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De beste wensen voor het nieuwe jaar!
Juist nu wordt cultuur steeds belangrijker, en festivals dus ook.

Hier de januari selectie van bijzondere buitenlandse artiesten die voor festivals beschikbaar zijn.
Een overzicht van al onze bands kun je op onze website vinden.

Paperclip Agency is officieel partner in de Keychange campagne, voor een betere gender-balans op podia.

We geven graag meer informatie, als je nog vragen hebt.
De rest van deze mailing is in het Engels.


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Russian protest group Pussy Riot will be back in June with an update of their breath-taking performance Riot Days
End of June, the Russian protest group Pussy Riot will be back to confront all of us with their breath-taking performance Riot Days. This performance is a combination of live concert, electronic music, projections and theater. In February the rehearsals will start for the new concept of the show.

Canadian singer-songwriter Jill Barber scores high on Spotify
The Canadian singer-songwriter Jill Barber released her album "ENCORE!" in June, full with covers of French chansons. Her warm, smooth voice gives the songs an extra depth. On Spotify she has more than 1,7 million listeners per month. Early March she will come to Europe to enchant us with her voice. She will be available for festivals too.

Dutch 10cc tour confirmed
10cc, the legendary hit machine from the '70s and '80s, will return to Dutch theaters in November 2025 for 10 shows; see the list further down below.
10cc combines pop sounds with avant-garde-twists, to create unforgettable and timeless hits such as "Donna", "The Wall Street Shuffle", "Dreadlock Holiday", "I'm Not In Love", and many, many more. The shows will feature all the greatest hits, and more, in a set of more than 1.5 hours.
Ticket sales started on Dec. 05, and the numbers are higher than ever before.

Conincx Pop Festival wins prize for "Best Initiative 2024"
Conincx Pop is a free festival in Elsloo (Lb.) in The Netherlands, one day, one stage, with a diverse line-up of local, national and international acts. The festival is run by volunteers. Last week, Conincx Pop won the pop prize for "Best Initiative 2024" from the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. This category puts special innovative projects, events or organizations in the spotlight. It is remarkable, that Conincx Pop keeps being innovative, even after celebrating its 40th edition in 2024. For more than 20 years, Paperclip Agency is the exclusive booker of this extraordinary festival. The next edition is on Saturday July 05, 2025.

 

Rob Berends writes:
A plea to re-arrange the year!
I guess you have this too: wondering why the last few months of the year are always so full! So full with work, so full with shows (especially November), so full with conferences, meetings and events. And so full with acts and events pushing you all the time.
It's as if the second half of the year is shorter than the first one!
I've often heard that the busy second half of the year is mainly because too many acts and events think 'we need our tour/event to happen before the end of this year!'.
But somehow this FOMO-explanation does not quite cut it, I think.
It might be much simpler: the second half of the working year is indeed shorter than the first! This is because in the 'western' world, the summer holiday period is focused on July/August, and that is entirely in the second half of the year!
So the working year is: 6 months in the first half of the calendar year, and 4 months in the second half.
No wonder there is too much pressure on that second half.
So here's my simple solution: change the summer holiday period, so that it runs in June and July! This means the working year has 5 months in the first half of the calendar year, and also 5 months in the second half.
Sounds good, don't you think?

Hilde Spille writes:
Diversity and fusion in food, music and life!
Dark days, not only for the season. Last month I was reading two very inspiring books, about food. The first one is "Het Voedselbos" by Mac van Dinther, with great pictures! It's about food-forest Ketelbroek, close to my hometown Nijmegen. The forest is only 15 years old, with 350 different edible plants on it, plants from all over the world, from tall trees to small herbs, all supporting each other. For more than seven years already, the harvest is richer than that of the corn fields surrounding the forest.
The second book is the recipe book "Baru Belanda" from Pascal Jalhay. It's about 'Indische' cuisine, a fusion cuisine of Dutch and Indonesian, from Dutch colonizers in Indonesia, and from Indonesian people coming to The Netherlands in the '50s, trying to cook Indonesian food with Dutch ingredients.
Coming from a close homogeneous community in a very small village, I find diversity and fusion liberating! Not only when it is about food, but also in music. That's why it is so important to me to work for artists that cross musical borders, like I Muvrini, Pussy Riot, Taimane, Elisapie. Actually, when looking at my roster, in one way or the other, all artists I work for cross musical borders.
Crossing borders means that you engage with and get inspired by what's across the border. Italian food got inspired by noodles from the far east and by tomatoes from South America. Nowadays you can't imagine Italian food without pasta or tomatoes. Rock music was inspired by blues, folk/country and new technology. When moving from Germany to The Netherlands, I got inspired by the Dutch culture. I loved it, and I was able to stay. I lost part of what was familiar to me, but I gained so much more.
The cultural diversity in me makes it easy to switch my point of view. I would wish that every one could choose the country they would love to live in. But politicians in many countries are talking again about closing the borders and to build walls. Wouldn't it be better to engage with other cultures and get inspired by them? Instead of being so afraid to lose something, we could focus on what we have to gain when getting inspired by each other.