The Song Festival will be held next week on December 19, 20 and 22, as every year at the Palace of Congresses. For a few days now, the participating songs have been released on YouTube, a novelty this year, aimed at getting the public acquainted with the songs before the singers perform on the big stage.
As is often the case with major events, this festival has not escaped accusations and controversies that were mainly related to the way the songs were selected. Invited to the "Java" show on Albanian Radio and Television, Maestro Zhani Ciko, who is part of the jury, has publicly responded to the controversy.
â??The jury's verdicts are uncontested, this is the number one pact. You Go presents your creation to a jury that has been designated by someone else. That jury will make its decision, as she judges. As I came to the first festival in the 90s, I initiated the post-festival. It was a democracy, for people to say their thoughts on songs.
This festival has started not with post-festival but with anti-festival. To say that the festival has to be canceled, for not having won one song [or another], is absurd. What was my interest in not singing a college song? There were many other colleagues of mine, for whom I was very bad, but did not get in, â?said Zhani Ciko.
