As it often happens the minor festivals are strongly influenced by the one and only Eurovision song contest. The troubled Golden Stag or Cerbul de Aur seems to be back for another year. Started back in 1968 it lived only 4 years (with winners coming from Belgium, Romania, the Netherlands and Sweden) before being relaunched in 1992 (with winners from Indonesia, Lithuania, USA, Russia and Romania) before hitting another break until 2001 when Romania won it again as it did in 2002. China, Malta and Italy won the next editions. In 2008 the festival was relaunched again with a Romanian win and so this 2009 is the 16th edition.
And the list of singers is mainly very familiar reading from national selections or Eurovision itself: Sergey for Armenia, Raffaele for Belgium, Orlin "Kaffe" Pavlov for Bulgaria, Marios Tofi for Cyprus, Rolf Jr for Estonia, Laura Voutilainen for Finland, Antonino and Massimo Bertacci for Italy, Roberto Meloni for Latvia, Claudia Faniello and Glen Vella for Malta, Geta Burlacu, Pasha and Olia Tira for Moldova and Ovi for Norway amongst others Here is last year's winner Razvan Krivach with Too much love will kill you. Sweden came second with Biondo and Shine that already came second in the Romanian Eurovision selection.... eternal runner-ups?
The festival will go on from September 2 to 7 with 3 semifinals and the grand final on September 5.The night after there's a big gala with Loredana, Steve Vai and Tiziano Ferro.
The festival will go on from September 2 to 7 with 3 semifinals and the grand final on September 5.The night after there's a big gala with Loredana, Steve Vai and Tiziano Ferro.
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