Roo Panes: International Showcase Fund
For:
Roo Panes at MIDEM
Event date:
5th - 8th June 2015
MIDEM is taking place across the new dates of the 5th to the 8th of June in Cannes, at the Palais des Festivals, and we here at the PRS for Music Foundation are proud to be supporting two artists invited to play at the annual event where artists, technology and brands are connected by music.
Our second artist to be funded for a showcase at MIDEM is Roo Panes. His team had this to say:
Keeping up with living in the 21st century can be exhausting. Everyone is connected to everyone else, invisible digital bloodlines stretching around the world. We awake each morning and roll over, not to a loved one, but to the glow of a Retina display. Even music can feel overwhelming: the rush of the new comes on so fast that pausing for a second can feel like missing out on everything. But sometimes taking time to just focus on one thing – one hour, one artist, one album – is not only a healthy step, but provides an unexpected window onto a talent that, otherwise, could have been lost in the cacophony of contemporary hype.
Roo Panes is a young British songwriter with a guitar to his chest and a heart swelling with hopes and dreams. A common on-paper pitch, perhaps, and one sold a thousand times before. But Dorset-born Panes has something special to offer those willing to wait a while for their favourite songs to settle into place. He is one of ten artists chosen to be part of the new Midem Artist Accelerator Programme, and thanks to the PRS Foundation, will perform at Midem 2015.
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