Rivca Burns (Photograph Courtesy: vip-booking)
LONDON (vip-booking) – Manufacturing unit Worldwide has appointed Rivca Burns as its new head of music. Burns will oversee Manufacturing unit Worldwide’s year-round music program at Manchester’s Aviva Studios and the in depth music choices for the biennial Manchester Worldwide Competition (MIF).
With 15 years of expertise as a contract inventive producer, Burns has directed From the Different, residence to modern festivals like Sounds From the Different Metropolis in Salford, the experimental Fats Out Fest, and the Samarbeta music residency program. She additionally co-chairs the Larger Manchester Music Fee and serves on the Board of Manchester Music Cities.
Since 2019, Burns has produced and programmed Competition Sq. for the Manchester Worldwide Competition, remodeling it right into a key venue without cost dwell music. The 2023 version featured over 190 performers and attracted 83,000 guests. In 2021, she was honored as a Native Hero for her contributions to grassroots music on the AIM Awards.
Burns has been the appearing head of music for Manufacturing unit Worldwide since January 2024 and has already curated a number of occasions at Aviva Studios, together with the primary present from ANOHNI and the Johnsons in a decade, a three-day residency by Janelle Monáe, and a two-day in-the-round residency with Mercury Prize winner Sampha, that includes native artists The KTNA, DJ Paulette, and Isaiah Hull.
In her new function, Burns will develop a year-round program spanning numerous music genres for the versatile areas at Aviva Studios. This contains in-house concert events and collaborations with native and nationwide promoters, in addition to contributions to the biennial pageant.
Working with groups throughout the group, she’s going to improve the venue’s acclaimed acoustics and welcoming ambiance for each audiences and artists. Burns can even lead Manufacturing unit Worldwide’s efforts to help rising artists by initiatives like Manufacturing unit Sounds.
Burns said, “I’m actually excited and honored to be taking over such an enormous function inside a thriving musical neighborhood that I care so deeply about and which has supported and nurtured me for practically twenty years. I carry with me an genuine and collaborative angle, a ardour and a drive to essentially problem viewers expectations of what dwell music will be.
“Manufacturing unit Worldwide and Aviva Studios are world-class, and dealing with musicians from internationally, the UK, and regionally to thrive, experiment and wow audiences goes to be a very thrilling journey.”