Our Mission

E-R Music Commission promotes and supports the music industry and the development of its artists and emerging artists in the field of pop, rock, electronic, jazz, world and experimental music.

It is aimed at professionals active in the music market (new artists and bands, record labels, press offices, publishing companies, booking, promotion, concert organizations, and music production agencies) who wish to be accompanied in their path of production, distribution, and promotional development to a national and also international level.

Emilia-Romagna, along the entire route of the Via Emilia which goes from the city of Piacenza to Rimini, can count on a great number of artists, small and large music producers, labels, publishers, clubs, and festivals in a widespread manner and not only around the regional capital Bologna that is, among other things, a Unesco Creative City of Music and is therefore included by right within a global network related to Music.

The export office is the latest function added to the services run by the Music Commission in strict collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

OUR ACTIVITIES IN 2024

• LINECHECK POP UP BOLOGNA: A DAY DEDICATED TO THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA MUSIC INDUSTRY ON DECEMBER 11Music lovers and professionals, mark this date in your calendar: next December 11th, Linecheck Music Meeting and Festival and Emilia-Romagna Music Commission, bring to Bologna, UNESCO City of Music, Linecheck Pop Up, an event that combines industry meetings and an evening of showcases with the best Emilia-Romagna production, also designed to promote Italy and its music system as a Focus Country at the 2025 edition of ESNS – EUROSONIC NOORDERSLAG (Groningen 15-18 January).
  A new format created to connect the local music scene with the international panorama and to offer a whole day of meetings for professionals, with internationally renowned guests from the music system and market, and an evening of live music open to the public.

• ITALY AT WOMEX: EMILIA-ROMAGNA WILL BE THERE!

  There is only one week left until the start of WOMEX, the most important global event dedicated to world music that this year will take place from 23 to 27 October in Manchester, the capital of English music and nightlife.
  For the second year, Italy presents itself united thanks to the support of ICE – Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, which has promoted collective participation with the setting up of the ITALY AT WOMEX 24 pavilion that will bring together associations and institutions and operators who work, in particular, in the field of world music and for the internationalization of the system.
  The collaboration between Assomusica, the association of organizers and producers of live music shows, Regione Puglia, as part of the Puglia Sounds regional music system development project, Regione Emilia-Romagna, as part of the music export project for the internationalization of the Emilia-Romagna musical movement conceived by Emilia-Romagna Music Commission and ATER Fondazione, and the festival networks Italian World Beat and Rete Italiana World Music, is thus renewed.

  A large delegation of operators from Emilia-Romagna will be present and music will also be a protagonist!
  We are proud that Godblesscomputers, a project by the bolognese producer Lorenzo Nada, has been selected for the Club Summit by the artistic direction of WOMEX. The only Italian, together with Mauro Durante from Puglia who will perform in a duo with the English Justin Adams (October 26, 10.30pm – 11.15pm, c/o Warehouse Stage A, Aviva Studios, Manchester).

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• SUONO GRASSO

  Cafe OTO, London – 8-9 October 2024
  Ater Fondazione and the Emilia-Romagna Music Commission are proud to present Suono Grasso, a two-night celebration of cutting-edge experimental music from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The event will take place for the third time at East London venue Cafe Oto on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th October, featuring a diverse cast of innovative artists at the forefront of experimental music.
  Suono Grasso is a key annual event for the Italian region to support international connection and collaboration.

• MENT 

  Ljubljana – 21-24 February 2024
  Meet the Emilia-Romagna Music Scene ‪@MENTLjubljanaSession‬
  From 21 to 24 February, the tenth edition of MENT, the most important showcase festival in Eastern Europe, took place in Ljubljana.
  In the video, the delegation of operators from Emilia-Romagna, who accompanied us on this experience, tell us how it went, what it means to create a system in presenting a music scene like ours, so active and lively, and how important it is to engage with the international market.
  Here is the list of delegates who participated in MENT: Katia Giampaolo (Estragon); Matteo Gozzi (Arti Vive); Chris Angiolini (Bronson Produzioni); Marco Ligurgo (roBOt Festival); Piero Mantengoli (acieloaperto); Marco Pignatiello (Arci Emilia-Romagna – Suner); Salvatore Cataudella (Panico Concerti); Mattia Antico (Ferrara sotto le stelle); Rita Zappador (IMARTS); Lorenzo Bedini (Antenna Music Factory).
  For the Emilia-Romagna Region/Emilia-Romagna Music Commission were present: Gianni Cottafavi; Simona Giuliano; Laura Di Salvo.
  For ATER Fondazione: Antonio Volpone; Gianluca Giusti.
  For Bologna City of Music UNESCO: Giorgia Boldrini; Valentina Lanza.
  
  

  Chris Angiolini e Leatherette ‪@MENTLjubljanaSession‬
  

  On the first day of the festival, Leatherette, a punk quintet from Bologna selected by the project La Zona d’Ombra by Bronson Produzioni supported by the regional law for the development of the music sector (L.R. 2/2018 – three-year period 2021-2023), performed on the stage of a packed Kino Šiška. In the video, their manager and founder of the Bronson Recordings label Chris Angiolini and the entire Leatherette tell us about the journey they have taken together, from scouting to artistic residency, from the publication of two albums to tours and the first participations in internationally renowned showcase festivals.