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Oct 22

Oct 22 MOST WANTED: MUSIC (MW:M) 2021

After a challenging 18 months, the Most Wanted: Music event, Berlin’s music business conference returns to the city with a hybrid online-offline event where attendees will be able to attend in person and rub shoulders with real people at Berlin’s historic cultural centre Kulturbrauerei (or join in remotely via the interactive digital conference platform). MW:M21 will start on Tuesday 26th with the listen to berlin: Awards right before the main conference starts on Wednesday 27th, followed by the decentralised MW:M Satellites partner events scattered all over Berlin on Thursday 28th.

Organized by the Berlin Music Commission (BMC), an institution that supports and represents players from all areas of the music industry (from live and recorded music to music tech, education and media) operating at the intersection between politics, the music industry and the public, MW:M21 has a lineup that includes many interesting panels and workshops, the conference is designed to help everyone understand the new possibilities in today’s music landscape, which changes should be made to leverage them – and how to develop those changes into a sustainable, creative, and satisfying career.

Besides, in addition to the conferences, for already the third time this year, on October 28th it will take place the very interesting so called MW:M Live 2021, a very special showcase event, where 15 bands and solo artists from Europe will present themselves to a top-class professional audience. The artists are selected from across Germany as well as Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Belgium.

This year’s MW:M Live will take place across three venues at the Kulturbrauerei (Kesselhaus, Maschinenhaus and Frannz) with the aim of helping this hand-picked selection of up-and-coming artists to take the next step in their careers since these newcomer artists will have the chance to show their talents to the invited audience of booking agents, managers, A&Rs, and media precisely in a moment where the industry is beginning once again to plan ahead for festivals and tours.