Finland: Tampere will host UMK 2024!

Tampere will be the host city for Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024.  Finnish national final for Eurovision will go bigger.  Next year the city of Tampere will host the show on Saturday 10 February, 2024 at Nokia Arena where we will get to know who will be Käärijä’s successor.   So far Yle has received a total of 419 song submissions for the final but only seven entries will make the cut.

The Contest for New Music UMK has become a real music institution, which absolutely deserves a much bigger venue. Turku has been such an amazing UMK city for so many years – we’re very grateful for that. This year, the UMK train is heading north, and I think that Tampere and Nokia Arena are the perfect venue for a major Eurovision event. Now’s the time for a really big show and a Eurovision atmosphere that will blow the roof off! Villé Villen, Yle creative director

UMK24

UMK 2024 Grand final will take place in Tampere with the tickets going on sale on Thursday 5 October, 2023 at 8 am CET.  The announcement of the seven finalists will start on Wednesday January 10, 2024 and their songs will be released one at a time starting the next day.

According to Yle’s team for UMK this year selection was much harder since “the standards are historically high” making it more difficult to decide which acts will participate:

“It’s amazing to see how Finnish artists and songwriters, from newcomers to national favourites, are all jumping into the UMK fray. This year, we’re seeing what has to be the all-time best group of entries, which will end up being a truly sensational final seven. Among the finalists we have a talented artist’s first 90s-style dance song, a power song by a true vocal talent, perhaps the best song of an indie favourite’s career, two big name performers doing a surprising duo with a serious refrain, a thunderous rock anthem by a world-touring band, a seriously intense song from one of the most listened-to artists in Finland, and a hard-hitting club banger by a well-known artists making a comeback. This year, viewers will be getting an extremely high-energy UMK in an even bigger arena!” Tapio Hakanen, Chair of UMK jury

UMK Schedule

6:00pm UMK kickoff party

Nokia Arena doors and services open

Eurovision Disco (1st and 3rd floor)

YleX Street (5th floor)

8:30pm Audience must be seated in the arena

8:30pm-9:00pm UMK24 Preshow

9:00pm-11:00pm UMK24 Show

11:00pm-3:00am UMK after party

Eurovision Disco (1st and 3rd floor)

YleX Street (5th floor)

Käärijä finished in second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 winning the televote.  This makes him the most successful Finnish representative since Lordi’s victory.

Source: Yle

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