Festival Emergente extends Open Call Super Emergentes deadline until August 15th
The current context brings us several uncertainties and some dispersion, but also a great desire to act and show new talents. We feel it is important to extend the registration deadline for Super Emergentes Open Calls, whether for bands or video clips. The new deadline is August 15th for the submission of entries.
Festival Emergente (FE) is a festival dedicated to emerging music that takes place in Portugal with the main objective of supporting and promoting the newest generation of Portuguese musicians, opening them a window of visibility and confidence in the future. Focusing on indie rock, pop and electronic music, the festival is also open to other sounds such as hip-hop, jazz and experimental and exploratory music. This year, the festival is also open to Spanish projects through the promotion of the Super Emergentes contest, also in the neighboring country.
In 2021, the FE will have its third edition on the 15th and 16th of October, at the Cine Teatro Capitólio. After the success of the first edition of Open Call Super Emergentes in 2020, which had 50 entries of such high average quality that the entire lineup of the second edition of the festival was built based on the bands in the competition, this year we are back to open and further develop the concept of the competition, which will run from the 14th of June to the 15th of August.
Thus, over two days, 16 bands will take to the Capitol stage, 8 of which will be selected through the Open Call: 2 by direct public vote (1 Portuguese and 1 Spanish), 3 to be selected by the jury (2 Portuguese and 1 Spanish) and 3 to be invited by the organization of the festival (2 Portuguese and 1 Spanish).
The other 8, by direct invitation from the organization, will be less emerging bands and musical projects, some of them already solid values and talents, recovering the idea of ”generational lineage” from the first edition (held in 2019 at LAV – Lisboa ao Vivo), stimulating thus mutual recognition and giving visibility to this spectrum of generational talent.
The Festival is once again held physically and in Live Streaming, on Ticketline’s Live Stage platform. Live Streaming’s revenue will revert entirely to União Audiovisual, as a way to support those without whom concerts cannot exist and who also supported us last year.
We will also start a cycle of meetings and conversations about culture and music production, about emerging music in Portugal and about the structuring of the artistic paths of young musicians, also with a view to greater cooperation with Spain.
