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MENT LJUBLJANA 2017

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Youthful music creativity, at the moment still bubbling at the edges of global attention, will come to a boil over three winter days and nights, spread over ten venues of Ljubljana's concert scene. Four clubs in Metelkova mesto, two stages in Kino Šiška and the theatrical atmosphere of the Stara mestna elektrarna will be joined by Hostel Celica, Pritličje and the DobraVaga gallery.

MENT's cauldron of creativity will receive the attention it deserves from several hundred international and Slovenian music professionals, concert and festival promoters, label heads, distributers, agents, journalists and other players, who will share their valuable knowledge and experience during the conference programme.

The MENT Ljubljana 2017 conference will explore one of the strongest Eastern European markets - Poland - in depth, investigate the background of festival programming and financing, scrutinize the term "music supervision" and related possibilities for placing music in films, series, advertisements and videogames, question the role of public relations in music, and analyse the near future of the regional music scene. In addition to the previously announced speakers, Seattle's Sub Pop label boss Jonathan Poneman and Sigtryggur Baldursson, the director of the Iceland Music Export office, the conference will host Kevin Cole, the driving force behind Seattle's legendary KEXP radio, Daryl Bamonte, formerly part of the Depeche Mode and The Cure teams, now an experienced player in management and music publishing, and Simon Pursehouse, a piercing expert on music synchronisation. Representing the festival world will be Malcolm Haynes, one of the programming directors of the Glastonbury festival, Jean-Louis Brossard, the founder and artistic director of the Les Rencontres Trans Musicales festival, and Ivan Milivojev, founder and one of the key people on the organisational team of the largest regional festival, EXIT, as well as representatives of the following festivals: Pohoda (Slovakia), OFF (Poland), Rock for People (Czech Republic), and INmusic, Outlook and Dimensions (Croatia).

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