Fact 2020: Live
Fact 2020: Live
This year, the world’s dancefloors, venues and festivals largely went quiet in the face of a global pandemic.
Despite all this, artists, festivals and clubs did everything they could to keep the music alive, adapting to a socially distanced world with livestreams, remote festivals and filmed performances that responded to the COVID-19 era.
Festivals such as Unsound and Semibreve turned their IRL festivals into communal online events, while Refraction Festival created an entirely new concept to being live music to people’s homes. We began a new series, Fact Live, in which we invited artists to film sessions at 180 The Strand.
Semibreve Festival 2020: Laurel Halo
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Semibreve Festival 2020: Laurel Halo
Filmed at the 2020 online edition of the Portuguese festival.
In October, Portugal’s Semibreve Festival held an online edition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival commissioned artists to perform at Braga’s 17th century Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães, with the performances filmed by Portuguese culture channel Canal180.
“In the year Semibreve reaches 10 editions, we were forced to think of an alternative edition, which takes on the idea of seclusion to present a program to be enjoyed at distance, without neglecting the participation of the community in which we operate,” the festival says.
Semibreve Festival 2020: Gustavo Costa
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Semibreve Festival 2020: Gustavo Costa
Filmed at the 2020 online edition of the Portuguese festival.
In October, Portugal’s Semibreve Festival held an online edition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival commissioned artists to perform at Braga’s 17th century Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães, with the performances filmed by Portuguese culture channel Canal180.
“In the year Semibreve reaches 10 editions, we were forced to think of an alternative edition, which takes on the idea of seclusion to present a program to be enjoyed at distance, without neglecting the participation of the community in which we operate,” the festival says.