Thursday, 10 January 2013

European Festival Awards - the winners!



With outstanding live performances from Jake BuggC2C and Bernhoft, the 2013 European Festival Awards, held at the De Oosterpoort at the EuroSonic conference and festival in Groningen in the Netherlands, were a sell out success last night (January 9th). And, as host Ben Challis said just thirteen times to events, organisers and artistes from across Europe as the Awards were handed out, the winners are:

BEST NEW FESTIVAL  WINNER: Electro Magnetic (Germany)

BEST INDOOR FESTIVAL  WINNER: Sensation (Netherlands)

FESTIVAL ANTHEM  WINNER: Lykke Ly  I Follow Rivers

GREEN OPERATIONS AWARD WINNER: We Love Green (France)

BEST EUROPEAN FESTIVAL LINE-UP  WINNER: Rock am Ring / Rock im Park (Germany)

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR  WINNER: Of Monsters and Men 


ARTISTS’ FAVOURITE FESTIVAL  WINNER: Roskilde (Denmark)

HEADLINER OF THE YEAR WINNER: Foo Fighters

PROMOTER OF THE YEA   WINNER: Pukkelpop (Belgium)

BEST SMALL FESTIVAL   WINNER: Tauron New Music Festival (Poland)

BEST MEDIUM-SIZED FESTIVAL   WINNER: Heineken Balaton Sound (Hungary)

BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL  WINNER: Tomorrowland (Belgium)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD   WINNER: Herman Schueremans (Live Nation Belgium)

The Awards were organised by Festival Awards Limited, Yourope and EuroSonic Noorderslag and sponsored by Planet Festival, Intelligent Venue Solutions and ID&C.



The European Border Breakers Awards were also handed out at the preceding show in the Grote Zaal hosted by Jools Holland, and the international winners are
  • Nabiha (Denmark)
  • Ewert and The Two Dragons (Estonia)
  • French Films (Finland)
  • C2C (France)  winners of the overall Public Choice Award
  • Emeli Sandé (Great Britain)
  • Of Monsters and Men (Iceland)
  • Dope D.O.D. (Netherlands)
  • Amor Electro (Portugal)
  • Juan Zelada (Spain)
  • Niki and the Dove (Sweden)
 More on the EBBAs on the Eurosonic-noorderslag website

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