A very warm welcome everybody to the wonderful city of Dunedin, New Zealand. We are live from the Forsyth Barr Stadium, where 6 acts will compete to represent New Zealand in Palermo. Your hosts tonight are: Keith Urban, Kimra & Sonny Bill Williams!
The current HoD as well as the New Zealand broadcaster have shortlisted six great songs they think can win the upcoming FdlC 12 in Italy. You will be able to listen to the six acts competing to win ‘The Sound Of Music’ below. Enjoy!
1. City of Souls – “Sleep”:
2. Brooke Fraser – “Kings & Queens”:
3. Ezra Vine – “Celeste”:
4. Gin Wigmore – “New Rush”:
5. Broods – “Mother & Father”:
6. Maya Payne – “Falling”:
I hope you guys enjoyed our National Final here in New Zealand and thank you very much for taking the time to listen to our songs! We have a special performance tonight from the wonderful Kiwi singer and violinist – Lindsey Stirling with a special “Lord of the Rings Medley” for you all.
The voting system is as follows, you will rank the six songs by giving them: 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and finally 12 points for your favourite act of the evening. You can send your votes to the following email address: ovidarch@yahoo.com
The deadline to vote in “The Sound Of Music” is Sunday 27th March at 10:00 CET!
The official voting results will be revealed shortly afterward the deadline on this page, and a new winner will be crowned in the arena.
Thank you again to everyone for voting in our National Final, make sure that your fellow HoD do as well! 🙂
Celeste please. I desperately need a fav of mine to win in at least one NF 😛
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I believe that I might start the voting procedure now, even though there might not be as many people watching. 😉
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Shall we wait a couple of mins just in case? 🙂
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Cool. In the meantime I’ll discuss and analyse the results with my new mate, Gandalf in The Green Dragon Inn. 😛
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Not gonna happen mate 😦
Falling will win!
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It’s my third fav! (again) 😛
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prediction
1.Falling
2.New Rush
3.Mother & Father
Go Kiwis!
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New Rush is my least favourite ;(
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😮
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Ok guys, here we go. These are the results from the New Zealand National Final. Hold on tight! 🙂
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In sixth place in our NF is….
Song 4: Gin Wigmore – “New Rush” with 84 points!
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lol
It was my 3rd though
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In fifth place in our NF is….
Song 1: City of Souls – “Sleep” with 94 points!
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my 4th 🙂
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😦 it was my second choice…
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That was my last.
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I guess song #2 is the fourth ranked…
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In fourth place in our Kiwi final is….
Song 2: Brooke Fraser with the song “Kings & Queens”. This scored a total of 96 points, receiving one set of 12 points!
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It was my dead last sorry 😛
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What?The one set of 12 pts was from me. 😦 😮
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Celeste next 😛
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Grrrrrr 😛
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We move on to the top 3 of the international jury. The third place in “The Sound of Music 2016″ goes to………..
Song 6: Maya Payne with the song “Falling”. This song scored a total of 113 points, receiving 12 points from two different countries!
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My 3rd 🙂
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😮
I was one of the top contributors I guess 🙂
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Finally, the top two of the international jury has been revealed. In second place and runner-up in our contest is………………..
Song 5: Broods with the song “Mother & Father”. It received a total of 114 points (one ahead of Maya!), receiving 12 points from four different countries!
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So my top 3 is identical with the overall top 3 :O
That was rather unexpected.
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I guess Oxi was right !
Happy for Oxi and Good luck Kiwis!!!
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This means that the winner of “The Sound of Music 2016” is Ezra Vine with the song “Celeste” with a total of 123 points, receiving 12 points from five countries. Congratulations Ezra, you’re off to Palermo in Italy for the 12 edition of Fete de la Chanson!
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At last 😛
Good luck the Kiwis! 🙂
Thank you, Ovidarch!
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Good luck to Ezra Vine and New Zealand, and to Ovidarch 🙂
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Thank you guys, we’re hoping to end up somewhere in the top 10 hopefully. Thanks again for voting as well, you guys ultimately decided our winner for the contest. 🙂 Good luck you all!
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It seems like betting odds are in favour 😛
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I was not around. The eventual winner was 4th.
My votes:
5ts: Gin Wigmore – “New Rush”:
6pts: Brooke Fraser – “Kings & Queens”
7pts: Ezra Vine – “Celeste”
8pts: Maya Payne – “Falling”
10pts: City of Souls – “Sleep”
12pts: Broods – “Mother & Father”
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The full results from the international juries will be revealed in a minute. In the meantime, here’s the winner of “The Sound of Music 2016” everyone, give it up for Ezra Vine!
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Wow, the results were almost the same as my ranking!! The only difference is that I had Broods first and Ezra 2nd. It was a close call between them for me though, so still a great winner. 🙂
Good luck New Zealand!
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Thanks Razvan, looking forward to Palermo already! 😀 Here are the full results of the international jury vote:
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