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. James Torn says:
    Hello, First a question to clarify a very important point: - Do you want for this festival a real live streaming or a live recorded beforehand which will be broadcast? To introduce ourselves quickly, my son and I play a duet with our drum backings tracks that we created. We are preparing an album and therefore, your festival will be for us the first appearance of our group and the very first broadcast of our songs. We are with the creation of this album in a professional approach and dream only of touring and composing albums. We have our home studio, we have created a company to manage our group and we self-produce. We just discovered your ad via Instagram, and are very interested, even if we only have 7 days to prepare it, we will devote all our time to it. On this subject, we hope to have your answer as soon as possible please. Thank you for your understanding. - The second question and, not least, do you need a video demo of the same quality of editing / editing as the clip to create for the festival? This question is important because it comes at a cost to surround ourselves with a film crew for groups like us, who sail on our own funds and start in the music industry. We have a film crew, but your response will allow us to calculate the cost of this project. We sincerely thank you for your attention and understanding. Looking forward to hearing from you very soon. Musically, James TORN & Eli
  2. Christos Theodorou says:
    I'm really excited.. Let the music Break the distance between people..:)
  3. Parvindar Singh says:
    Hello, Would like to perform on this amazing festival but I dont have any studio recorded video of our band but we do have several live festivals video, still we can participate?
  4. Accordion Prakash, Srikar says:
    This is a great idea, and we are indeed looking forward to send you a nice video :-) We are a small band from Bangalore, India, that plays traditional music of different genres, cutting across countries and cultures. We have two short queries: 1) To present the different genres and overall concept, we are planning a medley of around 7-8 minutes. Hope this is fine. If it should be shorter, please let us know :-) 2) We were planning a good studio quality live shoot with camera lights, etc. However, we have an extraordinary situation in our town with a lock-down announced for the next 10 days. So we now we are planning to record live videos of the individual artists playing, stitch it together. This is not as much fun as doing a gig together, but I hope this will be accepted for the audition tape Will appreciate your feedback by Monday 13th. Thank you :-)
  5. Adrian says:
    Salut !!! Acest festival este 100% LIVE ? Este destul de greu de realizat dar nu imposibil .Ne pregatim cu tot interesul pentru acest eveniment.Urmarim cu mare interes toata evolutia evenimentului.Mult succes echipei Thomann si tuturor artistilor !!!

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