BreakOut West 2025 returns to Winnipeg, Manitoba! This year’s event will feature four days of informative and engaging music industry conference content, including international market deep-dives, one-on-one meetings with music industry professionals, artist mentorship and feature conversations, networking events, and more. To get you excited to make important industry introductions at BreakOut West we wanted to introduce another four delegates you can meet this September.
Andrea Kirwin – Peace Run Records and Agency
Andrea Kirwin is an Australian/Fijian singer-songwriter and director of Peace Run Records and Agency, a First Nations artist let company that acts as a label, agency and boutique touring company out of the Sunshine Coast, QLD. Having first visited Break Out West in 2022, Andrea has successfully hosted 2 Canadian artist for their debut Australian tours across the folk festival circuit drawing on her 20 years as a performing artist to curate the tours with Festival bookings, regional hall shows and house concerts. She’s also assisted Canadian artists with shows in Queensland while out on tour and hiring gear for Woodford Folk Festival performances, her local Festival which she also assists with programming. Andrea’s also co-programmer for Island Vibe Arts and Music Camp out in Noosa QLD and has been a guest programmer for other Festivals such as Caloundra Music Festival, Rockhampton River Festival and more. Andrea’s also launching a Bus Stage later this year which will feature at QLD Festivals later in 2025 and aims to continue to activate regional towns with live music events through returning to venues and putting on seasonal concerts. Andrea also runs a queer choir in her town of Nambour as a proud member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Joshua Rabinowitz – Brooklyn Music Experience
Josh Rabinowitz has had his hands—his ears, his instincts, his obsessions—all over more than 10,000 tracks, each one sneaking its way into the collective unconscious via brands, TV, film, and major labels. At Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, he was the first-ever Music Jury President. His 14-year stretch as Grey’s Music Head, preceded by 7.5 years at Y&R, played out like a long, strange trip through the intersection of music and commerce, where art and advertising slow-danced, bickered, and occasionally made something sublime.
As a professor at Berklee, The New School, and Brooklyn College, Rabinowitz has mentored, provoked, and occasionally bewildered over 2,000 students, pushing them to grapple with the way music infiltrates and shapes our culture. His consultancy, Brooklyn Music Experience, is part think tank, part crystal ball, helping artists and brands navigate an industry that reinvents itself every five minutes.
He remains obsessed with the messy, magical ways music collides with everyday life—the way a single chord change can rewire a memory, or the way a song buried in an ad can suddenly mean everything. His work lives in the background and foreground, in that strange space where sound becomes feeling.
Héctor Vázquez – DOMO
Héctor Vázquez is a music supervisor with over 12 years of experience in the mexican music industry, where he has collaborated with artists, record labels, publishers, and content platforms. His career began in artist
management, working closely with emerging projects on international tours and festivals, and later evolved into music supervision and licensing for
film, television, and advertising.
He is the founder of DOMO, a creative agency specializing in music services for audiovisual productions. Through DOMO, he has worked as a music supervisor for high-profile feature films, series, documentaries and campaigns collaborating with platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Paramount+, ViX, Universal+ and brands such as Aeroméxico, Modelo and Victoria.
In addition to his work in film and TV, he manages DOMO Music Publishing, a boutique publishing company specialized on developing emerging talent in Mexico.
His work stands out for its sensitive and strategic curation that bridges storytelling and sound, as well as for his deep knowledge of the emerging Latin American music market building a comprehensive practice that connects the cultural and commercial industries from both a creative and legal perspective.
Sandra Pulido – Arts & Crafts México
Sandra Pulido was born and raised in Mexico City, growing up with creativity everywhere in her life. She studied graphic design but always found her connection with music. She came into the scene by promoting local shows and writing for some media outlets. Now, with more than 10 years in the music industry and experience across DSPs, radio, press campaigns, music marketing, management and more in Mexico and LatAm, she has worked with a slew of artists from both Mexico and around the world (USA, Australia, Canada and more) while also has worked on site with her artists in great venues like Plaza Condesa, Pepsi Center and Palacio de los Deportes and such respected festivals as Corona Capital CDMX and Guadalajara, Vive Latino, Pa’l Norte Monterrey, Ceremonia and others. In 2025, she just completed 8 years as Label Manager at the independent label Arts & Crafts México and at the same time she is developing the MOVIDA MÚSICA agency as a partner and General Manager, the agency is established between Los Angeles and Mexico City.