International Music Development

The BMF works with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) to support international opportunities for music businesses and musicians in the South West of England.

UKTI runs funding programmes and supports a series of international missions for music throughout the year and works with the BMF to ensure such ongoing opportunities are made available to South West practitioners at all times.

The BMF mentors practitioners through their engagement with UKTI.

Download the complete list of international trade missions for 2009/10 run by UKTI here Download Trade Missions

The BMF currently works with UKTI on the following missions:

South by Southwest (SXSW)
Click here for all info on SXSW 2010

Canada and Canadian Music Week
The BMF is working with UKTI South West to provide export and international development support to Canada for artists and businesses based in the South West of England.
Click here for details of our work in Canada and trade mission to Toronto in March 2010.

The Great Escape
The Great Escape is the essential international music event that happens in the UK. Taking place in Brighton each May, the Great Escape picks up many of the same delegates that attend SXSW and the BMF is working in partnership with the organisers of both events to ensure a profile presence for South West music businesses and artists that allows us to connect activity at both.
In May 2009, the BMF held a mini-convention at the Great Escape. Over 150 international delegates attended Bristol to Brighton.
We will be doing it again in 2010.
See what happened in 2009 here
Full details up soon.
Access the Great Escape website here

LA Synch Mission
This mission takes UK businesses to Los Angeles in late April for facilitated meetings with the leading music supervisors and agents for placements of music on TV, films, ad’s and games in the US.
Full details up here soon.

Midem
Held in Cannes on the French Riviera every January, Midem is the essential music industry event in Europe. It is a must in particular for record labels, distributors, licensors and managers. 8,000 international delegates attend each year from 80 countries.
The BMF and partners attend Midem each year.
We are looking now at an initial trade mission to the event for 2010 with a full mission for 2011.
Details up soon.
Access Midem site here

WOMEX
We will have representation at WOMEX 2009 with a full programme of engagement and a trade mission to the leading event for world music to follow for 2010.
Details up here soon.
Access WOMEX site here

Japan
Music Mission to Tokyo
This mission takes UK businesses to Tokyo in August for facilitated meetings with Japanese music businesses including labels, promoters and media. It includes a trip to the Summersonic Festival held every August in and links to the British Anthems Festival in Japan in November that showcases new British music.
The BMF is also a partner in the British music showcase my space site. Click here
Full details of the 2010 mission up soon.

Sonar
We are now developing a programme of engagement with the Sonar, Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art that takes place each June.
Full details up for 2010 up soon.
Access Sonar site here

New Orleans
In addition to the above missions with UKTI, the BMF is working with Plymouth City Council and Plymouth City Development Company on a programme that will aim to ‘twin’ Plymouth and the South West with New Orleans.
A first delegation will be heading to New Orleans in early November 09 to begin to develop a partnership between the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. This will lead to strengthened opportunities for jazz and blues musicians and promoters across the South West.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival takes place from 23rd April to 3rd May in 2010, and the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival takes place in Plymouth from 1st to 10th May 2010.
Full details up here soon.
Access New Orleans site here
Access Plymouth BIJB site here

Funding
UK Trade and Investment run a series of funding programmes for businesses that already trade, or are considering trading, overseas.
Please contact us if you are already trading overseas or considering doing so and we will arrange a meeting for you with our International Trade Advisor at UKTI South West.

If you have any enquiries about any of the above, would like to contact us about the missions or funding then please do so at international@bristolmusicfoundation.com

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