'Seodo Band·Touched Discovery' Mapo Cultural Foundation Announces Casting for M Indie Battle Performers

Performance Opportunities, Appearance Fees, and Practice Room Provided
Benefits Including Participation in Grand Theater Festival

Mapo Cultural Foundation Seoul Mapo Music Creation Center announced on the 12th that it is accepting applications for performers for the ‘2023 M Indie Yeoljeon’ until the 19th.

Mapo Cultural Foundation Seoul Mapo Music Creation Center will accept applications for the '2023 M Indie Battle' starting from the 12th.
[Photo by Mapo Cultural Foundation]

‘M Indie Yeoljeon’ is a project that started in 2019 and is now in its 5th year. It is a support program that provides a stage for unsigned independent musicians, regardless of genre, including popular music, gugak (traditional Korean music), and crossover. Any individual or team active without an agency can apply.

Eligibility requires being an unsigned artist with performance or album release activities in the past three years. Applicants must be able to perform a solo concert of at least 30 minutes and be capable of arrangement and performance if selected. Applications can be submitted by downloading the application form from the Seoul Mapo Art Center website and sending it via email.

A total of 10 teams will be finally selected through evaluation by music experts. Selected teams will receive opportunities to perform at the ‘2023 M Indie Yeoljeon,’ appearance fees (1.5 million KRW per performance), promotional marketing, studio space, stage technology, and other support.

In particular, this year, the program will be linked with a festival held on December 8-9 at the Mapo Art Center’s grand theater with a seating capacity of 1,000, providing various stage opportunities.

‘M Indie Yeoljeon’ has discovered and introduced over 40 teams in the past three years. Notable past participants include Seodo Band, the winner of the gugak competition program ‘Pungnyu Daejang,’ and Band Touch, the winner of the band survival program ‘Great Seoul Invasion.’

Seoul Mapo Music Creation Center is Seoul’s representative music creation platform that plans and operates various support projects for indie musicians, including performances, recording, album production, and networking. The Mapo Cultural Foundation has been managing it since July 2020.

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