The Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg is celebrating its coming of age. For the 18th time, the festival, which sees itself as a mix of club and industry event and celebrates new musicians as well as discusses the future of music, invites you to listen.
The expected 50,000 visitors and around 4,000 trade visitors can look forward to around 300 concerts by around 320 acts from numerous nations. New discoveries are guaranteed! 200 program items with around 360 speakers in the conference program round off the discursive field around the musical performances.
Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media, and Hamburg’s Mayor Peter Tschentscher are expected to speak at the opening on September 20 (Wednesday).
The highlights of the club concerts in a total of 80 locations include The Hives, Big Joanie, Altin Gün, Bipolar Feminin, Blood Red Shoes Bob Vylan and Arab Strap.
Since 2016, the “ANCHOR – Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award” has been presented to musical talent every year. This time, the top-class jury consists of songwriter, poet and director Banks (USA), producer, songwriter, singer, actress, activist and entrepreneur Tayla Parx (USA), songwriter, singer and producer Katie Melua (GBR) and producer legend Tony Visconti (USA) as Jury President.
ROLLING STONE and MUSIKEXPRESS are also represented in the conference program. One innovation is a collaboration with the digital conference re:publica. The title “Rethink Identity” is about artificial intelligence and mental health. Other panels revolve around sustainability, streaming culture and gender equality in the music industry.
More program items will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the Reeperbahn Festival are available HERE.
Reeperbahn Festival 2023 – Acts: Highlights from the music program
- The Pretenders
- Jean Michel Blais
- Cerys Hafana
- Kathryn Joseph
- Moritz Fasbender
- K.Flay
- About waves
- Lime Cordiale
- Bibiza
- Temple’s Teleman
- Zaho de Sagazan
- NoSo
- KUOKO
- flower garden
- Tirzah
- Christian Loeffler
- grandbrothers
- orbit
- Gaspar Claus & Casper Clausen
- The Hives
- Grandson
- Blood Red Shoes
- Gretel Hanlyn
- BlackHoney
- Kelsy Karter & The Heroines
- team shit
- Pog trouble
- AUGN
- joe unkown
- Bipolar Feminine
- Bob Vylan
- YIKES
- Holly Humberstone
- Only the Poets
- Antje Schomaker
- loveless
- FredRoberts
- Maddie Tame
- Lena&Linus
- Paula Carolina
- The Last Dinner Party Becks
- NEEVE
- pongo
- Liraz
- Altin Gun
- Ichiko Aoba
- Etran de L’Aïr
- Bala Desejo
- Silvan Strauss Moses Yoofee Trio
- Jordan MacKampa
- baby rose
- waterbaby
- Annastasia
- Alina Amuri
- fuffifzich
- TUA
- Wasserman
- SAVVY
- apsilon
- Uzi Freya
- 3LNA
- Billy Bragg
- Arab Strap (acoustic show)
- AVEC
- This Is The Kit
- decker
- Arthur & Vanessa
- Paris Paloma
Reeperbahn Festival 2023 – Speaker: Highlights from the conference program
- Hauschka (DEU, Oscar winner “Best Score”) talks about his score on “Im
west nothing new” - Paul Hourican (GBR, Global Head of Music Operations TikTok)
- Folkert Koopmans (GER, CEO, FKP Scorpio)
Focus on artificial intelligence
- Nicolai Klemke, founder of Neural Frames
- Matthias Hornschuh, copyright initiative
- Werner Bogula, Digital Enabler @ Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg
- Janek Meyn, Co-Founder ADIAR (AI-driven A&R)
- Dennis Kastrup, Founder Wicked Artists (label offering only AI-enabled artists
at the start) & Matthias Ströbl, President MusicTech Germany & Founder Wicked
Artists - Portrait XO (artist who uses a lot of AI)
Focus abuse of power:
- Mirca Lotz, founder of Safe The Dance & initiator of #musicmetoo
Focus on digital transformation:
- Charlotte Stahl (DEU, Head of Music Opera>ons DACH, TikTok)
Focus on shortage of skilled workers, recruiting, diversity:
- Candace Newman (USA, LIVE OUT L!VE Founder and CEO)
- Alok Vaid Menon (ALOK) (USA, Atist) on intersectionality and identity
- Katrin Neubert (DE, Universal Music)
- Martin Staudigl (DE, Sony Music Entertainment Germany)
- Angélique Thranberend (DE, Warner Music Group Germany)
Focus on live entertainment (festivals, dynamic pricing, monopolization etc):
- Ben Mitha (DEU, CEO, Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion)
- Kiki Ressler (GER, CEO, KKT GmbH)
- Iris Bögeholz (DEU, COO, white label eCommerce GmbH)
- Rembert Stiewe (DEU, CEO, Festival Director, OBS, Glitterhouse)
Focus on social sustainability
- Katie Melua (GBR) on Parenthood in Music
- Clueso (DEU, songwriter) in conversation with his manager
- dr Olaf Meinking (DEU, manager of Marius Müller-Westernhagen and advisor to FC Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel) on the
Challenges and perseverance in the course of a long artistic career
Focus on ecological sustainability
- SUSTAIN! – Green Culture Summit https://sustain-summit.de/
- One-day sustainability conference at Schmidts Tivoli on Friday in cooperation with Green
Events Hamburg and The Changency. - Jamal Chalabi (tour manager Yungblud / Massive Attack; head of touring A Greener
Futures, UK) - dr Daniela Jacob (lead author of the 1.5 degree special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC,
Climate scientist, director of the Climate Service Center GERICS at the Helmholtz
center Hereon) - Tabea Kaplan (Tourmangemement Die Ärzte, management of the department
benefit events, loft concerts) - Michael Kellner (Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economics and
climate protection) - Daniel Schneider (Member of the Bundestag in the Culture & Environment Committee; Founder
dike fire festival) - Sanne Stephansen (Head of Sustainability, Roskilde Festival, DK)
Stephan Thanscheidt (co-CEO FKP Scorpio)
Topics and participants can change at short notice