They are available on the website pugliasounds.it public notices Puglia Sounds Tour Italy 2024, Puglia Sounds Tour Export 2024, Puglia Sounds Export 2024: fairs and conventions 2024 and the memoranda of understanding with the Italian and international networks were renewed Europe Jazz Network, Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals, I-Jazz, Italia Jazz Club, KeepOn Live And Italian World Music Network. A set of actions, which represent a first intervention with a total economic budget of approximately 280 thousand euros from the Special Fund for Culture and Cultural Heritage LR40/2026, art 15, paragraph 3, aimed at increasing the circulation of Apulian music in Italy and abroad. Public notices, aimed at artists, operators, booking and management agencies, concert organizers, are back in Puglia Sounds Plusthe line of intervention of Puglia Sounds, the program of the Puglia Region for the development of the regional music system implemented by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese – Regional Consortium for Arts and Culture, which has supported the music sector since 2020.
In particular Puglia Sounds Tour Italy 2024the call which in the previous deadlines supported around 900 concerts in Italy, with an endowment of 80 thousand euros, it encourages the creation of musical or multidisciplinary artistic-cultural projects, with live music as the main language, to be carried out in Italy, including the Puglia region, for the period between July 18 and December 31, 2024. Two deadlines are expected: June 28, 2024 for programming between 18 July and 31 October 2024 and 17 September 2024 for programming between 1 November and 31 December 2024.Puglia Sounds Tour Export 2024, the call which has supported over 2000 concerts abroad since 2010, with an endowment of 100 thousand euros for the programming of artistic-cultural musical projects and multidisciplinary artistic-cultural projects, with live music as the main language, which promote the Apulian musical system and which take place abroad In the period included between 15 July and 31 December 2024. Two deadlines are foreseen: 26 June 2024 for programming between 15 July and 31 October 2024 and 19 September 2024 for programming between 1 November and 31 December 2024.Puglia Sounds Export: fairs and conventions 2024/2025with an endowment of 40 thousand euros for the period between 1 September 2024 and 31 January 2025, incentivises internationalization projects of the Apulian musical system in the context of international fairs and conventions which involves participation in Fira Mediterrania of Manresa 24 (10/13 October Spain), Womex 24 (23/27 October UK), Mundial Montreal 24 (November 19/22 Canada), M for Montreal 24 (20/23 November Canada), ESNS – Eurosonic Noordeslag 25 (15/18 January Holland) and other fairs and conventions.
Finally, the memoranda of understanding with Europe Jazz Network (European association which includes 170 organizations including festivals, clubs and concert halls, independent promoters), Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals(network of over 50 festivals focusing on world music and local cultures), I-Jazz (network with around 60 members active in all Italian regions)Italia Jazz Club (national association that brings together some of the most symbolic Italian jazz clubs), KeepOnLive (live club trade association, Italian live music festivals) And Italian World Music Network (Association promoted by some of the most important Italian world music festivals). Through the memoranda of understanding, which provide an endowment of 63 thousand euros for the period between 15 June and 31 December 2024, Puglia Sounds recognizes a fee to the associated festivals/clubs that program activity dedicated to the enhancement and promotion of the Apulian music system.
Public notices require filling in online forms and encourage the activity of subjects youngIn fact, each tender includes a specific budget share allocated to projects by less structured entities. Eligible subjects, participation methods, application submission deadlines and details available on the website pugliasounds.it.
