Danish music festivals must also feature Danish women

Summer in Denmark is traditionally marked by big music festivals, from rock in Roskilde to jazz in Copenhagen. However, as musician Tine Bacher states in the daily Information, only a meagre 5 percent of all performers are women: "This year the [jazz festival] poster bears the words 'Jazz has not yet been born', and the woman it shows is supposed to symbolise this birth. But what the poster doesn't show is that in fact men gave birth to jazz. ... Like all other cultural productions, music festivals are not neutral platforms. That's why the big ones like the Roskilde Festival and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival would do well to heed criticism of the extreme gender gap and actively start discussing how to get more women musicians performing on Danish stages. Anything else would be a disgrace, for music and for culture."

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