{"id":71612,"date":"2025-04-14T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lahoradelblues.com\/?p=71612"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:06:38","slug":"european-blues-challenge-2025-in-split-croatia-3-to-5-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lahoradelblues.com\/en\/european-blues-challenge-2025-in-split-croatia-3-to-5-april\/","title":{"rendered":"European Blues Challenge 2025 in Split (Croatia). 3 to 5 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just coming back after enjoying the fantastic European Blues Challenge<\/strong> in the beautiful city of Split, Croatia. Big thanks to the local organizer, Croatian Blues Forces<\/strong>, and especially Davor Buncic and Sinisa Bizovic plus their whole staff for their amazing work and remarkable organization of the event.<\/p>\n

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\nOnce again, we had a great opportunity to meet with many friends from all over Europe to enjoy togetherness and, of course, awesome blues music. We experienced two superb semi-finals with 11 high quality acts each night, and the sold-out grand finale with the four first classified acts of each semi-final. We want to acknowledge all musicians for their professional commitment and excellence and congratulate the winners likewise all participating bands witnessing that the Blues is alive and well in Europe!<\/p>\n

With the Blues Behind the Scenes Awards<\/strong> we recognized selected European individuals and organizations having worked actively and made significant contributions to advance the Blues in Europe. The EBU awarded Rune Endal (Norway)<\/strong>, editor in-chief of Blues News Magazine in the Media category, Detlev Hoegen (Germany), <\/strong>owner of Crosscut Records, in the Production category (unable to attend as he was traveling in USA during the event), and Kjell Inge Brovoll (Norway), <\/strong>the \u201calma mater\u201d of Blues in Hell Festival, <\/strong>in the Promotion category.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Blues Market<\/strong> was, once again, the real opportunity to meet and see what\u2019s cooking in the European blues scene, establish new contacts and strengthen earlier and new relationships.<\/p>\n

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The EBU<\/strong> General Assembly<\/strong> presented EBU activities and new projects, followed by active discussion with many members expressing their viewpoints and contributing interesting and positive ideas.
\nThe digital European Blues Expo<\/strong> photo exhibition with amazing photos from all previous EBCs to reminisce past 12 years of the Challenges was on display at a dedicated venue during the entire EBC weekend.<\/p>\n

The six-member professional Jury, representing six different European countries, evaluated the performances of all 22 participating bands and solo\/duo acts during the three nights, based on a dedicated scoring and ranking system and reaching the following outcome:<\/p>\n

Congratulations go to the EBC 2025 Winners:<\/p>\n

ALICE ARMSTRONG BAND (United Kingdom)!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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and to WILD FLAME <\/strong>(Poland), second place, and SEE SEE RIDERS<\/strong> (Germany), third place.<\/p>\n

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The EBC also recognized the best solo\/duo act, JANTSO JOKELIN <\/strong>from Finland with an Honorary Award.<\/p>\n

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The winners are awarded to perform at the following festivals:<\/p>\n

EBC AWARDING FESTIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prize awards for the winners include performing at the following confirmed festivals:<\/strong><\/p>\n