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Europe’s best festivals announced
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 14 January 2010
Ahead of the first main day of Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen today, the very first European Festival Awards took place there last night, a pan-European version of the UK Festival Awards staged by VirtualFestivals.com. And judging by the results of the first edition of these punter voted awards, we should all be spending our festival seasons in Belgium. The winners were as follows:
Punter voted awards…
Best Major Festival: Heineken Open’er Festival (Poland)
Best Medium-Sized Festival: Dour Festival (Belgium)
Best Small Festival: Cactusfestival (Belgium)
Best New European Festival: Openfields Festival (Belgium)
Best Line-Up: Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Festival Anthem Of The Year: Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Best Artist Newcomer: White Lies
Best Headline Artist: The Prodigy
Judging panel voted awards…
Green ‘N’ Clean Festival: Öya Festivalen (Norway)
Artists’ Favourite Festival: Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Promoter Of The Year: Herman Schueremans (Live Nation, Belgium)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jan Smeets (Pinkpop, The Netherlands)
Commenting on the inaugural event, VirtualFestival.com’s Steve Jenner told CMU: “We are delighted to affirm that the inaugural European Festival Awards has been a great accomplishment for us in terms of the volume of interest and participation generated on a pan-European level by both the public and industry, which surpassed our expectations for year one. We look forward to building on this initial success and taking it to great heights in future with our partners Yourope and Eurosonic Noorderslag”.
