Liveurope Festival at VEGA 2026

Join us for an informal networking gathering with a selection of independent Danish record labels. They will introduce their work and showcase the artists on their rosters that deserve a place on your radar.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the backstage area and learn how the venue operates.

This is an opportunity to chat with your peers about the things that impact your day-to-day work. It’s an open space to share common challenges, swap ideas for projects, and get feedback — all in an informal setting. There will be 3 roundtables: General Managers, Programmers & Communicators.

A key moment for the Liveurope team to share the latest updates with members and engage in discussions on the platform’s development and future strategies.

Before we dive into an evening of musical discoveries, join us in raising a glass to celebrate another successful chapter of Above 55° and the strong ties it continues to build between the Nordic and European music sectors. For Liveurope members and invited guests.

More info on the lineup soon!

Organised in partnership with Music Export Denmark, this session will equip up-and-coming European artists with the knowledge and tools to advance their international careers. 

The training and coaching sessions are open to the acts performing in the Liveurope Festival, as well as emerging artists and their entourage from the region.

Artists and their teams who took part in the morning workshop will be invited to join representatives of Liveurope venues from across Europe for an informal networking lunch. The session is designed to encourage conversations between Nordic emerging artists and professionals from the live music sector, creating opportunities to share experiences, build relationships, and explore future collaboration opportunities.

Music venues are more than a place for concerts, they are a space for coming together, escaping through music, and collectively imagine other possible worlds and futures.

This workshop session invites music venues to reconnect with the imagination that fuels our work: what feeds it, what power already exists in our culture and our network, and what we can do as spaces for serious imagining for change.

The workshop is guided by two questions: How can venues remain culturally independent? And, in a landscape shaped by commercial and governmental pressures, funding conditions and shifting expectations, how can we create a programme with a clear voice and a strong point of view?

Breakout Room 1: Technology in Service of Imagination

If music can give us a glimpse of other possible futures, what role should technology play in that? In this room we explore how new tech can help venues experiment, take artistic risks and stay culturally independent, rather than follow whatever the market or the streaming platforms dictate. The aim is technology that strengthens originality and honors the art and the performance, instead of replacing them. 

Facilitated by: Kevin Le Geyt

Breakout Room 2: Venues as Shared Creative Spaces

If venues are to be spaced of serious imagining change, the audience can be part of the imagining too. In this room we explore how participation, shared ownership and new formats can make the venue a place where the future is tried out, not just performed. These formats might also be an alternative to the logic of arena shows and a way to stay independent.

Facilitated by: Lene Vive Christiansen

Collaborated in partnership with SOON - - Lab for Possible Futures