3/14/2005

EMERGENZA NEWS FROM AMERICA

EMERGENZA BAND PLAYS LIVE IN FRONT OF 5 MILLION TV VIEWERS

New York, USA — The New Jersey Band 20 AMPS, who participated the Philly festival, performed live and unplugged in front of 5 millions viewers on Channel 47/Telemundo in New York.

The setting for this incredible event was Monday Morning March 7th 2005 when this fantastic rock band with a Hispanic background, managed to do what no other unsigned band has done before - that is to play for Telemundo, the national (yes, the whole United States) Spanish speaking television on the early morning show. Our 2 brave Emergenza USA Directors, Francesca and Walter, managed to get up at 3 in the morning after a long flight from London, to get smothered with make up for the cameras and talk about the festival in the USA. 20 Amps were the only band from NY who took part last year, “And we are very proud of it! It was really worth driving all the way to Philly to play! Now we are looking forward to do as much promotion as we can to pave the way for Emergenza when it arrives to NY next year” Raymundo, the singer, said.

ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY

USA — Emergenza’s entrance into 12 new cities across North America in 2005 has been nothing if not successful. Emergenza enters March with two full months and close to 200 nights of shows behind us. While March will see the end of the eliminatory round in most of the cities, February boasts some of Emergenza’s most impressive figures. And while it seems that the eliminatory round just started yesterday, we’ve already wrapped up in Cleveland, Memphis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Washington, Tampa, Cincinnati, Montreal and Chicago.

Quarter finals begin immediately in Montreal and in Chicago, while the other cities will have to wait a few weeks for the semis to begin. In the meantime our tour managers are beginning meetings with stores and venues to pave the way for the festival’s entrance into 24 more cities in US and Canada next year!

WRITE YOUR ARTICLE AND FLY TO GERMANY!

CANADA — Emergenza Festival and Voir Communications have chosen the 9 ''journalists'' who will attend the quarterfinal shows in Montreal at the Kola Note. The lucky nine were chosen out of 140 people who took part in the contest to win an all expense paid trip to the Emergenza International Final in Rothenburg in August 2005. One of these individuals will be joining the Emergenza team and be the official Voir correspondent from Taubertal!

The quarterfinal start the 10th of March, so come out and join our reporting enthusiasts. You will be able to see all their articles on the Voir website and each week the best article will be published in Voir's Montreal edition. Online readers will vote for the article they believe to be the most deserving. The entry with the highest number of votes will be proclaimed the winner.

Check the Emergenza website for up to date news, concert schedules and winners: www.emergenza.net/eng/default.asp