Germany’s LEA recognises the best of 2019

Tuesday's ‘little LEA’, the first since 2019, honoured the biggest and best events of that year and “lit a fuse” for the post-coronavirus era

News By | 17 June 2021

Lifetime achievement award winner Ossy Hoppe with Jens Michow and son Oliver © LEA/Ben Kapalski

Almost 15 months after after the cancellation of its original 2020 event, the PRG Live Entertainment Award (LEA) returned in a smaller, socially distanced format on Tuesday night (15 June) to belatedly recognise excellence in the German live entertainment sector in the pre-coronavirus era.

Taking place at the 1,200-capacity Gibson Club in Frankfurt instead of the usual Festhalle (13,500-cap.), the delayed 15th LEA saw the industry celebrate a “small, hybrid LEA”, said Jens Michow, executive president of industry association BDKV and head of…

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