WIDE DAYS 2012 ANNOUNCES SEMINARS AND MUSIC TOURISM TIE-IN

Scotland’s Wide Days music conference and showcase event is pleased to announce the first seminars for this year’s daytime programme, which takes place on April 11-12 at Edinburgh’s Teviot House.
Topics include A&R, getting gigs abroad, audience development and a look at technological innovations which are likely to be used in the imminent future. Moreover, Wide Days also looks set to become the first event in Europe to feature panels focusing on areas of mutual interest to both the tourism and music sectors. These include the benefits of programming bands at sporting events, working with musicians to promote destinations and a look at several hotels which have boosted business through music.

“Wide Days has established a reputation for bringing together music industry veterans with those doing amazing things at grassroots level,” explains co-founder Olaf Furniss. “We now plan to build on this to become first forum for the music and tourism industries to build closer partnerships. The aim is to bring about collaborations for the mutual benefit of artists, promoters, visitor attractions, travel companies and hospitality businesses.”

Panel participants will be announced next week, along with several workshops and the first showcases. Previous guests have included the organisers of key festivals such as Rockness, T In The Park, Edinburgh Hogmanay and Wickerman, as well as the managers of acts such as Stevie Wonder, Texas, Primal Scream and The View.

Among the showcased artists are PAWS, who went on to sign to leading independent label Fatcat, as well as the singer songwriters Rachel Sermanni and Withered Hand.

A special early bird rate of £29 is available for the conference until March 12, representing a third off the full price of £45.


Tickets can be purchased from www.widedays.com/tickets

For Wide Days updates and information visit the newely launched website:
www.widedays.com

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