Het Grote Songfestivalfeest


Het Grote Songfestivalfeest was a Dutch live television concert programme starring artists of the Eurovision Song Contest from the past sixty-four years and a pre-event prior to the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest which was to be held in Rotterdam prior to its cancellation. The concert took place on 15 December 2019 at the Ziggo Dome, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tickets were on sale via Ticketmaster. The event was produced by PilotStudio in collaboration with the Dutch broadcaster, AVROTROS and was broadcast on New Year's Day 2020.

Presenters

The show was originally planned to be hosted by Dutch Eurovision commentators Cornald Maas and Jan Smit, however the latter had to withdraw due to illness and was later replaced by one of his Eurovision 2020 co-hosts, Edsilia Rombley. Rombley who represented the Netherlands in the 1998 and 2007 contests and performed her entries during the concert. Former Dutch spokesperson Emma Wortelboer and Tim Douwsma, and Junior Eurovision Song Contest commentator Buddy Vedder also appeared as presenters during the show introducing some of the acts.

Performances

Thirty-one Eurovision acts from seventeen countries participated in the concert.
OrderBroadcastYearCountryArtistSongLanguage
0101Sergey Lazarev"You Are the Only One"English
0202Ruslana"Wild Dances"English, Ukrainian
03Charlotte Perrelli"Hero"English
0403Dana International"Diva"Hebrew
05Sergey Lazarev"Scream"English
06Izhar Cohen"A-Ba-Ni-Bi"Hebrew
0704Sandra Kim"J'aime la vie"French
08Marie Myriam"L'oiseau et l'enfant"French
09Anne-Marie David"Tu te reconnaîtras"French
10Corinne Hermès"Si la vie est cadeau"French
1107Edsilia Rombley"Hemel en aarde"Dutch
1107Edsilia Rombley"On Top of the World"English
12rowspan="3" Marlayne and Mandy"Alles heeft ritme"Dutch
12"One Good Reason"Marlayne and MandyEnglish-
12"Waterloo"Marlayne and MandyEnglish-
1306Getty Kaspars"Ding-a-dong"English
1409Emmelie de Forest"Only Teardrops"English
15Niamh Kavanagh"In Your Eyes"English
16Eimear Quinn"The Voice"English
1708Charlotte Perrelli"Take Me to Your Heaven"English
1805Katrina Leskanich"Love Shine a Light"English
1910Keiino"Spirit in the Sky"English
21Jørgen Olsen"Fly on the Wings of Love"English
2112Lenny Kuhr"De troubadour"Dutch
2213Ruth Jacott"Vrede"Dutch
2314Nicole"Ein bißchen Frieden"German, Dutch
2415Johnny Logan"What's Another Year"English
2415Johnny Logan"Hold Me Now"English
2516Linda Martin"Why Me?"English
2617Gali Atari"Hallelujah"Hebrew, English
2718Netta"Toy"English
2819Serhat"Say Na Na Na"English
29Ell and Marlayne"Running Scared"English
3011Mahmood"Soldi"Italian
3120Verka Serduchka"Dancing Lasha Tumbai"German, English
3221Eleni Foureira"Fuego"English
3322Loreen"Euphoria"English

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Withdrawn artists

The original list of the performers also included Willeke Alberti, the Dutch representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, who missed the show because of an illness. Eurovision winners Finnish hard rock band Lordi and Russia's Dima Bilan were appealed to perform, but later they cancelled their participation. Helena Paparizou was also invited, but she couldn't make it because she was having a live broadcasting with The Voice of Greece. She sent a video message in which she sang the refrain of her 2005 winning song "My Number One".

Broadcasting

In the Netherlands, Het Grote Songfestivalfeest aired on 1 January 2020 on NPO 3 at 20:25 and on BVN at 21:40. The concert was later broadcast in Greece on ERT1. The first part aired on 29 February, with the second following the next day. The concert also aired in Australia on 10 May at 20:30 on SBS Viceland. The concert was known as The Road To Eurovision 2020: The Winners and was part of an alternate Australian Eurovision broadcast that took place from 10–17 May 2020 due to the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

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