About us

UPBEAT is the European showcase platform for world music. The 14 current members of the UPBEAT platform can draw support for booking up-and-coming bands, international artists, or even new collaborations. With UPBEAT’s help, members can meet their sustainability goals, organise professional events, conferences, and more. Our mission is to foster a forward-thinking and thriving world music industry in Europe.

Impact

New talent

Discover and be discovered easier than ever before!​

European Market

Diverse European music, like you’ve never heard before!

Sustainability

The only way to think about the future is through green policies.

Original Language

All lyrics are meaningful – not only in English.

Network of Professionals

Experts of the music and entertainment industry are within arm’s reach.

Timeline

09 May

2023

UPBEAT Universe opens its doors to the delegates.

The free digital database connects all future-minded music professionals.

19 Apr

2023

Mercat de Musica Viva de Vic joins the UPBEAT Platform!

Mercat de Musica Viva de Vic is a professional meeting point for the music sector, held annually in the second week of September. MMVV brings together professionals from the Catalan, national and international music industry.

12 Apr

2023

Budapest Ritmo is where the discovery happens.

The Showcase powered by UPBEAT presented 6 emerging artists from CE Europe, the conference hosted almost 100 delegates and the concert lineup featured many fresh world music bands.

24 Nov

2022

Upbeat at North Macedonia

UPBEAT-sponsored artists showed their talent at the first and only international music conference and showcase festival in North Macedonia: PIN Music Conference.

19 Oct

2022

Glow Up

UPBEAT goes to WOMEX for the first time – it’s a great joy to finally bring the news of this amazing project to the world.

08 Sep

2022

Catch a Wave

The official kick-off event for UPBEAT members at Waves Vienna.

04 Aug

2022

The very first beat

Méra World Music Festival featured the first UPBEAT-sponsored acts in the project’s history.

04 Aug

2022

The very first beat

Méra World Music Festival featured the first UPBEAT-sponsored acts in the project’s history.

07 Mar

2022

Great News

The UPBEAT tender has won the Creative Europe Showcase Platform grant.

News

UPBEAT so far

UPBEAT, an alliance of European showcase festivals, has already been active since 2022. So  far we have supported 7 festivals, 75 bands, delegated 216 international

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BUDAPEST RITMO x UPBEAT

Budapest Ritmo, the definitive showcase festival of the CEE region showed the benefits of UPBEAT in action: fresh talent on stage, dedicated professionals networking, new

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Newsletter

Whether you’re looking for new talent for your lineup or you’re interested in joining UPBEAT and want to learn more, our newsletter (sent out no more than once a month) is the easiest way to stay informed!

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