Music Never Stops Festival: apply now!

We're doing an online festival - you can play on our virtual stage and get paid to do it!
Music Never Stops Festival

Do you have a band/duo/musical project? Are you able to record yourself performing some music? Do you want to play a gig… online and get paid? Read down below and find out how!

The selection phase is officially closed! We will get in touch with the selected bands privately.

What is Music Never Stops Festival?

Because of the current world’ situation, the entertainment and music industries have been suffering a lot. Lots of festivals were cancelled, but that didn’t stop people from asking to be entertained. Thanks to live streaming, musicians were allowed to perform to their fans directly from their homes.
We know that many of you were looking forward to the summer to play gigs, festivals or embark into tours. That’s why we decided to give the opportunity to musicians from all over the world to play a virtual gig and get paid!

You will play online!

We’ll pick 5 bands that will get the opportunity to perform on our YouTube channel – and on top of that, you will also get paid your fee as if you were playing in a real location!
Every band will play a 20-minutes set and will have the opportunity to reach new fans, showcase their music and get the recognition they deserve!
On top of that, every band/artist/group performing will get paid 1.000€ – more infos about that on the Terms & Conditions page

How do I send my audition?

You’ll find a form below that you have to fill with all the relevant information about your musical project.
Due to technical requirements, we are asking every participant to record a short audition tape / medley to showcase what you’re capable of and if you have the technical equipment to pull this off.
Please upload your video to YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook and paste the link into the corresponding field in the submission form. Entries missing the audition link will not be taken into consideration.

Deadline for all submissions is July 20th, 23:59:59. Hurry up!

 

What happens next?

If you’ll get selected to play, you will get in touch with one of our organisers and discuss your availability and your fee. You will subsequently be asked to send a 20 minute clip (or several clips with your songs that should be 20 min in total).  Deadline is key here as we all want the festival to happen soon, so please be serious about it!

Technical requirements

We’ll accept only bands that will provide the material in a timely manner and with good audio and video quality. We’re looking at at least Full HD videos (1080p)  and 48 kHz / 44.1 kHz audio quality at the highest bitrate possible. The songs have to be mixed and, if possible, already mastered for the video.

A few tips

  • use good lighting! take advantage of natural light or just use white LED lamps to achieve good results
  • today’s smartphone are more than capable of pulling off a 4K video, so feel free to use one if you don’t own a DSLR/Mirrorless or Digital videocamera.

 

Ready? Fill the form and… good luck!

No more submissions allowed


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Comments 57

  1. Ana Lucia says:
    We have a live video in YouTube, was a streaming test, 20min long, 3 days ago. Can we send this video as the audition? Thanks!
  2. Nikita says:
    Hello, I’m a classical musician, solo pianist. Would you be interested in having some classical music performed at your festival? I will be able to present a well-rounded 20-minute recital of classical music or more. My website is lukinoff.com Looking forward to hearing from you, Nikita
  3. Brahim says:
    Hi , and thank you so much for this wonderful initiative to over the world music bands , hope we can reach the right conditions and we really would like to participate and give to the people audience the joy and fun moments . Again... thank you ^__^
  4. Jevon Harris says:
    Hi my name is jevon I'm from Guyana we have a video but not the link how can we send it it's in good quality and sound too we would really like to be apart of this
  5. Alex says:
    Hi there! Is it okay to play covers or it needs to be only original material? Thanks!
  6. Malix upit says:
    Je me suis trompé de lien en envoyant le 1er formulaire alors j'ai refait mon inscription pour envoyer le bon lien de la video de l'audition , il s'agit de Notre video du medley que nous avons joués pour l'institut français de Lubumbashi à l'occasion de la fete de la musique le 21 juin dernier
  7. Antony says:
    Hi i am with a team of artista from guatemala, we would like to submit one of our artists. We yave a live coming up soon if it is of high definition and good sound quality could we sen u that as the submission? Does it have to he in english? The live we are doing will be fully in spanish
    1. Joe says:
      Hi Antony, By submission do you mean audition? You could use the livestream footage as the audition but for the festival performance, that needs to be original content, never before seen / heard (like a real festival, everyone watching it should be seeing an exclusive performance for the first time). I hope that helps, good luck! And... claro que si, lo puedes hacer en cualquier idioma! //Joe
  8. Hernan Barbieri says:
    Dear Thomann team, We are Cernunnos (Folk Metal from Argentina) and we love your proposal for being part of your Live Streaming! Although we have a problem with our drummer, because he doesn't have his drums in his house but we already have his tracks recorded, we would LOVE to be part of it. Could we participate on it even we can't send his video track?
    1. Joe says:
      Hi Hernan, Sure, that's totally fine, in these circumstances you have to improvise :) Looking forward to hearing / seeing your performance! Best, //Joe
  9. Julio Oliveira Prada says:
    Hi! Me and my band would like to participate to the festival. We have just one question: the Medley has to be a live performance or also a video assembled with cuts and different scenes? Thank you very much! Looking forward to your reply!
    1. Joe says:
      Hi Julio, We would prefer if it was a live performance so that we can see what you are capable of in the live context. Best of luck to you and your band! //Joe

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