Visa For Music (VFM) Africa 2025 Showcases for music Professionals – Rabat, Morocco (Funded)

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Application Deadline: March 23, 2025, at 11:00 PM GMT+1.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Visa For Music (VFM) Africa. Created in 2014, Visa for Music is the primary music market and pageant devoted to Africa and the Middle East. It takes place yearly over 4 days in November in Rabat, Morocco, on the initiative of ANYA Culture, a Moroccan cultural engineering group. This pageant, devoted to selling international musical variety with a specific give attention to Africa and the Middle East, serves as an important platform for artists, music professionals, and business stakeholders. It supplies an area for networking, exchanging concepts, and fostering fruitful collaborations.

Each yr, roughly thirty bands from around the globe are chosen by a jury composed of worldwide cultural and music business professionals to carry out in entrance of an viewers of execs and festival-goers keen to find the lineup.

Requirements

– Propose a 40-minute dwell venture inside one of many following three foremost classes: Global people and fusion; Contemporary and concrete music; Electronic music (DJ and VJ).

– All members of the musical group should be over 18 years previous. 

– The group should have been energetic for not less than one yr, with a number of stage experiences (concert events from the previous yr and deliberate performances for the present yr should be supplied within the application).

– Be capable of ship a 40-minute dwell efficiency of authentic music. 

– Groups which have beforehand utilized however weren’t chosen could apply once more.

– Artists who participated in a earlier version of Visa for Music greater than three years in the past could reapply, supplied they current a brand new group or a distinct venture.

Benefits

– IMPORTANT: No artist charges, journey prices (airplane tickets, practice, and so forth.), or different bills (e.g., Moroccan visa charges) are lined. 

– A stage and vital tools might be supplied for the showcase (besides for particular necessities corresponding to guitars, basses, distinctive percussion devices, or grand pianos). 

– Airport transfers and lodging might be supplied for as much as 6 members of the group (for one to a few nights, relying on the nation of residence, in twin rooms). 

– A per diem of 500 MAD per particular person might be supplied on the day of the showcase (as much as a most of three,000 MAD per group). 

– Promotion of the showcase via Visa for Music’s in depth community (social media, newsletters, on-line advertising and marketing, and so forth.). 

– Artist passes (for group members and their supervisor) granting free entry to all Visa for Music actions.

How to Apply

tep 1: Carefully learn the Terms and Conditions for collaborating in Visa for Music.

Step 2: Complete the shape beneath, together with the next info:

• Biography (most 200 phrases).
• Group composition (full title of every member and their instrument).
• Internet hyperlinks (together with two dwell efficiency movies).
• Discography and live performance dates already accomplished/deliberate for 2025.
• Technical rider, together with backline and stage plot.
• 3 HD photographs.
• Press equipment.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Visa For Music (VFM) Africa