The national broadcasting declared a competition called Estonian Song 2009
Ten songs will participate in the national pre-selective competition. There will be an open competition and no invitations will be given to this year's composers.
The competitive song, data included, must arrive to the Estonian Song organizing committee no later than 8th of December. To participate in the competition, one must save the song to a quality sound-carrying device. One must add the lyrics, the names of the composers and performers and a signed affirmation to the device, that neither the lyrics nor music has not been made public before this year's 1st of October.
This time the decision to find ten competing songs will not be made anonymously; the names of both the composers and performers must be handed in in the same envelope as the sound-carrying device.
The judges will decide about the songs by 11th of December. The songs that will participate in the national finals will be declared on the same evening in a national TV channel ETV.
Heidy Purga, the producer of the Estonian Song, explained the change of the name with choosing a new way.
“We are expecting and hoping songs from the musicians that would suit for them and for the people living in Estonia,” Purga said. “Musicians can not lose their identity because of an international competition and hence turn into some 'europroducts'.”
Next year's February will become a Month of the Song in Estonian Television, when viewers will be introduced to every song, composer and performer.
“This is the biggest show for the promotion of local pop music,” Mart Normet, entertainment shows' affairs' director in ETV, said. “Hopefully now and in the future we can offer the best song in ten years for Estonian nation.”
The first how that introduces the songs will be broadcast live in the beginning of February. Before the finals, there will be shows that introduce the songs and composers. The shows will last for a month. Estonian Song 2009, Eurovision Song Contest's Estonian final, will be shown on 7th of March 2009, where will become clear which song will go and represent Estonia in Moscow, ESC's 54th contest.
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