May 17th, 2009 | 
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Norway wins the European Song Contest
Norway’s Alexander Rybak won yesterday’s European Song Contest with the ballad Fairytale. The song got the most votes in the history of the show. You can see the song performed here.
It is however not a new age song, but the reason I am writing this is because the last time Norway won, in 1995, the winner was Secret Garden with Nocturne – which is very new age indeed. This was the beginning of Secret Garden’s career, which has given us some incredible songs (like You Raise Me Up).
So yes, a new age song can win the European Song Contest, at least back in 1995.
See the performance here:
Yea! I also noticed at the time that ‘Nocturne’ was a superb new age track. Funnily enough, that year several of the entries were of a ‘new age’ variety. First and last time that happened!