W:O:A founders to receive EFA lifetime achievement gong

Thomas Jensen and Holger Hübner will be honoured for 30 years of Wacken at the European Festival Awards 2019

News By IQ | 17 December 2019

Wacken Open Air founders Thomas Jensen (left) and Holger Hübner

Holger Hübner and Thomas Jensen, co-founders of German metal festival Wacken Open Air, will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 11th European Festival Awards (EFAs) on 15 January 2020.

The other nominees for the awards, which take place during Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen, Netherlands, were revealed last week, with over 350,000 votes cast across the 14 other categories.

Jensen, the bassist in a band called Skyline, and Hübner, who was working as a DJ, co-founded Wacken Open Air in 1990.

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