Music Meeting pays performers according to the Sena standard. In 2025 it will be € 330 per performing musician, per performance, and € 230 if the group has more than six musicians. If Music Meeting makes recordings at the festival, the contract stipulates that the artist owns 50% of the material and has control over the recording.
For freelancers in the core team, in 2024 we work with an hourly rate of at least € 40 per hour, excluding VAT and expenses. The collective agreement for Dutch venues applies as a guideline. This also applies to the general director who is employed by Music Meeting.
Every year we work with more than 100 volunteers and we offer internships to students from MBO, HBO and university. Volunteers receive free entrance to the festival, catering backstage and a T-shirt. Interns receive an internship allowance equal to the maximum volunteer allowance per month, for an internship of up to 20 hours per week.
Music Meeting attaches great importance to a good position of employees, volunteers and artists. We provide a safe and pleasant working environment. An external confidential advisor has been appointed to whom employees, volunteers and the board can turn.
Music Meeting also thinks it's fair that audiences pay for art and culture. In our ticket prices we take into account different spending possibilities. We offer a discount to young people aged 17 to 26. Children up to age 16 have free admission. Through the Give Away ticket we welcome people with a distance to art and culture to the festival.
On our online music channel Music Meeting All Ears, we offer free accessible content: from concert recordings to interviews, from podcasts to behind-the-scenes peeks. In this way, we want to bring our artists and their stories to the attention of the widest possible audience.
At Music Meeting we have long presented a diverse, international and adventurous program. The festival is for all ages and for anyone curious about new music. Music Meeting connects people with diverse cultural, social and economic backgrounds and aims to be a reflection of society: in front of and behind the scenes. We make an effort to reach and welcome un- or under-represented audience groups to Music Meeting. This also applies to the organization and in our partnerships. Music Meeting is affiliated with Keychange, a global network working toward gender equality in the music industry.
We want to make the festival even more accessible and actively communicate this. For people with physical disabilities and those who are sensitive to stimuli, we offer the necessary facilities.
Music Meeting is committed to creating an open, inclusive and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome and where everyone works (together) in a pleasant and respectful way within a safe working environment. A safe working environment means that everyone's physical and mental boundaries are heard, seen and respected.
We want to be a safe working environment so that at Music Meeting everyone can do their job, that everyone feels free to be themselves and share their thoughts and ideas with respect for others and without fear of negative consequences.
Undesired manners
In the way people treat each other, undesirable behavior can occur, either consciously or unconsciously: behavior in which someone oversteps someone's personal boundaries and thus makes them feel uncomfortable or even unsafe. To prevent this undesirable behavior, we have listed a number of agreements in the Code of Conduct so that expectations from Music Meeting are clear to all involved. The Code of Conduct also contains a protocol that explains who you can contact in case of undesirable behavior.
Code of Conduct
The purpose of the Code of Conduct is to ensure a working environment where everyone can work with pleasure. Every (freelance) employee, intern, volunteer and board member is expected to abide by the agreements below. The Code of Conduct is attached to the employment, assignment, internship and volunteer agreements, and is also published on the website under Fair Practice.
Artists and employees (of suppliers), who are working during the festival and/or on the festival grounds, will be informed about the Code of Conduct via contract or agreement, and in the festival and crew rider.
Download the code of conduct here.
Music Meeting has been making the festival sustainable step by step for years. Through protective measures we protect the flora and fauna in the park. As for international artists, we join green touring as much as possible and encourage musicians to travel by train as much as possible. This encouragement also goes to the public, staff and volunteers. Meals in front of and behind the scenes are vegetarian or vegan, we separate our waste and we work with recyclable PET cups. For promotional and merchandise materials, we choose sustainable options, reuse or recycle materials as much as possible.
Mores provides a safety net for workers and students in the cultural, creative and media sectors. By including the Mores logo on our website and in other expressions, we show that Music Meeting supports the activities of Mores. Contact details and more information: Mores.online