The 24th EBU International Folk Festival took place this weekend
in Norway in the scope of the Førde festival (http://www.fordefestival.no/), one of the most
important folk and roots music festivals in Europe.
16 EBU Member Organizations supported a band/artist to perform
at the Festival: LR/Latvia, BTRC/Belarus, WDR/Germany,
DLRB/Germany, RDO-VOR/Russia, RNE/Spain, CR/Czech Republic,
NRCU/Ukraine, RR/Romania, DR/Denmark, NRK/Norway, SR/Sweden,
YLE/Finland, PR/Poland, VRT/Belgium, HRT/Croatia.
An EBU Folk Producers plenary meeting hosted by NRK was held on
Saturday, 05 July. It was an opportunity to elect the new EBU Folk
and Traditional Music Project Group:
Chairwoman
Maria Baliszewska, PR/Poland
Members
Hanni Bode, DLRB / Germany
Sirkka Halonen, YLE /
Finland
Alan Klitgaard, DR / Denmark
Leiv Solberg, NRK /
Norway
Marc Vandemoortele, VRT /
Belgium
