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Eurosonic a record breaker
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 19 January 2010
Despite God’s brother Dennis trying his best to stop people getting there – he’s in charge of snow, right? – last week’s CMU supported Eurosonic Noorderslag all went down rather well, with some 2800 music industry professionals enjoying no less than 259 bands and a green room bursting with speakers over three days in Groningen.
Organisers report that both festival and conference tickets sold out in record time, the former being all bought up in just one day. There were also two award shows as part of this year’s convention, including the all new and previously reported European Festival Awards.
Commenting on this year’s event, the convention’s Creative Director Peter Smidt told CMU: “We are delighted with this extremely successful edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Very happy with the European Festival Awards, more media and broadcasts for European Border Breaker Awards, the new venues worked very well and there were some fantastic shows at Noorderslag. Thanks to everyone for their support. We’re already looking forward to our 25th edition next year”.