ABOUT US (ENGLISH VERSION)



ABOUT US

Other people collect stamps, we promote artists."SONGS & WHISPERS" is a live - music and artist development network.

We are presenting live music in venues in Bremen and other befriended places in Europe. We are putting on shows with international and local artist and are covering the genres: Alternative Folk, Alternative Country, Americana, Bluegrass, Singer-Songwriter and some unclassifiable music too.

The agency [ps] promotion has been running the international music network “SONGS & WHISPERS” since January 2009, cooperating with several German and European/international partners. Its aim is to support the development of German and international musicians and its focus is acoustic music in many different ways: from solo-artists to ensembles the size of an orchestra. The “SONG” in its many forms is the focus of our networking.

The network consists of the following elements:

“SONGS & WHISPERS” CIRCUITS – a monthly concert series through the northwest of Europe over 25 days. Usually, two to three artists per CIRCUIT are introduced.  The concerts are generally free to attract more people. About 30 locations take part in the CIRCUIT and the artists play there regularly every month.

“SONGS & WHISPERS” PRESENTS – Individual tours through the northwest of Europe for selected artists, after having completed a CIRCUIT. Often, these tours go along with a CD release.

“SONGS & WHISPERS” SPECIALS – Special events in exclusive locations like the “Sendesaal Bremen” which is a philharmonic concert hall. We advertise and document these events extensively. SPECIALS take place in Paris, London and other European cities and are supervised by local artists.

“SONGS & WHISPERS" FESTIVALS – Self-organised festivals or performances at festivals like BREMINALE or the FESTIVAL MARITIM. For these festivals, artists from the CIRCUIT and the PRESENTS concerts meet several times per year and tour together. These festivals also support the network.

“SONGS & WHISPERS” STUDIO – A professional recording studio which the “SONGS & WHISPERS” artists are free to use! Our “PAY AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE” approach is symbolic with our philosophy and our motivation.

“SONGS & WHISPERS” LABEL – A professional record label which distributes CD’s as well as downloads, worldwide via our renowned partners CARGO RECORDS and ZEBRALUTION.

“SONGS & WHISPERS” @ SCHOOL - Our “Edutainment” – programme which enables direct interaction between the “SONGS & WHISPERS” artists and pupils from grade 6 to 13. The pupils work together with the artist and they are encouraged to discover their own musical potential. The artists perform in schools and the pupils perform at regular CIRCUIT concerts in the evening.

If you want to get a better impression of this concept, have a look at www.youtube.com/songsandwhispers with almost 400 videos. You can find news on www.songsandwhispers.com

The whole concert series is planned and organised by the agency [ps] promotion. “SONGS & WHISPERS” does the complete work: they have the editorial staff and do the planning of the programme, the press work and communication. “SONGS & WHISPERS” looks after the artists takes care of the technical elements as well as the accommodation for the artists. Since the beginning of the “SONGS & WHISPERS” concert series, there is more and more attention from the media. An overview over the press response can be found here

RECOMMENDED: These shows feature artists we like. This is why we recommend them to you.

If you like music for itself and think you must have a listen, please feel free to look up dates of upcoming shows on our mySpace and choose your favourites to visit in person. Please become a friend via FACEBOOK and use our newsletter down below, too. Please understand that mySpace friendships are used for artist profiles only. Please sing and clap along with "our" bands and enjoy yourself as much as you can!

For our newsletter and further information please sign up for our mailing list on REVERBNATION or BLOGGER .

CHECK out "SONGS & WHISPERS" TOP friends, for the latest artists playing in our current circuit. The first TOP friends are the ones touring right now, the ones that follow are artists mentioned to play forthcoming circuits.

Please find our "SONGS & WHISPERS" youtube channel under: www.youtube.com/songsandwhispers. Here you will find all our videos from most of the Circuits.

You like the "SONGS & WHISPERS" artwork done by Tim Sutcliffe? Choose your own shirt at our "SONGS & WHISPERS" - Spreadshirt shop under: http://songsandwhispers.spreadshirt.net. Unfortunately you can only buy white shirts at our shop right now. Hopefully this problems will be solved soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.,

If you like to create your own "SONGS & WHISPERS" merchandise please use the Spreadshirt designer and search for our "SONGS & WHISPERS" themes. Design your own "Songs & Whispers" favourites here. Please type in the exact matching phrase "Songs & Whispers" and have fun. Please enjoy yourself.

Please find our English "SONGS & WHISPERS" WIKI on WIKIPEDIA under: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_%26_Whispers. Feel free to comment and add your point of view.

If you manage or promote a venue and like to be added to the monthly "SONGS & WHISPERS" CIRCUIT or if you are an artist covering the above mentioned genres... you are welcome to join in! Please get in touch and ask for details!


Please find all "SONGS & WHISPERS" venues on the: "SONGS& WHISPERS" Google map.

 If you like to know about the artist perspective of being on a "SONGS & WHISPERS" - CIRCUIT please contact artists we worked with like DAISY CHAPMAN (UK) (www.daisychapman.com), KAURNA CRONIN (www.kaurnacronin.com), (AUS), ECHO BLOOM (www.echobloom) (US)or others of course.
"SONGS & WHISPERS" is run by a bunch of human beings with pockets full of dreams and sometimes heads full of ideas, too.



Imprint: "SONGS & WHISPERS" is managed by ..
[ps] promotion, Heiko Grein, Cuxhavener Strasse 7 - 'Stauerei',
D-28217 Bremen, Germany - www.songsandwhispers.com / www.pspromotion-bremen.de/ www.dandyland.de), email: songsandwhispers@pspromotion-bremen.de