A competition for amateur musicians
This municipal scheme supports 3 young groups or artists from the Metropole for several months, selected by a jury of professionals. The competition is free and open to all (students, employees, jobseekers, amateur artists...).
Registrations: from Tuesday, October 1 to Friday, November 29, 2024 (closed).
Winners of the 2025 competition
Nina Bérard (Pop/ Chanson française)
Nina Bérard, a young artist from Montpellier, is an author, composer and performer with multiple influences. Accompanied by her guitar and Looper, she constructs live music in the service of her personal and universal lyrics. "Ever since I was a little girl, I've only had one thing on my mind: the lights of a concert and thousands of people together."
Kop (Urban Pop)
A multi-faceted artist, Kop is a singer-songwriter and musician from Montpellier. He started out in classical music before moving on to jazz and contemporary music. Through his urban and pop-influenced EP, he shares his doubts, dreams and hopes with his audience.
Captain Milo (Hip-hop)
Armed with his incisive pen, Captain Milo explores rarely addressed themes such as eco-anxiety, masculinities or ordinary racism, mixing theatricality and absurdity. As a rapper and producer, he moves from trap to boom bap without ever becoming attached to the notion of gender, always favoring emotion and story. Between the poetry of Oxmo Puccino, the offbeat humor of Fab Caro and the dystopias of Black Mirror, he offers an immersive musical experience, where reflection and second degree are brilliantly intertwined.
Competition schedule
Following a call for applications in October 2024, 3 winners have been selected.
5 support modules from January to June 2025:
Structuring
Administrative organization: legal framework, SACEM rights, protection of the work, information on intermittent status, association creation...
Rehearsals, recordings, residencies
- Rehearsal rooms and a recording studio with the support of a sound technician for making demos.
- Hosting and residency of the groups by the partners and the Maison pour tous Léo Lagrange.
Promotion and artistic support
- Recordings in the Maison pour tous studio for the production of a distribution medium for the 3 winners.
- Relationships between artists and the programmers of partner venues and the Pôle Culture et Patrimoine.
Visual and media support
Studio and live photo shoots / Travelling photo exhibition / Video capture / Radio interview training module and radio and video interviews.
Concerts
- Friday February 14, 2025, 8pm: Presentation of the 3 winners "Petite scène" at the Jean Vilar theater.
- Wednesday May 7, 2025, 8:30pm: Concert by the 3 winners at the Gérard Philipe theater.
- Saturday June 7, 2025: Concert by the 3 winners at the Gazette Café.
- Saturday, June 21, 2025: concert on the City stage on the occasion of the fête de la musique
- From September to December 2025: concerts by the prizewinners within the network of médiathèques.
Partners
- Crous
- Divergence FM
- Gazette Café
- Head Records
- Kaina TV
- L'autre lieu
- Mot'son
- Radio CAMPUS
- Network of media libraries
- Théâtre Jean Vilar
- TSV
- Victoire 2