Three Andorran Artists Advance to 26th Sona9 Contest Preliminaries
Eugenia Correia, Júlia Sart, and Marta Argemí were selected from 176 submissions for 20-minute sets on 11 June at Auditori Nacional d’Ordino, amid record-high participation.
Key Points
- Three Andorran artists—Eugenia Correia, Júlia Sart, Marta Argemí—advance to 26th Sona9 preliminaries from 176 submissions.
- Record-high participation: third-highest ever, top in 14 years; 30 acts selected.
- Perform 20-min sets on 11 June at Auditori Nacional d’Ordino.
- Contest organized by Grup Enderrock and 3Cat across Catalan-speaking areas.
Three Andorran artists—Eugenia Correia, Júlia Sart, and Marta’s—have advanced to the preliminary stage of the 26th Sona9 contest, a showcase for emerging Catalan-language music.
The artists were chosen among 30 acts from 176 submissions, marking the third-highest participation in the competition's history and the highest in the past 14 years. Organised by Grup Enderrock and 3Cat, with support from the Andorran government, Generalitat de Catalunya, and sponsorship from Estrella Damm, the contest features 10 preliminary concerts in June across Catalan-speaking areas.
Correia, from Sant Julià de Lòria, will present a pop-fusion project; Júlia Sart, from Ordino, offers authorial pop; and Marta’s—full name Marta Argemí—from Escaldes-Engordany, performs indie-pop. All three are scheduled to play a 20-minute set on 11 June at the Auditori Nacional d’Ordino.
Other preliminary venues include Barcelona (1, 8, 10, and 17 June at Antiga Fàbrica Damm), València (4 June at Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània), Tarragona (6 June at Capsa de Música), Salt (12 June at Sala La Mirona), Lleida (18 June at Espai Orfeó), and Palma (23 June at Terra Mar i Terra).
A jury comprising representatives from Enderrock, TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, Cases de la Música, Centre Cultural Albareda, Mercat de Música Viva de Vic, and producer Aleix Iglesias selected the acts. The submissions showed balanced gender representation (48% women and mixed groups, 52% men), with half from Barcelona provinces and the rest from Girona (15%), Lleida (6%), Tarragona (6%), Balearic Islands (11%), València (5%), and Andorra (3%). Dominant genres were authorial song and pop (43%), pop-rock (28%), and rock variants (17%), followed by urban (11%) and folk (1%), with an average of three members per group.
From the preliminaries, 12 semifinalists will advance to perform on 8, 14, and 16 July at Sala La Nau in Barcelona's Poble Nou district. The final is set for 23 September during Barcelona's Festes de la Mercè.
Original Sources
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