Organized by ROSA (Dansk Rock Samrâd Saltholmsgade), organization working for the development of rock in Denmark, the Spot festival is dedicated to promote and expand this musical genre in Northern Europe by discovering and looking for the new artists of tomorrow. Music professionals as well as amateurs now consider SPOT, the annual festival set in Aarhus, as a Danish reference and the country’s most influential festival.
SPOT’s goal is to discover new bands with personality, musical integrity and that special something that turns an artist into a success and that helps building up to a new sound. New bands are therefore given the opportunity to test their abilities live and maybe to start a career while the mood is guaranteed by some of the previous participants that gained fame and notoriety on the way. With roots in rock music, the festival has been growing up to open its scenes to new genres and styles so that everyone’s artistic appetite is fulfilled: pop, jazz, R&B and hip hop, folk etc. The most important is to experiment live music and the nine scenes of the festival allow to more or less ninety bands to take a chance and give their best during the ten days that lasts the festival.
One doesn’t come to the SPOT just for the music. With that constant desire to take the Danish music industry to a new level, professionals of the industry give everyone the chance to participate to workshops, classes and lectures.
Preparing the future, the SPOT festival is a gathering point between the artists and the public, the professionals of the industry and the media, all that in the name of music.
The 12th edition of the SPOT will begin by the beginning of June.