Sample List of Eligible Showcase Events 2021-2022 Published June 2021 Please be advised that this is not an exhaustive list of eligible showcase events. If you do not see your event listed here, please contact your Project Coordinators at FACTOR before applying. Click on the Showcase name to access their website for further details.

Showcase Location A3C Music Festival & Conference Atlanta, Georgia AfroChic Diaspora Fest Accra, Ghana Afrochic - Inspired Miami Miami, Florida Alberta Electronic Music Conference Calgary, AB Americana Music Association Conference Nashville, Tennessee Amsterdam Dance Event Amsterdam, Arabaki Rockfest Sendai, Japan Arts Midwest Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota Arts Northwest Conference Boise, Idaho Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta (ATAA) Fort Saskatchewan, AB ArtsMarket Showcase Durham, North Carolina ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo Los Angeles, California Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) New York, New York Atlantic Music Expo Praia, Cabo Verde Australia Music Week Sydney, Australia Big Sound Music Conference Brisbane, Australia BIME Pro Barakaldo, Spain Black Music Month Conference Awards Buffalo, New York Blues Summit Toronto, ON Bob Marley Birthday Bash Negril, Jamaica Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival London, England Boston Early Music Festival: Fringe Boston, Massachusetts BreakOut West Whitehorse, Yukon British Columbia Country Music Association British Columbia Buenos Aires Feria Internacional de la Música (BAFIM) Buenos Aires, Argentina Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions (CAFE) Halifax, NS

Eligible Showcase List | June 2021 1 Canadian Country Music Week (CCMA/CCMW) Calgary, AB Canadian Folk Music Awards Charlottetown, PEI Canadian Music Café Toronto, ON Canadian Music Week (CMW) Toronto, ON Canadian Organization of Campus Activities (COCA) Niagara Falls, Ontario CAPACOA Ottawa, ON Chamber Music America Conference New York, NY CIMA Showcases (e.g. Canadian Blast) Various CINARS Biennale Montreal, QC Circle of Sisters Conference New York, NY Circulart Medellín, Colombia CMAOntario New Faces Showcase Ottawa, ON Cologne on Pop (C/O Pop Festival) Cologne, Germany CoMa Festival - Convenção de Música e Arte Brasilia, Brazil Contact East Conference Charlottetown, PEI Country Music Awards Festival (CMA) Nashville, Tennessee Creative Control Columbus, Ohio East Coast Music Awards and Conference St. John’s, NL Emerge Impact + Music Las Vegas, Nevada Eurosonic Festival Groningen, Netherlands End of the Road Festival Salisbury, England Favela Sounds - Brazil Brasilia, Brazil Festival 506 Moncton, NB Festival Aurores Montréal Paris, France Festival de Musique Émergente (FME) Rouyn-Noranda, QC Festivals & Events Ontario (FEO) Toronto, ON Festival Marvin En CDMX Mexico City, Mexico FIMPRO (The International Music Fair) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fluvial Valdivia, Chile FOCUS Wales Wrexham, Wales Folk Alliance International New Orleans, Louisiana Folk Music Ontario Conference (FMO) Mississauga, ON FolkNorth New Orleans, Louisiana Future Echoes Sweden Future Music Forum Barcelona, Spain Global Toronto Toronto, ON GMA Canada Week (Gospel Music Association) Edmonton, AB Halifax Pop Explosion Halifax, NS Honey Jam Toronto, ON Eligible Showcase List | June 2021 2 IBMA World of Bluegrass Raleigh, North Carolina Iceland Airwaves Reykjavik, Iceland IFEA Convention and Expo Williamsburg, VA Indie Week Toronto, ON Inside Scoop from Music Supes Nashville, TN International Blues Challenge Memphis, Tennessee International Entertainment Buyers Association (IEBA) Nashville, Tennessee International Indigenous Hip Hop Award & Trade Show Virtual Jamaica Music Conference Kingston, Jamaica Jazzahead Bremen, Germany Juno Week Saskatoon, SK Kansai Music Conference Osaka, Japan Le Phoque Off Quebec, Canada Linecheck Milan, Italy Lisbon International Music Network Lisbon, Live at Heart Örebro, Sweden Live at Heart NL Newfoundland and Labrador Live On Stage National Conference Nashville, Tennessee Liverpool Sound City Liverpool, England Long Winter Toronto, ON LUCfest Taiwan Taiwan M for Montreal Montreal, QC MaMA Festival and Convention Paris, France Manito Ahbee Winnipeg, MB Manitoba Arts Network Showcase Winkler, MB Manitoba Music Export in LA Los Angeles, California Manitoba x Minnesota Exchange Various Mastering the Music Business Bucharest, Romania Megaphono Ottawa, ON Miami Music Festival Miami, Florida Mid-Atlantic Performing Arts Market Lancaster, Pennsylvania MIDEM Cannes, France Midwest Music Exchange Winnipeg, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee Millenium Music Conference Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Mondo NYC New York, New York Mundial Montreal Montreal, QC MUSEXPO Burbank, California Music Connex London, England Music Matters Singapore Eligible Showcase List | June 2021 3 Music NL Week Corner Brook, NL Music Nova Scotia Week Truro, NS Music PEI Week Charlottetown, PEI MUTEK Various NACA Northeast Regional Conference Hartford, Connecticut National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Anaheim, California New Colossus Festival New York, New York New Skool Rules , Netherlands North East Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Stamford, Connecticut Northern Exposure Wells, BC Northern Touch Music Festival & Conference Winnipeg, MB Northside Festival Brooklyn, New York Northwest Folklife Festival Seattle, Washington NRMAL Festival/NODO Mexico City, Mexico Nuit Boreale Paris, France Ohio Arts Presenters Network Mansfield, Ohio Ontario Contact St. Catharines, ON OSAC Regina, Saskatchewan Pacific Contact Burnaby, BC Performing Arts Exchange Orlando, Florida Pop Montreal Montreal, QC Pop-Kultur , Germany Primavera Sound/Pro Barcelona, Spain Printemps de Bourges Bourges, France Quebecofolies France / Belgium Reeperbahn Hamburg, Germany Rencontres Trans Musicales Rennes, France RIDEAU Montreal, QC ROSEQ Quebec Southwest Regional Folk Alliance (SWRFA) Chattanooga, Tennessee Sao Paolo Music Week (SIM) São Paulo, Brazil Sled Island Calgary, AB SonarPro Barcelona, Spain SS Cape May Cape May, New Jersey Swn Fest , Wales SXSW Austin, Texas Tallinn Music Week Tallinn, Estonia The Great Escape Festival Brighton, England The Inferno Festival and Conference Oslo, Norway Eligible Showcase List | June 2021 4 Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Nashville, Tennessee Treefort Music Fest Boise, Idaho Up Here Urban Art & Music Festival Sudbury, ON Upstream Festival & Summit Seattle, Washington Visa for Music Rabat, Morocco Waves Vienna Vienna, Austria Western Arts Alliance Los Angeles, California Westway LAB Festival Guimaraes, Portugal What’s Next in Music Vilnius, Lithuania Where’s the Music? Norrköping, Sweden Whistler Film Festival Whistler, BC WOMEX (The World Music Expo) Tampere, Finland Wonderhorse Whitehorse, Yukon YouBloom – Los Angeles Dublin, Ireland Zandari Festa Seoul, South Korea

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