in Joensuu Science Park 17th July 2009, starting at 10 a.m. in Network Oasis (3A-building, fourth floor). Address: Länsikatu 15, Joensuu. See map here.

The workshop is free of charge. Please register to the workshop here.

Welcome!

For more information and interviews:

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Markku Pyykkönen
Executive director, Joensuu Pop Musicians Association
tel. +358 50 354 9068

Kari Pössi
Chairman, Music Managers Forum Finland
tel. +358 50 564 1950