Dua Lipa wins European Border Breakers Public Choice Award
The winners of the 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (the ‘EBBA'), the European music awards for emerging artists, were honoured this evening at the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in the Dutch city of Groningen. Dua Lipa came out as the big winner of the evening, taking away the ‘Public Choice Award’ by an overwhelming amount of online voters.
Dua Lipa is a cool singer-songwriter from London, who writes love songs with a grand sound and a twist: strings, melancholic lyrics, electronic beats and dark, sensuous vocals. Hits include Be The One, Last Dance and Hotter Than Hell, proving that Dua Lipa is a mature artist in her own right, with a bright future ahead of her. Over the last year, she performed at a multitude of European festivals, including Lowlands, Frequency, Pukkelpop and Way Out West and charted in countries such as Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
The EBBA show also featured outstanding performances by all 2017 winners: Alan Walker (no), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (fi), Namika (de), Hinds (es), Filous (at), Jain (fr), Dua Lipa (gb), Natalie La Rose (nl) and Walking on Cars (ie). Also, and EBBA was awarded to Era Istrefi (al). In the upcoming year the EBBA TV show will be broadcasted by several European public channels.
Parts of the show can be watched through the EBBA's Youtube channel. [link: https://www.youtube.com/user/EBBAAWARDS]
The EBBA are funded under the European Union's (EU) Creative Europe programme. With the EBBA, the European Union wishes to highlight the success of 10 emerging European artists in selling albums and touring outside their home territory.
The EBBA
The EBBA celebrate new and border-breaking artists who are creating today and tomorrow's music. From Adele (gb) to Christine & the Queens (fr), the EBBA winners represent some of the standout European sounds of recent years. Other previous winners include Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Hozier, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford & Sons, Aurora, Disclosure, John Newman, C2C, Tokio Hotel, The Script, Years and Years, Robin Schulz, Carnival Youth, MØ and Selah Sue. Last year, 14 public TV stations televised the 2016 award show, which included performances by Oscar and the Wolf (be), Aurora (no) and Álvaro Soler (es).
From groups of enthusiastic gig-goers out on the weekend, through to an industry dedicated to making the music you love, ‘Music Moves Europe’. The EBBA is just one of the ways that the EU celebrates European popular and contemporary music, bringing the artists, the industry and the fans together to celebrate and enjoy the best of European music.
Every year, 10 European artists receive an EBBA in recognition of their success in countries other than their own. This success is measured by:
- airplay
- sales
- live performances in Europe
- position in the European Border Breakers Charts
The European Border Breakers Charts - launched earlier this year and compiled by Radiomonitor - rank tracks from around Europe based on airplay outside the act’s country of origin.
To be eligible for the 2017 awards, the artists must have achieved border-breaking success with their first international release in Europe between 1 August 2015 and 31 July 2016, and also come from a country participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme.
The EBBA, now in their 14th year, are an EU Prize, organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag in partnership with the European Commission (Creative Europe) and the European Broadcasting Union, with support from Buma Cultuur, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Groningen, the City of Groningen and Music Week.
We thank SHURE for their technical support. The SHURE model 5575LE is the protected property of Shure incorporated and its subsidiaries
On Creative Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/about_en
EBBA website: www.ebba-awards.eu
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Sziget Festival announce first names for 2017
Sziget Festival, the Island of Freedom, a week-long festival holiday in Budapest has just announced the first 14 names of the line-up. The announcements will be continuous from now on, featuring not only music, but contemporary theatre, circus, art and much more! Sziget is held between 9-16 August 2017 and passes for a discounted price are available till 31st December.
Sziget Festival takes place on a beautiful green island in the middle of Budapest, where more than 500,000 Szitizens unite from more than 100 countries to celebrate. Sziget has received the award for ‘Best Major European Festival’ twice, while last year it was awarded for the festival with the ‘Best Line-Up’. The program of Sziget breaks down to more than 50 venues, where one can not only plan to see top headline acts on the Main Stage, but can experience a unique vibe, where the program is on 24/7.
Hundreds of acts and programs will be announced in the forthcoming months, now starting with 14 names, representing different genres and keeping the music line-up as colorful as always.
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike will host the spectacular End Show of the 25th Sziget, happening as the last act on the Main Stage, on the last festival day. Major Lazer will also take over the Main Stage of Sziget as a headline act, plus Tom Odell and Two Door Cinema Club.
The gigantic tent of A38 will also host numerous acts. From the very firsts here are the following: Bad Religion, DJ Shadow, Kensington, Mac DeMarco, Oh Wonder, Vince Staples, GusGus and GTA.
Kicking off the program of the Arena: Oliver Heldens and W&W are the first to be confirmed. Many more are expected to be announced for even more venues in the upcoming months.
Tickets
During the kick-off 24 hours of ticket sales, more than 25% of passes were sold, while now one can buy passes for a discounted price until 31st December.
Tickets available: www.szigetfestival.com/tickets
First names announced (in alphabetical order):
Bad Religion
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
DJ Shadow
GTA
GusGus
Kensington
Mac DeMarco
Major Lazer
Oh Wonder
Oliver Heldens
Tom Odell
Two Door Cinema Club
Vince Staples
W&W
To feel the real Sziget atmosphere watch the official aftermovie, summing up the 7 days craziness and good vibes. Click here!
For more information check website: www.szigetfestival.com
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Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
EXIT Festival launch Sea Star in Croatia
Team behind EXIT announce sister festival at the Croatian seaside!
After nearly two decades of running the most successful festival in Southeast Europe, EXIT in Serbia, with sister events in Montenegro and Romania, the EXIT team is coming to Croatian seaside!
Sea Star, a new festival in Umag held from 26-27 May at the Stella Maris resort! First announced acts include of the most popular global bands - The Prodigy, with the local favourites Dubioza kolektiv and Croatian hosts Urban&4. The new shining festival of the Adriatic Sea will present artists from the global and regional music scene on six different stages. Along with the two official festival days, festival-goers can also expect a huge warmup party on Thursday, 25 May, as well as an afterparty for the fittest on Sunday, 27 May!
Sea Star Festival, Umag: https://youtu.be/gCJ28CWyEm8
The team that holds four awards for best European festivals will now connect all four of these festivals under the same umbrella: the EXIT Summer of Love 2017. Special holiday spirited offer is now available under the tagline "1 ticket = 4 festivals”, where each ticket bought for EXIT Festival in Serbia gets you complimentary tickets to the other 3 EXIT-run festivals in Croatia, Montenegro and Romania.
Starting things off for the EXIT Summer of Love 2017 is Sea Star, a new festival in Umag held from 26-27 May at the Stella Maris resort! First announced acts include of the most popular global bands - The Prodigy, with the local favourites Dubioza kolektiv and Croatian hosts Urban&4. The new shining festival of the Adriatic Sea will present a several dozen of the most important artists in the global and regional music scene at six different stages. Along with the official two festival days, festival-goers can also expect a huge warmup party on Thursday, 25 May, as well as an afterparty for the fittest on Sunday, 27 May!
The next chapter in the EXIT’s Summer of Love 2017 is the Revolution Festival that takes place on 2 and 3 June in the charming Romanian town of Timisoara. This, also EXIT-run event has been nominated in two categories at the European Festival Awards, for Best New and Best Small Size Festival in 2016.
Right after the globally acclaimed EXIT Festival that’s being held 6-9 July at the colossal Petrovaradin fortress, adventure heads south to the fourth edition of Sea Dance festival 13-15 July! This year was once again a great success for both EXIT and Sea Dance festivals, which combined make the EXIT Adventure, a unique holiday package that took nearly 300.000 fans on a life-changing journey through the Balkans.
This massive party starts each year in the second weekend of July at the globally acclaimed EXIT Festival in Serbia, and then travels to its sister Sea Dance Festival in the neighbouring Montenegro. More than 1000 international and local artists performed at 30+ very genre-diverse stages, spanning from the colossal Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia (EXIT) to the historic town Budva in Montenego (Sea Dance)! EXIT had 4 official days and nights, with Sea Dance adding its 3, but for many the whole festival holiday lasted more than 10 days with camping next to the sandy beaches that both festivals have nearby.
To get connect it all even further, EXIT has started the biggest holiday offer in its history! Available only during the holiday season, the simply dubbed “1 ticket = 4 festivals” offer lets all current ticket holders and future ticket buyers for EXIT festival (priced at 99 EUR+b/f / £89+b/f), get free tickets to the remaining three festivals of the EXIT Summer of Love 2017 as a gift: Sea Star festival in Croatia (26-27 May), Revolution festival in Romania (2-3 June), and Sea Dance festival in Montenegro (13-15 July). The number of these tickets is extremely limited, and all buyers, current or future ones, will need to quickly register their EXIT tickets in oderd to recieve e-tickets for the other festivals. Registration will start from 1-28 February at www.exitfest.org.
Travel packages for EXIT and Sea Star Festivals at the special prices with tickets, accommodation and airport transfers will be available starting 20th December at Exittrip.org.
EXIT will celebrate 50 years since the Summer of Love 1967!
All four festivals by the EXIT team will also celebrate 50 years since the famous “Summer of Love 1967” next year, when the revolutionary hippie movement began and change the world forever by fighting for peace, freedom of speech, human rights, social, racial, and gender equalities. As the only contemporary music festival that grew from a struggle for social change and whose mission is to connect and foster growth in the region, EXIT would like to use this opportunity to protect the basic ideas from which the first music festivals came from during the end of 60s, such as Woodstock, Monterey and others, as well as to convey the messages of those movements which in today’s world are needed now more than ever.
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The European Festival Awards Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Daniel Panaitescu
Working on Sziget Festival since its inception, Daniel Panaitescu was responsible for curating’s the event’s award-winning line-up, playing no small part in the ascent of the festival into an organisation of international renown. The Island of Freedom now attracts almost 500,000 attendees from over 100 countries per year, and this cosmopolitan convergence of like-minded individuals is owed in no small part to Dan’s eminent work as an international booking manager. With the festival’s annual line-ups spanning pop, rock, electronic, metal, folk, jazz, blues, alternative and even classical, Dan ensured that the festival truly catered for everyone – making him absolutely integral to Sziget’s atmosphere of inclusivity and togetherness.
Born in Brasov, Romania on 6 November 1955, Panaitescu was a restless child whose antics caused his mother to worry whether or not he’d make to adulthood. One such incident involved him climbing up to the top of a church tower, leaving his beloved grandfather with the task of gathering the men of the village to bring him down. A similarly dangerous pastime of Panaitescu and his friends was to throw each other’s bags onto the frozen sea as far as they could and then retrieve their own.
He was educated in Constanta, and usually spent summers in the countryside, either at the parish of his grandfather or with other relatives on his father’s side. In 1974, after graduating from the Mircea Cel Bartel lyceum, he was enlisted to be a soldier in the city of Galati.
Attending university in Bucharest, Panaitescu graduated with a degree in Economics 1980. In his spare time he worked as a tour guide of the National Tourist Office during his university years and undertook various internships. Following university he was assigned to work in Sighisoara, and discovered that administering sheets and records as an economist was something he considered pointless and unfulfilling.
As soon as an opportunity presented itself, he left that life behind, instead opting to establish a kindergarten and work there as a teacher, followed by tenures as a geography teacher, a miner, and a Spanish translator.
In 1989, he fled across the border to Hungary. "Do not shoot!" was the only Hungarian expression he knew at that time. Granted political asylum, his initial plan was to go further but this didn’t come to fruition. Instead he found friends, shelter, and work in Budapest – the future birthplace of Sziget. Despite settling in the Hungarian capital, he made every effort to return to Romania to visit and support his parents, whom he maintained a close relationship with.
Starting in the early 90s, Panaitescu became actively involved in the touring and concert organisation of the following bands: Beatrice, Pokolgép, Bonanza Banzai, Pál Utcai Fiúk, Európa Kiadó, URH, Sziámi, Auróra, and Hobo Blues Band.
Constantly in motion, he was a wandering soul, deeply interested in world affairs, politics, movies, books – and of course – music. He always carried a book with him, because a book could be handy at any time. Across his lifetime he visited nearly 50 countries, and respected all local cultures. Those close to him, however, noted that he often enjoyed the journey more than the destination.
Tragically, on July 15, 2016, Panaitescu was involved in a fatal car accident in Gyulafehérvár. He is survived by two children, Ádám and Zoia, as well as their mother, Kata Hocz. The bond between Panaitescu and Hocz was considered ‘a real Sziget love’, as the latter also worked on the festival as its Head of Finance before the birth of their children.
Panaitescu’s vast contributions to the festival industry and the admiration felt towards him from those within it, at every level, are the reasons that the European Festival Awards has named him as this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The European Festival Awards will take place on January 11, the first night of Eurosonic Noorderslag, at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, The Netherlands.
OFF Festival Katowice 2017: First Acts Announced
And we’re OFF! OFF is ON for 2017!
Swans, The Black Madonna, Circuit des Yeux, and Kikagaku are the first acts announced.
OFF are proud to announce that the experimental rock legends Swans are returning to Poland for a farewell show in 2017, to be held at the OFF Festival. Swans frontman Michael Gira will also serve as curator of the Experimental Stage. Plus Black Madonna, Circuit des Yeux, and Kikagaku Moyo also join the festival lineup, taking us from a dancefloor uprising in Chicago to a psychedelic trip to Japan.
The excitement is mutual. Here’s what Michael had to say about the event:
“The OFF Festival in Poland provides the highest possible musical experience for both the audience and the performers. I once played a show on the planet Venus, and compared to OFF, it was like singing to a gang of angry inmates in a dark cell in a federal penitentiary. The scenery is out of this world, the production is lubricated and sensual, but most importantly, the beautiful Polish people in the audience guarantee a year of sleepless, dream-drenched erotic and sorrowful nights filled with impossible longing.”
…But with one minor caveat: this time Michael’s desires will be fulfilled. First, the show in Poland will be his final performance with the band in this format (the group’s future remains uncertain, but this is definitely the end of Swans in their current form), and, second, he’ll also be performing a solo concert. Finally, Michael Gira is also coming to Katowice as a guest curator of the Experimental Stage, where he’ll be responsible for an entire day’s lineup. And he does have some experience in this regard: he crafted the program for Mouth to Mouth, held as part of the excellent Dutch festival Le Guess Who.
The 2017 OFF Festival Katowice will take place August 4–6, 2017, as always at Three Pond Valley. Tickets (price: 230 pln) are now available at the OFF Shop.
When The Black Madonna takes the stage, you know it’s about to go down. We’ve invited one of the world’s most popular and respected female DJs, one whose sets rest on the delicate balance between dependable hits and bold new discoveries, a well-regarded producer, to name but Exodus and A Jealous Heart Never Rests, and a resident host at the legendary Smart Bar in Chicago, which — under her curation — has been lauded as one the best clubs in the US.
“Dance music needs riot grrrls. Dance music needs Patti Smith. It needs DJ Sprinkles. Dance music needs some discomfort with its euphoria. Dance music needs salt in its wounds. Dance music needs women over the age of 40. Dance music needs breastfeeding DJs trying to get their kids to sleep before they have to play. Dance music needs cranky queers and teenagers who are really tired of this shit. Dance music needs writers and critics and academics and historians. Dance music needs poor people and people who don’t have the right shoes to get into the club,” says The Black Madonna, a woman who’s transforming club culture before our very eyes. We’re confident that her OFF Festival performance will be a transformative experience for us, as well.
Circuit des Yeux is the artistic alter ego of the American singer Haley Fohr, but it’s not her only one: she is also known to the world as the mysterious outlaw Jackie Lynn. In Fohr’s case, it’s impossible to determine with complete certainty the boundaries between the personal and the artistic. The intimate, disturbing songs performed in a low, dark voice pluck your most sensitive heartstrings, touching your most deeply-hidden spots and emotions. To experience this for yourself, try the album In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey, 2015), recorded by Circuit des Yeux in collaboration with friends from the Chicago alternative scene: musicians involved in such projects as Cave, Bitchin Bajas, and Little Scream. Pitchfork calls it a “meditative and mesmerizing” album, and it’s hard to argue otherwise.
The name Kikagaku Moyo, as we all know, translates to “geometric patterns.” And there’s plenty of irony in that name, because while the music played by this Japanese band is full of elaborate but disciplined art-rock structures, they bend and dissolve in psychedelic acid. The musical references range from Krautrock to Indian ragas to their own local psychedelic traditions, chief among them being Acid Mothers Temple. You’ll find a sample of their sound in the OFF Festival Katowice 2017 promotional video. Kikagaku Moyo was founded in Tokyo in 2012, but they’ve already put out four albums, the latest of which, House in the Tall Grass, is a truly untethered flight into the stratosphere. Do you have the guts to get on board?
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Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
European Border Breakers Awards Celebrate New Border Crossing Talent
On 11 January 2017, the Dutch city of Groningen hosts the 14th European Border Breakers Awards, the European music show dedicated to up-and-coming bands and acts. The Awards this year go to Alan Walker (no), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (fi), Namika (de), Hinds (es), Filous (at), Jain (fr), Dua Lipa (gb), Era Istrefi (al), Natalie La Rose (nl) and Walking on Cars (ie). The awards recognise new acts based on success outside their own country. The Awards are a chance to discover and celebrate the best of contemporary European music.
All the winners will feature in the award show, presented by hosted by celebrated musician and presenter Jools Holland. The show will be recorded for TV and is available to all European public broadcasting stations.
Public Choice Award - EBBA 2017
From 5 December, fans and EBU audiences are invited to vote for their favourite artist among the winners on the European Border Breaker website (www.europeanborderbreakersawards.eu). The winner of Public Choice Award will be revealed live in Groningen.
Win a trip to the EBBA
Anyone who votes is in with a chance of winning an expenses-paid trip to Groningen for two to attend the award show. Winners will be picked by the radio stations of the European Broadcasting Union. Each winning voter will also be invited to attend a workshop hosted by the European Broadcasting Union on social media.
The EBBA
The EBBA celebrate new and border-breaking artists who are creating today and tomorrow's music. From Adele (gb) to Christine & the Queens (fr), the EBBA winners represent some of the standout European sounds of recent years. Other previous winners include Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Hozier, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford & Sons, Aurora, Disclosure, John Newman, C2C, Tokio Hotel, The Script, Years and Years, Robin Schulz, Carnival Youth, MØ and Selah Sue. Last year, 14 public TV stations televised the award show of 2016, which included performances by Oscar and the Wolf (be), Aurora (no) and Álvaro Soler (es).
From groups of enthusiastic gig-goers out on the weekend, through to an industry dedicated to making the music you love, ‘Music Moves Europe’. The EBBA is just one of the ways that the EU celebrates European popular and contemporary music, bringing the artists, the industry and the fans together to celebrate and enjoy the best of European music.
Every year, 10 European artists receive an EBBA in recognition of their success in countries other than their own. This success is measured by:
- airplay
- sales
- live performances in Europe
- position in the European Border Breakers Charts
The European Border Breakers Charts - launched earlier this year and compiled by Radiomonitor - rank tracks from around Europe based on airplay outside the act’s country of origin.
To be eligible for the 2017 awards, the artists must have achieved border-breaking success with their first international release in Europe between 1st of August 2015 and 31st of July 2016, and also come from a country participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme.
The EBBA, now in their 14th year, are an EU Prize, organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag in partnership with the European Commission (Creative Europe) and the European Broadcasting Union, with support from Buma Cultuur, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Groningen, the City of Groningen and Music Week.
We thank SHURE for their technical support. The SHURE model 5575LE is the protected property of Shure incorporated and its subsidiaries.
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For more info and artist photos contact Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
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Eurosonic Noorderslag highlights the growing music scene in Portugal
Each year Eurosonic Noorderslag highlights a different country, showcasing the diverse musical talent across Europe. This year Portugal will be the focus country taking centre stage, organised in cooperation with WHY Portugal.
Creative director of Eurosonic Noorderslag, Peter Smidt comments: “We feel not everyone is aware of the fact that the Portuguese music sector has a lot to offer to Europe and the world. They do not only have a large number of interesting new acts, but Portugal is also a country with an incredibly huge amount of festivals that offer great opportunities.”
Come and find out WHY Portugal is one of Europe’s most promising breeding grounds for new music.
Portuguese acts at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2017
A total of 21 acts from Portugal will be performing at the showcase festival in January: :papercutz, Batida presents The Almost Perfect DJ, Best Youth, DJ Firmeza, Dj Ride, First Breath After Coma, Gisela João, Glockenwise, Holy Nothing, Marta Ren & the Groovelvets, Memória de Peixe, Moonshiners, NEEV, Noiserv, Octa Push, Rodrigo Leão, Sam Alone and the Gravediggers, The Gift, The Happy Mess, Throes + The Shine and We Bless This Mess.
Find out more about the Portuguese acts at #ESNS17.
The Music Scene in Portugal
Alongside the acts playing in the festival program, the focus on Portugal continues at the Eurosonic Noorderslag conference where we delve deeper into the music and festival scene. During the conference there will be a Portugal focus lounge and WHY Portugal will be presenting the following panels:
WHY Portugal: Country Focus Panel. Come and find out WHY Portugal is one of Europe’s most promising breeding grounds for new music. With: David Ferreira (RTP), Pedro Coquenão (Batida), Márcio Laranjeira (Lovers & Lollypops) moderator: Rui Miguel Abreu.
WHY Portugal: Land of Festivals. Portugal has a population of 11 million, over 3 million festival goers and over 400 music festivals. The country is a rich and flourishing home to festivals of all sizes covering every genre. With: Ricardo Bramão (APORFEST), Vanessa Careta (Música no Coração), José Eduardo Martins (Ritmos), Moderator: Vitor Belanciano (O Público)
Eurosonic Noorderslag: Platform for European music
Eurosonic Noorderslag is the key exchange and networking platform for European music, with a proven track record for helping to break new acts on the international live music scene. Selling out each year, the event attracts more than 4,000 professional delegates, including representatives of over 400 international festivals. Each year, Eurosonic Noorderslag presents showcases by more than 350 acts alongside a conference program covering the latest developments in the international music, media, production and interactive industries.
Eurosonic Noorderslag takes place on 11, 12, 13 and 14 January 2017.
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ERA ISTREFI announced as winner of 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA)
Albanian singer Era Istrefi was announced as the tenth winner of the 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA), the European music awards for emerging artists. Istrefi was surprised at Top Albania Radio.
Born in Pristina, Istrefi debuted in 2013 as simply Era with her single ‘Mani Per Money’. Blending pop and reggae in the style of early Rihanna, the track charted in Albania and Kosovo, as did the follow-up ‘E Dehun’. Third single ‘Njo Si Ti’ charted in Belgium, but international recognition truly happened in 2015 when the single ‘Bon Bon’ became an overnight viral sensation, reaching an astonishing 133 million views on YouTube alone. Now preparing her debut album, Istrefi signed with Ultra/Sony.
Earlier, Alan Walker (no), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (fi), Namika (de), Walking on Cars (ie), Hinds (es), Jain (fr), Filous (at), Natalie La Rose (nl) and Dua Lipa (gb) were also announced as winners of an EBBA. A total of ten EBBA winners have now been announced. The Awards Ceremony will take place on 11 January 2017 in Groningen, as part of the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival.
The EBBA
The EBBA celebrate new and border-breaking artists who create today and tomorrow's music. From Adele (United Kingdom) to Christine & the Queens (France), the EBBA winners represent some of the standout European sounds of recent years. Other previous winners include Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Hozier, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford & Sons, Aurora, Disclosure, John Newman, C2C, Tokio Hotel, The Script, Years and Years, Robin Schulz, Carnival Youth, MØ and Selah Sue.
From the group of enthusiastic gig-goers out on the weekend to the industry dedicated to making the music you love, Music Moves Europe. The EBBA are one of the EU's ways of celebrating European popular and contemporary music, by bringing the artists, the industry and the fans together to celebrate European music.
Every year, 10 European artists receive an EBBA to recognise their success in countries other than their own. This success is measured by:
- airplay
- sales
- live performances in Europe
- position in the European Border Breakers Charts
The European Border Breakers Charts, launched earlier this year and compiled by Radiomonitor, rank tracks from around Europe based on airplay abroad.
To be eligible for the 2017 awards, the artists must have achieved border-breaking success with their first international release in Europe between 1 August 2015 and 31 July 2016 and come from a country participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme.
The EBBA, now in their 14th year, are an EU Prize, organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag in partnership with the European Commission (Creative Europe) and the European Broadcasting Union, with support from Buma Cultuur, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Province of Groningen, the City of Groningen and Music Week.
Public choice
One of the winners will receive a Public Choice Award based on votes cast on the EBBA website from 5 to 23 December 2016. Up to ten voters, chosen at random from different countries, will be invited to the award ceremony. Each will be able to bring a friend and the flight and hotel costs will be taken care of.
EBBA ceremony
The winners will receive their award in a ceremony hosted by TV personality and musician Jools Holland at the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in Groningen, Netherlands, on 11 January 2017. The ceremony will feature performances by the winning acts.
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Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
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DUA LIPA wins European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA)
Dua Lipa is announced as winner of the 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA), the European music awards for emerging artists.
Dua Lipa is a cool singer-songwriter from London, who writes love songs with a grand sound and a twist: strings, melancholic lyrics, electronic beats and dark, sensuous vocals. Hits include Be The One, Last Dance and Hotter Than Hell, proving that Dua Lipa is a mature artist in her own right, with a bright future ahead of her. Over the last year, she performed at a multitude of European festivals, including Lowlands, Frequency, Pukkelpop and Way Out West and charted in countries such as Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
Earlier, Alan Walker (no), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (fi), Namika (de), Walking On Cars (ie), Hinds (es), Jain (fr), Filous (at) and Natalie La Rose (nl) were also announced as winners of an EBBA. A total of ten EBBA winners will be announced in the upcoming weeks. The Awards Ceremony will take place on 11 January 2017 in Groningen, as part of the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival.
The EBBA
The EBBA celebrate new and border-breaking artists who create today and tomorrow's music. From Adele (United Kingdom) to Christine & the Queens (France), the EBBA winners represent some of the standout European sounds of recent years. Other previous winners include Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Hozier, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford & Sons, Aurora, Disclosure, John Newman, C2C, Tokio Hotel, The Script, Years and Years, Robin Schulz, Carnival Youth, MØ and Selah Sue.
From the group of enthusiastic gig-goers out on the weekend to the industry dedicated to making the music you love, Music Moves Europe. The EBBA are one of the EU's ways of celebrating European popular and contemporary music, by bringing the artists, the industry and the fans together to celebrate European music.
Every year, 10 European artists receive an EBBA to recognise their success in countries other than their own. This success is measured by:
- airplay
- sales
- live performances in Europe
- position in the European Border Breakers Charts
The European Border Breakers Charts, launched earlier this year and compiled by Radiomonitor, rank tracks from around Europe based on airplay abroad.
To be eligible for the 2017 awards, the artists must have achieved border-breaking success with their first international release in Europe between 1 August 2015 and 31 July 2016 and come from a country participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme.
The EBBA, now in their 14th year, are an EU Prize, organised by Eurosonic Noorderslag in partnership with the European Commission (Creative Europe) and the European Broadcasting Union, with support from Buma Cultuur, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Province of Groningen, the City of Groningen and Music Week.
Public choice
One of the winners will receive a Public Choice Award based on votes cast on the EBBA website from 5 up to 23 December 2016. Up to ten voters, chosen at random from different countries, will be invited to the award ceremony. Each will be able to bring a friend and the flight and hotel costs will be taken care of.
EBBA ceremony
The winners will receive their award in a ceremony hosted by TV personality and musician Jools Holland at the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in Groningen, Netherlands, on 11 January 2017. The ceremony will feature performances by the winning acts.
Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
Nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
ETEP final results for 2016: A record-breaking year!
This year, the European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP) has generated a record-breaking number of shows by European artists on festivals across Europe. With 404 shows by 148 European artists, ETEP continues to stimulate cross border success of European artists and helps build artists' European and international careers.
Results
ETEP 2016 has resulted in a total of 404 shows by 148 artists from 27 different European countries. These astonishing numbers bring the grant total to 3091 shows by 1082 artist on 100 ETEP festivals since 2003. For 2016, these are the top scoring countries with their top scoring ETEP act:
AURORA NO 13
Blossoms GB 12
Liima DK/FI 8
My Baby NL 7
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the Jane Fonda
Aerobic VHS? FI 6
Fews SE 6
Leyya AT 6
The Academic IE 6
Lost Frequencies BE 5
Jain FR 5
Looking forward: ETEP 2017
We proudly welcome Maifeld Derby Mannheim, Milhões de Festa, Spring Break Showcase Festival & Conference, United Islands of Prague and Zürich Openair to ETEP in 2017. With them joining the ETEP family even more opportunities will be generated for European artists to showcase their music.
Why ETEP?
The European Talent Exchange Programme was introduced to make the “exchange” of European artists across Europe possible on a greater scale than ever before. An initiative of Eurosonic Noorderslag, ETEP facilitates the bookings of European acts on European festivals and generates extensive radio and media exposure for these artists in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union and local media. In this way, ETEP aims to give a boost to the careers of European acts across the continent.
ETEP online
In 2017, over 100 festivals will participate in the European Talent Exchange Programme. Interested to see which festivals, artists, and countries are currently participating and have participated in the past? Please visit www.etep.nl for more information.
Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk