AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2008

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2008
Dates
Final	16th of May 2008
Host
Venue	Summer Artistic Auditorium (Mikhali Arena), Pyalivostokgrad, PY
Presenter(s)	Andi Robi Idris Novogrody, Andi Ainii Irqimaza Novogrody
Musical director	Tinashdarika Aliyeva
Directed by	Nevena Dalieva
Executive supervisor	Ishaq Nurqifli
Executive producer	Damian Novorivich
Host broadcaster	PyaliRadio (PR)
Participants
Number of entries	20
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends five-member juries where each votes 1,3,5,7, and 10 for the best 5 songs, added with online vote using Propotional Vote.

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2008 is the fifty-first edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2008 by the authorities of PyaliRadio (PR). This is the eleventh time that Pyalivostok hosted the competition, and the sixth time that the festival was held in the region's capital, Pyalivostokgrad. The 2008 Festival marked Pyalivostokgrad as tied second most hosting together with Basna with six hostings in their city, only behind Metropolitan Zafizamarrah who has hosted thirteen times.

Pyalivostok was granted the hosting rights immediately after the 2007 festival was won by Pyalivostokian male soloist Andi Robi Idris Novogrody who sung "Любить тебя и меня". After the victory was announced, the regional government and PyaliRadio opened submissions for cities who were interested on hosting the festival. The same bidding process like the one used to select the previous year's host was once again utilized. This year also includes 225 people including 150 members of the ARFOS Preparation Committee and 75 members of the public. However the voting process to pick the venue for this year remained secret until three venues remained due to the concerns that the long process of voting could cause disadvantages between bids, and due to the low-quality bids presented to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs' Hosting Committee last year, and as such, three venues remained in the bidding process, while the other venues' names remains a secret and is never announced to this day. All three has previously hosted ARFOS before.

City	Venue	Capacity	Votes
Pyalivostokgrad	Summer Artistic Auditorium (Mikhali Arena)	45,000	118
Pyalivostokgrad	Krakovisech Theatre and Performing Arts Centre	12,000	55
Saint Auron	Sankt-Auvonskovsky Ice Rink	18,000	52

The selection of the Summer Artistic Auditorium was announced on 25th of January 2007 together with the announcement that Sankt-Auvonskovsky Ice Rink will host both the cultural week and the AleziRadio Choral Competition, while Krakovisech will host the press conferences. Normally, the second place will host the Independence Award and press conferences, and the third place will host the cultural week and the Choral Competition. However, due to circumstances regarding the venues, the positions are swapped.

The Summer Artistic Arena (Russian: Летняя художественная аудитория, Letnyaya khudozhestvennaya auditoriya) has hosted the AleziRadio Festival before in 2006 with a capacity of 35,000 and has an orchestra pit installed. The same facilities are used for the event once again, but 10,000 additional seats were installed in anticipation of the AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The Arena had been previously used to host the Summer Artistic Festival which were held annually in Pyalivostokgrad since 1989 where the festival hosted summer-themed spectacle of dance and music. Observed from space, the arena would be shaped like a sun with the main auditorium in the center. Before the festival, some upgrades and redesigns were made to the venue, with the most important being the upgrading of the sound system from ARICO Mus.sys 2930-S made in 1995 to a much more modern ARICO Mus.sys 3128 made in 2006, added with borrowed ARICO Mus.sys-mini 83 used for the 2005 festival previously. The result was a sound system met with positive acclaim with some saying that it is the "best sound system used in the festival in the 2000s". Eventually, sound upgrades were made again as technological advances from ARICO arrives with ARICO Mus.sys 4109-PL, which is an upgrade from the previous systems used from 2006-2007.

This year, another foreign country competed over the other. In place of StrayaRoos, the nation of Calradia competed in the AleziRadio Festival of Songs for the first time.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Ali Hisauradin
Zafizamarrah	Andi Harunaddin Dami
Pyalivostok	Lisa Navianova
Tel Hadiv	Dorothy Weiss
Mosin-Nagan	Ami Navidayan
Bristol	Ann-Roberts Hailings
Aramna	Helga Robbine
Pantabang Islands	Cherea Alisaunitaian
Daya Island	Amilea Samidana
Calradia

Commentators and Spokepersons

The name written in bold is the jury spokeperson for that region or territory, or in case of Calradia, nation.

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	ABA	English: Azza Ruzindari (AR-P1), Anria Marindaruddin (ABA Channel One) Arabic : Farah Al Fattaharin (AR-P2), Nur Hasan Yusril (ABA Channel One, broadcasted a day after the live competition)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Mafzali Amiruddin (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Zahranita Narinda (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Ya'en Rama'i Dadon (RZ/P A) French : Samuel Na'ikane'i Salem (RZ/P Francais) Dutch : Emilio Saalvendijk (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sheila Rayeshmaim (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Lisa Albertsen (RRB) French : Enis Tauberin (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Ani Yozyk (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Hanzari bin Soeradi (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Ami Riki (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Denaya Maaristo (RP / DS) Swedish : Lovera (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Anne Lozeinnavais (ARR)
Calradia	-
South Alezia	Televisie Alezie-Suid	no commentary and no jury

Participating Entries and Results

According to the rules of the AleziRadio Festival of Songs, any international participant participating in the festival would be automatically have its' two entries run at number ten and twenty in the running order, and as such Calradia was immediately put accordingly. Due to its' non-Alezian status, Calradia couldn't participate in the Independence Award. Carrelie in 1989, Waisnor in 2006, and StrayaRoos in 2007 earned this clause as well.

• "*" = the singer won the Independence Award which was held the day before the competition.
• The song for the Independence Award for the year was Don't you "That Wooden Border" by Molly Katten from 1945

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Pyalivostok
02	Zafizamarrah
03	Zafizamarrah
04	Tel Hadiv
05	Aramna
06	Pantabang Islands
07	Bristol
08	Tel Hadiv
09	Pantabang Islands
10	Calradia
11	Daya Island
12	Mosin-Nagan
13	Pyalivostok
14	Basna
15	Basna
16	Daya Island
17	Mosin-Nagan
18	Aramna
19	Bristol
20	Calradia