AGENDA

Yerevan Music Week is back from 21 to 27 September 2026, bringing together the Armenian music industry around a programme of showcases and conferences. Gaianè Kevorkian, from KeepOn LIVE, will attend the event and represent Live DMA.

Ree­per­bahn Fes­ti­val is back in Hamburg from 16–19 September 2026. Erica Romero joins the panel discussion “European Concert Companies, where are you?” on Friday 16 September, and a discussion to be announced around the Live Music Fund, a German redistribution mechanism supported by the Bundesstiftung LiveKultur.

by:Larm is a festival and conference programme held each year in Norway. Erica Romero will present our work on ownership concentration in a panel discussion presented with our Norwegian member NKA, “Mapping Market Concentration: Does Europe’s Live Music Ecosystem need rebalancing?”.

Powered by the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA), the event, held from 9-11 September, is dedicated to advancing scholarly inquiry into the dynamics of the global music business. This year’s overarching theme is “Music and Entrepreneurship”. Léna Lozano will give a presentation entitled “The Amateur, the Headliner and the Zombie: How Entrepreneurial Practices Reshape the Boundaries of Musical Work” as part of the programme.

Live DMA, Reset! and the Syndicat des Musiques Actuelles join forces with MEP Emma Rafowicz for an event at the European Parliament examining the growing concentration of ownership and influence across Europe’s cultural sectors. The event will examine the risks this creates, and put forward concrete solutions. These will include the revision of the EU Merger Guidelines, the creation of a European observatory, and stronger coordination between culture and competition policymakers, alongside a series of regulatory, monitoring and sector-bases measures.

The KISMIF Conference (Porto, Portugal) addresses DIY cultures as key sites of social innovation in contexts of global uncertainty, engaging with artivism, civic imagination, feminist practices, environmental action and grassroots forms of resistance. During the 2026 edition, Léna Lozano will present the academic rewrite of Anatomy of a Closure, an explorative overview of noise complaints as a socio-acoustic object.

Live DMA is headed to Toulouse to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RAFFUT!, organised by FEDELIMA. On the programme are two Crowbuilder workshops with French venues, and a round table around ownership concentration.

The European Forum on Music returns from 9–12 June in Timișoara with its 14th edition, dedicated to the theme Music, Health & Wellbeing. Silvia Käsk from Music Estonia Live, and Live DMA board member, will represent Live DMA there!