Live Music Exchange: Interesting Times for Local Live Music

Venue Bar Meeting Room, Leeds College of Music, Leeds Friday 4^th – Saturday 5^th May 2012

The focus of the event is the problems of local live music promotion in the current global economic crisis.  Our conference runs in conjunction with the Live @ Leeds festival and the Unconference, therefore there is a particular focus on Leeds and surrounding areas.  NB while a Live at Leeds doesn’t get you into the Live Music Exchange, it does get you in to the Unconference, and vice versa.

The event is a space with which to broaden the debate around live music and bring various groups together, and features speakers and delegates from a wide range of backgrounds, including promoters, musicians, academics, and local music historians.  The event will use a number of different formats, including keynote speeches, ‘in conversations with …’, and panel discussions, as well as more ‘traditional’ academic papers.

The cost of the conference will be £30 per delegate (£15 for students/unwaged).  If you wish to attend individual conference sessions, the cost per session will be £5 (£3 students/unwaged).  Please get in contact with Emma Webster if you wish to attend.

For more information, please see the Live Music Exchange website here.

Background information:

The conference marks the start of a new AHRC-funded initiative: the Live Music Exchange, a knowledge transfer project emerging from three years of wide-ranging research into the social, cultural, historical, and economic dimensions of live music.  For more information about the original project, please see here.