AstroVision Retro Song Festival 2

"Convergence"

## Dates

Semi Finals : TBA January

Grand Final : TBA January

## Host

Venue : Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway

Hosts : Matoma & Martin Danielle

Broadcaster : NRK

## Participants

Number of entries : 35

Debuting countries : American Samoa , Argentina , Australia , Belarus , Bermuda , Chile , Fiji , Finland , Greece , Iceland , Luxembourg , Malawi , Moldova , Phiippines , The Netherlands , Venezuela

Returning countries : None

Non-returning countries : Aland Islands , Armenia , Austria , Belgium , Brazil , China , Denmark , Guernsey , Ireland , Isle Of Man , Italy , Jamaica , Liechtenstein , Mexico , Monaco , Morocco , New Zealand , Slovakia , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , Syria , Togo

## Winner

Winner : TBA

Points : TBA

The **AstroVision Retro Song Festival #2**, often shortened **AVRSF #2**, is the second edition of the AstroVision Song Festival, a European-based fan contest.

This edition will be hosted in Norway by the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK.

## Host & Organization

Following the win of **Norway**  in AVRSF #1 brought by a-ha with their song "Take On Me", it was announced that Norway would host the next edition of the AstroVision Retro Song Festival.

After their confirmation as the host for the edition, the national broadcaster NRK began on December, 17th 2023 their internal search for their venue. A total of 5 venues applied to host the contest and were retained for discussion.

 Selected venue for hosting AVRSF #2

 Venue which was eliminated in the second phase of the selection process

 Venue which was eliminated in the first phase of the selection process

 Lillehammer
 Oslo
 Oslo
 Trondheim

     After the internal voting process, on December, 19th 2023 it was announced that the second edition of the AstroVision Retro Song Festival would be hosted in the Håkons Hall in Lillehammer, Norway.

         On the same day, the broadcaster revealed both the theme art for this edition. The theme represents an abstract sphere colored like an aurora borealis, with many light lines converging to one point, referring to this edition's slogan. The slogan of this edition is "Convergence" ("Convergence" in French), which refers to the artwork and this edition's message of making countries from all around the world converge into one place for an amazing show. The stage design is composed of two 18-meter-long and 10-meter-high parallelogram-shaped background screens which are along with two massive LED bars forming a triangular arch, a complexion of small LED lights incrusted inside it, four other LED horizontal bars and a total of 32 smaller parallelogram/shaped LED frames. A structure made of four large neon bars surrounding top projectors stands over the stage design, and the whole stage structure is surrounded by another complexion of diagonal LED lights. This structure is along with a trapezoidal-shaped podium in three levels, all surronded by neon bars and many LED lights are incrusted in the lower level.. The Norwegian broadcaster NRK justifies this stage design as *"a neo-retro approach to modern entertainment, with a stage that give tools for the delegations to create unique performances"*.

     Moreover, it was also officialized that the hosts for this edition would be DJs and AstroVision Song Contest #11 and #15 respectively Matoma & Martin Danielle.

## Contest

As of December, 26th 2023, 34 countries confirmed would participate in the second edition of the AstroVision Retro Song Festival.