Het Grote Songfestivalfeest

Het Grote Songfestivalfeest (The Big Eurovision Party) is a Dutch television concert programme starring artists of the Eurovision Song Contest, produced by PilotStudio, and held at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. Originally commissioned for the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam prior to its cancellation, three editions of the show have been held, with a fourth set to be held in December 2024. Cornald Maas and Edsilia Rombley are the regular presenters of the programme. The show is broadcast in a number of European countries as supplementary Eurovision programming ahead of or during the contest weeks.

Presenters
The first edition of the show in 2019 was originally planned to be hosted by Dutch Eurovision commentators Cornald Maas and Jan Smit, however, the latter had to withdraw due to illness and was later replaced by one of his Eurovision 2020 co-hosts, Edsilia Rombley. Rombley, who represented the Netherlands in the 1998 and 2007 contests, also performed her entries during the concert. Former Dutch spokespersons Emma Wortelboer and Tim Douwsma, as well as Junior Eurovision Song Contest commentator Buddy Vedder, also appeared as presenters during the show to introduce some of the acts. Maas and Rombley returned as hosts for the second and third editions in 2022 and 2023, respectively, and are set to do so again in 2024.

2019 edition
The first edition was held on 15 November 2019, with 31 Eurovision acts from 17 countries participating.


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Withdrawn artists
The original list of the performers also included Willeke Alberti, the Dutch representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, who missed the show due to illness. 's Lordi and 's Dima Bilan, who won the contest in 2006 and 2008 respectively, were expected to perform, but they later withdrew their participation. Helena Paparizou was also invited, but couldn't participate in person due to a scheduling clash with a live broadcast of The Voice of Greece. Instead, she sent a video message in which she sang the refrain of her 2005 winning song "My Number One".

2022 edition
The second edition was held on 17 November 2022, with 31 Eurovision acts from 16 countries participating.


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Withdrawn artists
Prior to its postponement from the original December 2021 date, the initial list of performers for the second edition included Brotherhood of Man, the British winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1976; Bobbysocks!, the Norwegian winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985; Sertab Erener, the Turkish winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003; Eleni Foureira, the Cypriot runner-up of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018; Kristian Kostov, the Bulgarian runner-up of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017; Marija Šerifović, the Serbian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007; and Verka Serduchka, the Ukrainian runner-up of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Sam Ryder, the British runner-up of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, was also due to appear, but later withdrew his participation due to other obligations.

2023 edition
The third edition was held on 16 November 2023, with 27 Eurovision acts from 18 countries participating. Gali Atari, the Israeli winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 as part of Milk and Honey, was due to appear, but later withdrew her participation due to security concerns caused by the Israel–Hamas war.


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2024 edition
The fourth edition is set to be held on 12 December 2024. The following artists have been confirmed to participate:

Broadcasting
The first edition of Het Grote Songfestivalfeest aired in the Netherlands on 1 January 2020 on NPO 3 at 20:25 and on BVN at 21:40 (CET). The concert was later broadcast in Greece on ERT1 in two parts on 29 February and 1 March. The concert also aired in Australia on 10 May at 20:30 (AEST) on SBS Viceland; it was titled The Road to Eurovision 2020: The Winners and was part of an alternate Australian Eurovision broadcasting plan that took place from 10–17 May due to the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

A cut of the second edition was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One as The Big Eurovision Party on 1 January 2023 at 00:45 (01:30 in Scotland), which also acted as a pre-event prior to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. A repeat ran again on 12 May on BBC Three at 20:30, the night before the contest. The British coverage was presented by Rylan Clark, who recorded additional links and short interviews backstage for the BBC broadcast. A different cut of the show was broadcast in the Netherlands on 4 January at 21:15 (CET) on NPO 3. On 6 May, a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the show, featuring Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" (which was not included in the NPO broadcast) was aired in Belgium on VRT 1 with commentary by Peter Van de Veire.

The third edition aired in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2024 at 22:55 on BBC One; in Norway on 22 March 2024 at 22:05 CET on NRK1, in Belgium on VRT 1, which aired the show in two parts on 27 April and 4 May 2024; and in the Netherlands on 8 May at 20:25 CET on NPO 3.