Hannah Couch : Early Career Promoter Fund
About:
Reb’Elle Festival – a festival aiming to reverse the average 70:30 male to female bands/artists applicable to most festival line ups. Reb’elle is a multi-stage all dayer/weekender consisting of a line up with at least 70% women/queer artists and 30% men/with male members. This was held once before in 2018 in Leeds, it will be held again in Newcastle and London in 2025. As well as music, the festival will include workshops and talk panels with the aim to create a space for women/queer people to increase and share their skills in various music areas such as DJ, songwriting, instruments as well as backstage expertise like promotion, sound engineering and music production. Talk panels will have women/queer people involved in the industry discussing their roles and experience and difficulties they may have faces, as well as an open discussion involving the audience about representation and how we can combat this. Most artists will be UK based and a prioritisation to Northern artists will be given. The main genres will be punk and hip hop but not limited to this. The festival aims to use DIY spaces committed to community and better representation. It also aims to collaborate with local organisations who work on representation and accessibility into the music industry.
The goal is to hold the festival in Newcastle and then again in London to offer opportunity for grassroots artists to play across the country as well as staff working the festival to work in different venues and network across communities. In addition, panels and audience discussions held in both locations may uncover representational differences facing different geographical locations across the UK. Ultimately, the festival will work to maximise accessibility to live music for audiences and performers across different communities and encourage a discourse of how we can improve it.
Project Description:
Reb’Elle Festival – a Festival aimed at reverting the average 70:30 male to female bands applied to most festival line ups