Through the mook produced by Stan Souedet from Les Formations d’Issoudun depicting the different professions and players in the French pop music sector, we will dive directly into 3 support and training programmes in the Greater Region. How can we support the development of artists’ skills, but also, more broadly, of the players in the sector ?
CUR - Stan Souedet (FR)
Working in the music industry since 2000 at various positions (record dealer, production manager, stage manager, booker), Stan joined the Formations d'Issoudun and specialized in training and work analysis.
He was also co-president of Fracama from 2019 to 2023 and is still co-chairman of Lylo Prod.
Much more than a training organization, Les Formations d'Issoudun (LFI) is an essential link towards the professionalization of the actors of the music industry. A true pioneer in France, LFI federates a unique community of 1,300 former trainees and 70 professional speakers within a network of 1,200 partner companies.
The institution has four main missions: to train the talents of tomorrow to encourage changes in practices, to certify the skills of professionals in the industry, to insert new vital forces by contributing to the recruitment of companies and the creation of new structures, and to accompany organizations (institutions, universities and grandes écoles, networks and federations, support and accompaniment structures) willing to develop skills in the music industry.
Fanny Kammenthaler présente les CRMA et la plateforme Artefact
Fanny Kammenthaler is in charge of cultural support and mediation since 2019 at La Laiterie: the Strasbourg music club. She is in charge of the Artefact Platform, which is both a support system for the Strasbourg scene and a space dedicated to newcomers and musical creation.
La Laiterie has been the Centre de Ressources Musiques Actuelles Bas-Rhin, Eurométropole de Strasbourg (CRMA) in Elsass, a departmental label, since 2007, and is responsible for supporting artists and music professionals, in particular some fifteen labels and fifty artistic groups resident at La Plateforme Artefact for at least one year. As such, the CRMA's mission is to raise awareness and interest in pop music, to support the actors of the territory and to promote pop music. The Artefact Platform is therefore the support component of the CRMA.
Kem Lalot
Les Eurockéennes de Belfort
Kem Lalot est programmateur du festival de plein air "Les Eurockéennes de Belfort" depuis l'édition 2001. Il est aussi programmateur du festival Generiq, qui est un festival axé sur des artistes découvertes dans des lieux remarquables en collaboration avec 5 clubs repartis dans 5 villes proches des frontières de la Suisse et de l'Allemagne.
Opération Iceberg
Il est aussi coordinateur, pour la partie française, de l'Opération Iceberg qui est un projet expérimental d'accompagnement de 11 artistes Franco-Suisse en collaboration avec la fondation Suisse Romande FCMA.
Udo Dahmen
Udo Dahmen has played for Sting, Nina Hagen, Gianna Nannini, Jack Bruce, Gary Brooker... He is chairman and director of the department of popular music at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, vice-president of the German Music Council, president of the European drummers' association "Percussion Creativ" and a member of the speakers' council of the German Cultural Board. Udo Dahmen studied classical drumming at the Musikhochschule Rheinland in Aachen and Cologne and with Dante Agostini in Paris. He was a lecturer and director of the contact course on popular music at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg and created the Rock/Pop/Jazz study course at the Berufsfachschule für Musik, Dinkelsbühl.