Strasbourg Music Week Blitz Sessions

The Grabuge network is holding its general assembly during our event! 
In partnership with the team, we offer you the opportunity to discover the new programs for the circulation and development of artists:

EXPLORE is an artist program for the Grand Est region. Identifying, equipping, and connecting emerging artists is a path towards artistic professionalization, open to the diversity of aesthetics and practices. 
EXPLORE is implemented by Grabuge, personalized with a career perspective. 
Training, dissemination, and connection with the pop music sector are at the heart of EXPLORE.

Grabuge is dedicated to bridging the gap between the various stakeholders in the sector by connecting the right actors to support, educate, and structure a project. The network addresses all stakeholders in the pop music sector in the Grand Est region. Grabuge's main objective is to promote artistic practices by valuing creation.

Grabuge supports the structuring of artistic practices, the development of cultural structures, or artists towards a professional career. The Grabuge network accompanies artists towards professionalization.

Grabuge ensures the impulse, coordination, and organization of projects on a regional scale. The team harmonizes all actions according to a plan defined at the beginning of the year. Members can join existing actions or even propose projects to enrich this action plan. Together, Grabuge and its members will find the right tempo to meet the expectations, needs, and gaps of the sector on one hand, and animate, promote, and make the network known on the other hand.

The network has a role in representation and advocacy. It strives to bridge regional, national, and European public policies with regional actors. It is a spokesperson and relay of information. It is there to translate and relay information, needs, or requests expressed by one or the other in order to have a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the challenges of the sector.

It defends the interests of the actors it represents. In the context of calls for projects, for example, or subsidy policies, Grabuge is a tool serving both actors and funders and ensures the adequacy of public policies with the realities of the actors.

Joël Beyler is member of the Grabuge board and he runs his label #14. He also is the founder of FEDELAB network of labels in Grand Est Région.

#14 Records is an independent label created in 2014 in Strasbourg.
#14 Records invests in several fields of activity to support the artists,: phonographic production, management, project development and booking.
The label's editorial line is centred around the major French pop and English folk-rock families. The aim of the label is to support musical diversity and the search for emerging talent, by supporting projects that are as close as possible to their artistic approach and identity.

The Grabuge network is holding its general assembly during our event! 
In partnership with the team, we offer you the opportunity to discover the new programs for the circulation and development of artists:

ORBITE is a Grabuge program that encompasses actions for the economic structuring of artists and entrepreneurship in the contemporary music sector. ORBITE aims to guide, empower, and professionalize entrepreneurs in the music industry.

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.

Maxime Rimmele is the booker at Le Gueulard +.

The artistic support program ECLAIR initiated by Le Gueulard +, venue in Moselle region,  offers personalized one-year follow-up for artists, in a mixed setting. The program includes coaching, advisory meetings, video clip shoots, live sessions, creative residencies, and recordings. The uniqueness of this program lies in collective work and collaborative creation. To conclude these support sessions, Le Gueulard + asks the participating artists to create an original show based on their creations, all broadcasted in quadraphonic sound. Four artists, four stages, with the audience in the middle; it's called ECLAIR PARTY!

With each new season opening, Le Gueulard + hosts an informational day called FLASH for artists from the Grand Est region. Several music industry professionals from labels, production companies, artist management agencies, SMACs, publishers, or public institutions take the necessary time to advise and answer all their questions during personalized meetings. Flash also serves as a showcase platform for the accompanied artists as well as Le Gueulard +'s diffusion partners.

Le Gueulard Plus, a pop music venue located in Nilvange, has been working since 2014 to support artistic diffusion and creation, raise public awareness, and provide guidance to both amateur and professional musicians.