Liet-Lávlut

Liet-Lávlut or Liet Ynternasjonaal is an annual festival for musicians who speak any of Europe's minority languages that was held the first time in Friesland in 2002. The goal of the festival is to boost interest in Europe's minority languages, especially with young people.

Liet-Lávlut 2006

Since the Sámi had won two out of the three competitions, the festival was held in Östersund, Sweden, which is the southern reaches of the area, Sápmi, that the Sámi live in the Nordic Countries. Sixty competitors, singing in 25 minority languages, took part in the preliminary elimination round. Eleven songs, representing 11 languages, were selected for the final competition.

Although the winner was selected by the festival's jury, the audience could vote for their favorite artist at the festival, on the Internet and by SMS message. The Sámi duo of Johan Kitti from Sweden and Ellen Sara Bæhr from Norway won the competition with "Luđiin muitalan", sung in Northern Sámi. The audience favorite was Liza Pannetier, with her song in Occitan, "Soleu Rouge".

Entries in the order they were performed

Flag	Artist	Entry	Language	Placing
	Arbe Garbe	Oh moj sin	Friulian
	Anna Murray and Ian Findlay Macleod	An-raoir bha mi coiseachd	Scottish Gaelic
	Moot	Gyn Fockleyn	Manx
	Raud-Ants	Kui miä kazvolin kanainõ	Votic
	Gari	Hil ez denak	Basque
	Liza Pannetier	Soleu Roge	Occitan	audience favorite
	Van Wieren	Nim dyn tiid	West Frisian
	Jord	Oonhän meilä vielä kieli	Meänkieli	5
	Narf	Santiago	Galician
	Johan Kitti and Ellen Sara Bæhr	Luđiin muitalan	Northern Sámi	1
	Karavan Familia	Shej baxtali	Romani	2
entry lyrics

Liet-Lávlut 2008

The competition took place on 18 October in Luleå, Sweden. Corsican singer Jacques Culioli won both the jury's and public's awards.

Liet International 2009 and 2010

In January the Board of the Liet Foundation decided to continue under the name Liet International. The 2009 competition was held on 31 October 2009 in the De Harmonie theater in Leeuwarden, the capital city of the Dutch province of Friesland.

The Finnish Sámi rock band Somby won the competition. The audience favorite was Dr. Drer en Cre Posse from Sardinia, with their song in "Apu Biu".^[1]

In 2010 Liet International was held in the Breton city of Lorient/An Oriant in France. This edition of Liet International was won by the band Orka of the Faroër Islands. The public award went to the Friulian band R.esistence in Dub.

In 2011 Liet International was held in Udin(e), the capital of the Italian region Friûl.

Liet International 2011

The Frisian singer Janna Eijer (22) from Jobbegea won the eight edition of Liet International.

Contestants

• Skama la Rede – Asturias, winner of the Premiu al meyor cantar
• Noid – Vepsian band from Karelia, Russia
• Rolffa – Sámi band from Norway, winner of the Sámi Grand Prix
• Manam – Gaelic band from Scotland
• Silent Woo Goore – Udmurt Republic, Russia
• Siroka – Rockband from the Basque country
• Aoife Scott – Eire
• Janna Eijer – Fryslân, winner of songcontest Liet 2011
• Priska – Friûlian band, invited with a wildcard
• Coffeeshock Company – Croat singing band from Austria and winner of songcontest Suns
• Cuntra Löm – Ladinian band from Italy, winner of the public award of Suns
• Rezia Ladina – Rumantsch singer from Switzerland, winner of the first Rumantsch songcontest

Liet International 2012

The Breton (originally born in Wales) singer Lleuwen won the ninth edition of Liet International, held in Gijón, Asturias.

Contestants

• Asturiana Mining Company - Asturias, winner of Premiu al Meyor Cantar 2012
• Brian Ó hEadra - Scotland
• Claudia Crabuzza and Claudio Gabriel Sanna - Sardegna
• Dopu Cena - Corsica
• Enkore - Basque Country
• IB&4CP (Ivan Belosludtsev & 4 Cheber Pios) - Udmurtia
• Inger Karoline Gaup - Lapland, winner of the Sámi Grand Prix
• Jonokognos - Friulian band
• Lleuwen - Brittany
• The Voodoolectric - Low Saxony, winner of Plattsounds 2012
• Yldau - Fryslân, winner of songcontest Liet 2012

References

External links

• Official Site