MMOI 2011 in motion
Here is a sneak peak of last year’s edition with interviews with Sandy Boutin (FME), David O’Connor (Live Nation) and Joanne Pouliot (Socan). We are currently working on MMOI 2012 and it is set to be an insightful and innovative event!
MMOI Conference, 2nd edition
In a global and saturated market, could festivals be a space where hype and business can be put to the test?
“Festivals have become the physical manifestation of a digital world’’, noted Live Nation L.A.’s David O’Connor, at the second International MMOI Conference, July 28 at Hotel Opus.
MMOI conference schedule
The theme for 2011: What Holds Festivals Together?, followed by a cocktail presented by SOCAN.
Don’t miss a night of great club shows to kick off the MEG and Osheaga festivities!
What does the MMOI pass include?
MEG Montreal OSHEAGA International was created for agents, promoters, managers, labels and other key actors of the music industry to reflect and act upon ideas and opportunities in their respective professions, during MEG Montreal Festival and OSHEAGA Music and Arts.
What holds festivals together?
Musically-speaking, what’s the real power and reach of “banding up”? Are things done very differently elsewhere in the world, namely Europe and South America? And while we’re at it, why bother putting together festivals at all?
Jutta Unger, panelist
Jutta Unger is the coordinator for c/o pop festival of Cologne (Germany), which is dedicated to contemporary pop culture in all its variety, as well as the C’n’B Convention, which is geared towards professionals of all creative industry sectors. She is the head of festival network »Europareise«, comprising over 70 worldwide festivals via the c/o pop international [...]
Arnaud Monnier, panelist
Arnaud Monnier lives in Paris. He is codirector of the EMB de Sannois, a concert venue located in Ile-de-France, which he manages with his associate Pascal Stirn since 1994. He has been the founding president of the RIF (Réseau des lieux de Musiques Actuelles en Ile-de-France), where he now acts as vice-president. Monnier is also administrator of [...]
Sandy Boutin, panelist
Sandy Boutin is the president and, incidentally, founder of the Festival de musique émergente en Abitbi-Témiscamingue, which specializes in digging up the best artists in independent music. Ontop of managing all things FME since 2001, he’s also been an artist manager, show promoter and album producer for some years. Favorite bands: Department Of Eagles, Loney [...]
Attendee list
The MMOI Conference 2011 countdown has begun! Here is the updated list of confirmed guests so far: Aaron Wilson, Promoter, Live Nation (USA) * Andrew Ellis, Agent, Paradigm & Founder, Bamboozle (US) * Colin Lewis, Vice President, The Agency Group Toronto (CA) * Daniel Bissonnette, Directeur de la division culture et patrimoine, Ville de Montréal [...]
Andrew Ellis, panelist
Andrew Ellis is an agent at the Paradigm Agency. He is also an owner of the Bamboozle Music Festival, and Ducatking ticketing. In whatever free time he has he spends it sleeping in the greatest city in the world, New York City. Favorite bands: All of the bands I am lucky enough to represent as [...]
Ralph Christoph, panelist
Ralph H. Christoph is a founding member, former program director and now head of strategy of the festival c/o pop and the C’n’B Creativity & Business Convention in Cologne. One of the main issues is the »Europareise«, an international network with over 75 European festivals from 25 countries, as well as a close collaboration with [...]
David O’Connor, panelist
A Montréal boy who sharpened his teeth drilling holes in CD cases for DKD and loading Econoline vans, reached Los Angeles by replacing posters and flyers with Excel and PowerPoint. David has been with Live Nation for over three years working in the North America touring division managing tours with artists as diverse as Kanye [...]
Steve Jordan, moderator
Steve Jordan used to be a major label A&R guy and an indie label A&R guy. He started the Polaris Music Prize. He’s originally from Kingston, Ontario but managed to not end up in one of its many beautiful prisons. He resides in and runs Polaris out of Toronto. Favourite bands: The Band. The Faces. [...]
Towards c/o pop
June 22-26, MMOI will be representing the Montreal music industry at c/o pop in Cologne. But we won’t be the only ones; seems like Colognians and Canadians have a lot of interests and talent to share:
On Friday, 24 June, the word around festival headquarters is: Welcome to Canada.