Early-bird Registration: Dec 30th, 2024
Regular Registration: January 25th, 2025
Registration Deadline: February 17th, 2025
February 28th - March 01st, 2025
The 2025 Awakening Music Conference is a two-day conference that offers an incredible opportunity for local and Caribbean artists to enhance their artistry, build their brand, and plan for financial sustainability. With partnerships from regional and international music tour operators, promoters, and industry executives, this event is designed to provide artists with the tools and connections they need to succeed.
The conference offers a wealth of opportunities, including performance showcases, networking, mentoring, and critiquing sessions with music industry executives, tour operators, and promoters. Artists will gain valuable insights on PR and marketing strategies, financial sustainability, and creating music that supports positive social transformation. Topics covered include tour planning, metadata management, entrepreneurship in music, vocal techniques, music marketing, and more. Don’t miss this chance to connect with like-minded individuals, learn from industry experts, and take your music career to new heights. Join us in this movement to Change the Culture, Change the Future.
Please read all the information submitted below and register today.
Register Now!!OBJECTIVES
ENGAGE | EDUCATE | EQUIP | ENDORSE | EXPORT
- Creating opportunities for the promotion and distribution of Caribbean Christian Music and Artistes; regionally and in other key markets such as the US & UK.
- Providing performance, showcase, networking, mentoring, and critiquing opportunities for artists with Music Industry executives, tour operators, promoters, and other industry stakeholders.
- Educating Artists on PR and Marketing campaign strategies towards creating better globally marketable portfolios.
- Equipping Artistes with financially sustainable strategies and tools to expand their revenue net in a small market industry.
- Empowering artistes to create music and profiles that support positive social transformation.
- Connecting youth and communities with music and artists that promote positive messages and values in a way that is engaging and relevant and inviting them to make positive lifestyle choices.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
- Rock Your World – empowering artists for positive social transformation.
- Ready for the Road – understanding the essentials of tour planning, promoting, negotiating contracts, tour budgets, and more.
- Metadata Management – the importance of accurate metadata in the digital age and how it affects music discovery, royalties, and artist visibility.
- Entrepreneurship in Music – strategies for artists to think like entrepreneurs, including branding, merchandising, managing finances, crowdfunding & fan-funding, and leveraging social media.
- Vocal Techniques and Performance Skills Workshop
- Music Marketing, Social Media, Image, and Branding – how to make yourself attractive to promoters, tour operators, and radio stations.
- The World of Sync – understanding the basics of sync licensing and deals, creating sync-ready music, revenue streams, networking, and trends.
- The Business of Music – music publishing, royalties, copyright, contracts, and deals.
and more
What are the registration dates & deadlines?
Early-bird Registration begins on December 30th, 2024, and ends on January 25th, 2025. Deadline for all registration is February 17th, 2025. Click Here to Register Now!
How can I pay for my package?
Registration is officially open! Participants can register and purchase packages on our Caribbean EKCO event page on TicketNation.bb using credit cards or Visa Debit cards. Visit https://bit.ly/2025CaribbeanEKCO-Music-Conference. Additional charges or processing fees may apply. Cash payments before the registration deadline are accepted, simply contact any of our representatives at 1-246-254-3526 or email caribbeanekco@gmail.com.
I am traveling with my band/group and want to register for the Artist Promo package, do all members have to pay that same fee?
No. Only one member is required to pay that fee all others can register for the Plus or General conference package which gives them access to the Music conference.
Can artists or persons outside the Caribbean register?
Yes. Non-Caribbean artists registered for the Artist Promo package will also have access to showcases and promotional opportunities during the festival.
Are participants required to cover their own cost of travel, accommodation and meals?
Yes. Meals are only provided during the conference based on your registered package. Caribbean EKCO has negotiated special rates with hotels and accommodation providers. Visit our festival website or contact us for more info.
Will all artistes registered with the Artist Promo package have the opportunity to perform during the festival??
No. There is no guarantee that you will be able to perform based on the limited spaces available for showcases and performances during the festival. Artists will be selected to perform or showcase based on evaluation criteria of the artist’s profile, experience, music, and content. All Promo artists will have their profiles and information posted in the conference document given to our special guests and other partnering music executives.
Can I register if I am not a Christian artist, songwriter or performer?
Yes. However, you may not be able to maximize our Artist Promo Package opportunities as our evaluation and approval process seeks to ensure that the artists and the music they produce and represent, complement our values and principles as a faith-based organization. All music promoted across our platforms and stages must conform to our Pure Music mandate.
What is the Pure Music mandate?
As a faith-based organization committed to positive social transformation, we do not support or promote any music or artists that promote violence, hatred, sexual immorality, greed, selfishness, materialism, revelry, drugs, alcoholism, idolatry, lewdness or abusive language on any of our platforms, channels or mediums. This mandate is based on research that shows a link to how music influences the mental health, behaviour, culture, and identity of youth. Our encouragement is to promote music and lifestyles based on Philippians 4:8-9.
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
