HAIZETARA 2025, STREET BANDS, FANFARRE AND STREET MUSIC INTERNATIONAL CONTEST (18th edition)
Haizetara Festival´s Aim
Haizetara Street Bands, fanfarre and Street Music International Contest is being organized by the local goverment of Amorebieta-Etxano.
The main aim is to organize a cultural event that spread around the world and that way the festival will achieve the promotion of this kind of music and music bands and fanfarreas. The town Amorebieta-Etxano will become a music reference where new music tendencies will be shown off.
When and where it will be held
Haizetara 2025 will be held on 20th, 21st and 22nd of June 2025 within the municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano.
Bands, Registration and selection
The competition is open to any band that performs street musical gigs or shows which has previously been selected by the organization.
The deadline for registering is 16th February 2025, by filling in the form found in the website www.haizetara.eus.
The selection of the participating bands will be carried out by the professionals at Amorebieta-Etxano local goverment. The decision will be taken based on the CVs as well as the audio-visual materials (video, DVD, CD…) that all the registered bands will have to send to the address shown in the previous section. The following judging criteria will be taken into account:
– Artistic quality of the proposals
– Diversity of the musical styles.
– Diversity of the origin of the bands.
Disclosure
The list of the selected bands will be released in April 2025.
All the registered bands, selected or not, will be informed about the bands that have been chosen.
Commitments of the participants
The selected groups should perform at least four times during the length of the contest, which is three days; once on Friday, twice on Saturday and once on Sunday morning. Places and times will be previously notified by the organisers.
The festival will start on Friday, 20th june, at 19.00 hours with a presentation act where all the bands that have been chosen will have to take part. The awards will be held on Sunday 22nd at 13.00. The participating groups have to be necessarily there in this two acts.
Materials
All the necessary technical and musical materials to actually play their performances will be on the charge of the participants.
Commitments of the organisers
The organisers will provide accommodation (days 19, 20, 21 or 20, 21, 22), lunch (day 21) and dinner (days 20 and 21) for the participanting bands.
Expenses will be covered for all the musicians plus 1 companion in each band.
The participating bands will receive €5,000 for taking part in the competition (all taxes included). In the case of tax-exempt organisations they should provide the supporting documents. Participating bands with less than 6 musicians or those coming from a town within the area of 300 kilometres from Amorebieta will receive €2,500 (all taxes included). In the case of tax-exempt organisations they should provide the supporting documents.
The organisers of the competition could agree with some of the selected bands a different amount of money to the stated above according to exceptional circumstances.
Awards
The following prizes will be given:
Best Band of the competition: €15,000. This prize will be decided by a jury, chosen for this purpose, by the President of Ametx erakunde autonomoa. The jury will be selected among prestigious professionals in the world of music and the performing arts.
People’s Choice Award: €4,000. It will be decided as the competition takes place through people’s votes.
In case of coincidence between the Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award, the People’s Choice Award would be given to the second most voted band.
Outstanding Performer Award: €1,000. This award for the most outstanding instrumentalist will be decided by the jury.
Jury
The jury will be formed by prestigious music and performing art professionals and the President of Ametx Erankunde Autonomoa will be the one who will chose it.
The jury´s decision is final.
2025 special edition AMOREBIETA SPORTS SOCIETY (SDA).
During the year 2025, the 100 years of this association will be celebrated and for this reason, we want to give them recognition also within the Haizetara festival.
Therefore, the bands participating in the contest are invited to make their own version of the SDA anthem, thus giving it visibility during the festival.
The SDA proposes to the participating bands a game in the form of a special contest with a prize of €1,000 to the group that performs the best version of the anthem of the Amorebieta Sports Society, a beloved song rooted in the collective imagination of the town of Amorebieta-Etxano , who will undoubtedly enjoy listening to this old melody on new instruments, in new voices and with new rhythms from other peoples and other nations.
Bands that want to participate in this parallel contest must indicate so on the registration form.
