AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1976

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1976
Dates
Final	16th of May 1976
Host
Venue	Royal Theatre of Bristol, Victoria, BR
Presenter(s)	Harry Waters
Musical director	Raphael Acton
Directed by	Willing Malta-Harrington
Executive supervisor	Derry Olverdes
Executive producer	Ismelda Ennielson
Host broadcaster	Royal Radio of Bristol
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and a public vote where each votes 1-5 for the best 5 songs

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1976 is the nineteenth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition is held by the Royal Radio of Bristol. This is the second time that Bristol hosted the competition previously hosting it in Aubergine in 1960. This makes Bristol together with Pyalivostok and Zafizamarrah as the only three regions who had hosted the competition more than once.

The competition was finally hosted in the City of Victoria which is the capital of the region of Bristol itself for the first time after previously pulling out of hosting due to the British royals visiting Victoria at the time, forcing the competition to be moved to Aubergine. However, due to there's no visits of the royals, it is now possible to host it in the capital of Victoria.

The competition was held in the Royal Theatre of Bristol, which can seat 1,600 people at maximum, however due to the radio and audio systems installed for the competition, the seats are reduced to 1,100 people. Once again, tickets sold out even with the inflated price. The Bristolian Radio tried asking for AleziRadio to broadcast the show into television once again, however AleziRadio still did not have the funding and technology to broadcast the competition for television viewers live. This created outrage from the Bristolian and Zafizamarranian radio authorities saying that if AleziRadio continued to deny television viewers what they want until 1980, both radios would withdraw from the competition.

A rule change stated that each region should send their own conductors for the competition in order to maximize each entry's flavour for the competition, and every time a song would start, the presenter would have to introduce the conductor together with the song, the artist, and the composer.

This edition was met with the return of Khaled Sha'el who represented Tel Hadiv last year, Nawaiz Darudnir who represented Basna back in 1965, and Erin Daqa who represented Basna back in 1964.

Overall, the competition was deemed successful, albeit with the aforementioned television problem.

Conductors

The list of conductors for this edition can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Bristol	Jean-Emile Lauverie
Zafizamarrah	Ahmad Suharaimmi
Daya Island	Laovi Namarinen
Tel Hadiv	Shakesh Amevian
Basna	Loetfi Hashim
Pyalivostok	Glenn Hashenkov
Aramna	Bennais Roustelavais
Mosin-Nagan	DeLano Marshvelino
Pantabang Islands	Benni Ha'open Salem

Participating Entries and Results

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Bristol	Halton Nelsons	Bring Me Love	-none-	English		9
02	Zafizamarrah	Isma'il Hafi	حامض	Sour	Arabic		62
03	Daya Island	KAKOVINEN GROUP	Saa minut uskomaan	Make Me Believe	Finnish		0
04	Tel Hadiv	Khaled Sha'el	האהבה שלנו	Our Love	Hebrew	1	80
05	Basna	Nawaiz Darudnir	Salahkan Aku	Blame Me	Indonesian		21
06	Pyalivostok	Elisnoya Ravenova	летать как бабочка	Fly Like A Butterfly	Russian		40
07	Aramna	Bella Delavais	Ennai Caminnais	On My Way	Aramnan		31
08	Daya Island	Hershel Aalavinen	Onnelliseen Elämään	For A Happy Life	Finnish		30
09	Basna	Erin Daqa	Bahagia	Happy	Indonesian		6
10	Aramna	Seleila Haroldinnais	Siguais Vivaraidais	Keep Living On	Aramnan		4
11	Mosin-Nagan	Lionel Dabarshviyan	ნამდვილი სიყვარული	The Real Love	Georgian		8
12	Bristol	Harry Ben-Sawyer	Lady	-none-	English		31
13	Pantabang Islands	Martin So'u'i Dadon	I'u'ka'a Ala'a'i	To My Dearest	Alezian		15
14	Pantabang Islands	Sa'oya Wa'utana Salem	Pa'o'ula'e'i	Darkness	Alezian		21
15	Pyalivostok	Leylana and Maria Noylanova	Никто больше не живет	No One Lives Anymore	Russian		9
16	Zafizamarrah	Salmayya Imsahayya	لا ينتهي	Never Ending	Arabic		18
17	Tel Hadiv	Yakolsna'el and Daysha'el A'eshma	בשבילה ובשבילו	For Her and For Him	Hebrew		0
18	Mosin-Nagan	Ismelda Dakolyenova	ხანდახან იმედი მაქვს	Sometimes I Hope	Georgian		20