We are more than happy to present this years focus countries for Waves Vienna: Portugal and Slovakia. True to the motto “East Meets West”, there will be a focus on acts from these countries in the live programme and in course of the Waves Vienna Music Conference we will furthermore devote a part of its programme to the respective music markets and scenes of these countries.

Also we are warmly welcoming our new festival mascots, a very handsome owl, to accompany us alongside the 8th edition of Waves Vienna! Same as last years mascot the owl was also designed by Philippa Grob and Franka Rothaug.