ABU Radio Song Festival 2015

ABU Radio Song Festival 2015
date	May 29, 2015
Host country	Myanmar
venue	National Theater, Rangoon
Broadcasting television station	MRTV
Pause filler	"Pusaka" by Rosanita Niken, Billy Talahatu & Stella
participating countries	10 contributions from 9 countries
First time participation	Maldives Myanmar
Returning participants	Indonesia Vietnam
Withdrawn participants	Australia Iran Malaysia Pakistan Sri Lanka
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The ABU Radio Song Festival 2015 was the third edition of the annual ABU Radio Song Festival . The festival, which is not a competition, took place on May 29, 2015 in the Yangon National Theater. Although the Radio Festival was originally only supposed to take place every other year, it was decided to hold it annually from 2014. Of the 17 entries that were sent in, only ten were allowed to take part in the festival. In addition to the host from Myanmar, the island nation of Maldives made its debut.

venue

venue

Countries that participated in 2015

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 2015

Yangon is a city in Myanmar and the capital of the Yangon Division. With around 4.4 million inhabitants in the actual city and 5,990,318 inhabitants in the agglomeration, Yangon is the largest city and the industrial center of the country. Up until 2005, Rangoon was the capital of Myanmar, and the seat of government was moved to Naypyidaw .

The Rangoon National Theater opened in 1991 and was largely funded by the People's Republic of China.

Broadcasting television station

As a member of ABU, "Myanmar Radio and Television" (MRTV) hosted the 3rd ABU Radio Song Festival. In contrast to the Eurovision Song Contest , the Asian version takes the form of a TV and radio festival. The 3rd ABU Radio Song Festival coincided with the Radio Asia 2015 event , which took place from May 28th to 30th, 2015. The Intervalact was presented on May 10, 2015.

Attendees

A total of 17 contributions were submitted, including for the first time from Myanmar, Palestine and the Maldives. Vietnam and Indonesia returned to the festival, Australia and Iran withdrew. The following ten contributions were selected by the ABU:

Start number	country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
1	Myanmar	Burmese	Jewel & Eastern	Mingalar Bar	Do good
2	Brunei	Malaysian	Dila	Aku milik orang	I belong to people
3	India	Hindi	Peepal Three	Naysi kushi	New happiness
4th	Indonesia	Indonesian , English	Billy Talahatu	Harmonize the soul	Bring the soul into harmony
5	South Korea	Korean	Jaewon Jung	View	view
6th	Maldives	Dhivehi	Moosa Mausoof	Farima	-
7th	Singapore	Malaysian	Sufie Rashid	Tiada pengganti	No replacement
8th	Myanmar	Burmese	Min Theik Di, Ko Linn & May Ingyin Thaw	Peaceful Earth	Peaceful earth
9	Thailand	Thai	Jack's Fruit Band	Ban khong rao	my home
10	Vietnam	Vietnamese	Dinh Thi Thanh Le	Nguyen tai do	Close to the coast

Seven contributions remained, three of which had not been withdrawn early:

country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
India	English	Padavi Deshmukh	Voice Of Women	Voice of women
Indonesia	Indonesian	Sisca Christin Dama	Selangkah lebih dekat	One step closer
Maldives	Dhivehi	Zing band	Khiyaar	option

The four remaining entries were not submitted for various reasons:

country	language	Interpreter	song	Approximate meaning in German
Malaysia	Malaysian	Rasyidah Abd Rahim	Selingkuh kasih	Deceptive love
Pakistan	Urdu	Shakeel Mahota	Pakistan Tu Meri Jaan Hai	Pakistan is my life
Palestine	Arabic	Dalal Abu Amned	Beredak	Yours
Sri Lanka	English	Shadir Ahmed & Wishmi Tharusha Hettiarachchi	Celebrate Us (Children)	Celebrate us (children)

Other countries

•  Vanuatu : On March 13, Radio Australia , which competed for Vanuatu in 2012, announced that it would not participate in 2015.

transmission

Each participating country was asked to broadcast the event during their program, along with overlaid comments and information about the festival in their local language.

•  Brunei - Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB)
•  Indonesia - Radio Republic of Indonesia (RRI)
•  Myanmar - Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ABU Radio Song Festival ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2015/05/07/arsf15-venue-for-abu-radio-song-festival-announced/
3. ↑ http://www.abu.org.my/Event-_-RAC2015.aspx
4. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2015/05/10/arsf15-interval-act-song-released/
5. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2014/11/09/myanmar-to-host-abu-radio-song-festival-2015/
6. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2015/05/29/arsf15-4-countries-withdraw-from-abu-radio-song-festival-2015/
7. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2015/03/13/australia-radio-australia-will-not-take-part/