(AGENPARL) – sab 21 gennaio 2023 Press release
Groningen (NL), January 21, 2023
Dua Lipa receives Excellence Award at ESNS23
ESNS presented pop sensation Dua Lipa with The ESNS Excellence Award during the keynote with Dugi & Dua Lipa. The award celebrates her success as an ESNS Exchange Artist. Visiting Groningen for a third time, the keynote interview with the Lipas explored Dua’s career since her first performance at ESNS and their work on the Sunny Hill Foundation and Festival.
The Excellence Award recognizes Dua Lipa for being the most successful act to benefit from the ESNS Exchange scheme (which was previously named European Talent Exchange Programme). The ESNS Excellence Award celebrates acts that positively represent European culture through their music (worldwide). Acts that function as strong ambassadors for European music and as role models for European acts dreaming to make it big.
The keynote interview, hosted by Gordon Masson from IQ magazine, was attended by hundreds of international representatives of the music industry. Dua & Dugi Lipa discussed the release of the Future Nostalgia album during the pandemic, her massively successful world tour and the success of Sunny Hill Festival in Prishtina which was shortlisted for the European Festival Awards and which they hope will not only help put Kosovo on the cultural map, but also raise funds to develop the country’s arts and cultural sector.
Dukagjin Lipa is CEO of London-based Mercy & Wild PR and Communications Agency, as well as executive director of Republika Communications, a creative communications agency in his native Kosovo. Dugi is also the founder of the Sunny Hill Festival and the co-founder of Sunny Hill Foundation with his daughter and foundations patron Dua Lipa.
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About ESNS
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the key exchange for emerging European music talent, with a proven track record of helping to break new acts on the international music scene, with now well-known names such as Altin Gün, Arlo Parks, Alyona Alyona, Daði Freyr, Dua Lipa, Fontaines D.C., Hinds, Go_A, girl in red, Meduza, MeskeremMees, MYD, Priya Ragu, Pip Blom, Pongo, Sigrid and Wet Leg.
Each January, ESNS showcases 350 emerging European artists to over 40,000 visitors. The festival and conference attract over 4,000 music industry professionals, including 400 international festivals. By day, the front-running conference hosts over 150 panel discussions, interviews, keynotes and more that take on urgent subjects and the need for social change in the music industry. By night, European acts perform across 40 locations in the heart of Groningen from Wednesday to Friday, and Saturday presents upcoming Dutch artists in concert venue De Oosterpoort.
Photos ESNS 2022 – [royalty-free download](https://esns.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52bf8d372ff73dc6e083f4a9f&id=f79ac59766&e=062752c7c7)
* photographer credit is found in the file name
1st photo by: Niels Meijer
2nd photo by: Bart Heemskerk
ESNS23 Artist Photos – [download](https://esns.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52bf8d372ff73dc6e083f4a9f&id=c6f329c2a8&e=062752c7c7)