Seminars

Our main seminar focus is on domestic touring: how to build an audience, how to increase the nation’s venue live activity level, how one could cooperate with other genres, and the underlying main theme - how to secure the folk musicians’ livelihood. This seminar will be held in Norwegian.

For our English speaking guests and audience we are pleased to offer these seminars:

Lounge seminar

Sat 11.Sept, 14:00 - 16:30

Popsenteret, VIP-lounge, 4th floor

14:00 - 14:30 - Jo Frost, editor Songlines
- How artists might approach the media and publications in the UK in order to get wider recognition

14:45 - 15:15 - Maarten Rovers, head of programming RASA, Utrecht
- Who's afraid of Folk? The Dutch!

15:30 - 16:30 - Guttorm Andreasen (DJ, musician and radio host)
- Around the world in 60 minutes
 

Delegates only:

Meeting point/Stands/Trade Fair

Sat 11. sept, 13:00 – 17:00,

Popsenteret/Riksscenen, Lobby 1st floor

We invite all delegates to our trade fair, an informal, but still highly organised get-together for the folk music industry crowd. The trade fair, which is held on Saturday from 13:00 – 17:00, in the lobby on the 1st floor in the spanking new facilities of the National Stage for Folk Music, will no doubt be the festival’s key meeting venue and hang-out for music industry execs, media reps and artists alike. Meet and greet with representatives from Norwegian festivals, promoters, booking agencies and musicians
 

Give us your feed back!

Sun 12. sept, 11:00 – 13:00,

Popsenteret/Riksscenen, Lobby 1st floor

We are pleased to invite our delegates to an informal lunch at 11am. In partnership with with Music Export Norway we would like to take the opportunity to hear what you gained from Folkelarm 2010. We’ll greatly appreciate your feedback on the festival and welcome ideas on how we could improve in the future.