Liet-Lávlut

Liet-Lávlut or Liet Ynternasjonaal is an annual festival for musicians who speak any of Europe's minority languages that was held the first time in Friesland in 2002. The goal of the festival is to boost interest in Europe's minority languages, especially with young people.

Liet-Lávlut 2006

Since the Sámi had won two out of the three competitions, the festival was held in Östersund, Sweden, which is the southern reaches of the area, Sápmi, that the Sámi live in the Nordic Countries. Sixty competitors, singing in 25 minority languages, took part in the preliminary elimination round. Eleven songs, representing 11 languages, were selected for the final competition.

Although the winner was selected by the festival's jury, the audience could vote for their favorite artist at the festival, on the Internet and by SMS message. The Sámi duo of Johan Kitti from Sweden and Ellen Sara Bæhr from Norway won the competition with "Luđiin muitalan", sung in Northern Sámi. The audience favorite was Liza Pannetier, with her song in Occitan, "Soleu Rouge".

Entries in the order they were performed

Flag Artist Entry Language Placing
Arbe Garbe Oh moj sin Friulian
Anna Murray and Ian Findlay Macleod An-raoir bha mi coiseachd Scottish Gaelic
Moot Gyn Fockleyn Manx
Raud-Ants Kui miä kazvolin kanainõ Votic
Gari Hil ez denak Basque
Liza Pannetier Soleu Roge Occitan audience favorite
Van Wieren Nim dyn tiid West Frisian
Jord Oonhän meilä vielä kieli Meänkieli 5
Narf Santiago Galician
Johan Kitti and Ellen Sara Bæhr Luđiin muitalan Northern Sámi 1
Karavan Familia Shej baxtali Romani 2
entry lyrics

Liet-Lávlut 2008

The competition took place on 18 October in Luleå, Sweden. Corsican singer Jacques Culioli won both the jury's and public's awards.

Liet International 2009 and 2010

In January the Board of the Liet Foundation decided to continue under the name Liet International. The 2009 competition was held on 31 October 2009 in the De Harmonie theater in Leeuwarden, the capital city of the Dutch province of Friesland.

The Finnish Sámi rock band Somby won the competition. The audience favorite was Dr. Drer en Cre Posse from Sardinia, with their song in "Apu Biu".[1]

In 2010 Liet International was held in the Breton city of Lorient/An Oriant in France. This edition of Liet International was won by the band Orka of the Faroër Islands. The public award went to the Friulian band R.esistence in Dub.

In 2011 Liet International was held in Udin(e), the capital of the Italian region Friûl.

Liet International 2011

The Frisian singer Janna Eijer (22) from Jobbegea won the eight edition of Liet International.

Contestants

Liet International 2012

The Breton (originally born in Wales) singer Lleuwen won the ninth edition of Liet International, held in Gijón, Asturias.

Contestants


References

  1. ↑ "Lapin Kansa" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2009-11-07.

External links

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