- Friday 2 October
The global live sector is increasingly seen as a stable investment, with large private equity firms and financial actors acquiring festivals, venues, and ticketing companies in pursuit of scale, consolidation, and long-term returns. This has wide-ranging consequences both for how we experience music and for which artists and genres gain access to different stages. What kind of future is the live music industry heading toward, and how can we ensure sustainable development?
The panel will then bring together voices from across the music industry and economic research to explore how we can create more sustainable, diverse, and resilient music ecosystems in a time of significant structural change.
What new communities, infrastructures, and economic models can help ensure a more open and vibrant music culture in the future? What counter-movements and new forms of organising are emerging? And how can we make space for hope, agency, and cultural diversity in an industry under pressure?
Participants
- Erica Romero, Policy officer at Live DMA
- Rune Møller Stahl, PhD, Senior Analyst at Oxfam and External Lecturer at CBS.
- Shawn Reynaldo, Music journalist and Editor at First Floor
- Anne Thora Lykkegaard, culture journalist at Kulturmonitor (moderator)
Language: English
The panel is presented by Roskilde Festival Gruppen.