Eurovision Song Contest becomes Back to Live pilot

In partnership with Fieldlab Evenementen, Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam will take place with up to 3,500 audience members in attendance

News By | 6 April 2021

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This year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands will take place as a government-backed pilot event with a small in-person audience, a Dutch minister has announced.

Arie Slob, a minister for media under culture secretary Ingrid van Engelshoven, tells De Telegraaf that it will be possible to admit thousands of fans to Eurovision, which returns this spring after cancelling in 2020, by bringing the contest under Fieldlab Evenementen’s Back to Live, a series of pilot concerts, festivals and…

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