[HANASHIR:13668] Re: Grammys and the Blues

[rahel <rahel...>]

At 11:08 AM 2/26/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>The hassidic, Israeli children's and Israeli  song festival  were sort of
>Jewish Grammy's.  Also isn't there a European Festival won by an Israeli a
>few years ago.  Isn't this similiar to the Grammy's which I agree are a
>farce.


The competition in  Europe is called EUROVISION. There are representatives 
from many European countries - music groups, who have won competitions in 
their own country and who represent that country when they come to the 
Eurovison contest. It's formatted more like a beauty pageant. The winner of 
the contest achieves fame and recognition. The "home" country must host the 
competition the following year. Israel won a number of times with songs 
such as: Abanibi, Hora, Halleluyah and Hoopa Hula. These winning songs 
become sort of like National Anthems for the year because of the pride of 
having won this European Contest.

In Israel there are also national song festivals - for children's and pop 
music. It is a way of getting recognition both for the songwriters and the 
group performing the song.

Rahel


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