It may not be as well-known as the Eurovision Song Contest, but the 2nd Golden Melody Song Festival-due to take place in Paralimni on 27-28 February Sunday and Monday- has attracted talented participants from countries including Cyprus.
Contestants have come from as far away as Thailand and Denmark. The event will be held at Rythmos Theatre in Paralimni at 8pm an Sunday and 7.30pm on Monday and shown live on the Golden Melody website www.goldenmelodycy.com.
The head of the panel of judges with a 70% share in choosing the winner-the other 30% will be through SMS votes by viewers from around the world- is Anne Marie David, who won the Contest in 1973 for Luxembourg-although she is French-with the song’ Tu te reconnaitras’.
Speaking at Golden Melody song Festival event yesterday, David said that she was very happy to be visiting Cyprus for the first time, jokingly apologising for not learning Greek in time.
she said that she had been interested in the Golden Melody Song Festival since meeting the head of its organising committee, Michalis Antoniou, who created the song representing Cyprus at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with felloe organiser Andreas Anastasiou, last year.
Antoniou is also the President of Cyprus ‘ Eurovision Fan Club.
“He was so enthusiastic about doing something for his own country that I immediately said yes when he invited me to become involved because, unless you’re in a large country like America, it’s very difficult to do something like this and I wanted to help.”
David also revealed that she was hoping to create a similar competition in her native France soon.
Showing clips of the 19 participants featuring the Famagusta area’s beauty spots. Antoniou said that the number would have been that the number would have been 20 if the Israeli entry had not been shortlisted to represent their country at Eurovision and become committed to a related event also taking place on Monday.
Antoniou said that this was a marked increase on last year’s 13 participants and noted that this year’s group had been selected from amongst 52 entries from 32 countries.
The festival will be presented by young Cypriot singer Marios Tofis and Romanian performer Mihai Radu, both of whom will also be performing on stage along with another young Cypriot singer , Cristina Matsa.
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