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The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May 1995 at the
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. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RTÉ) and presented by Irish journalist and television presenter Mary Kennedy, the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the with the song " Rock 'n' Roll Kids" by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. It was the third consecutive contest to be held in Ireland, and the second consecutive edition to be held in the Point Theatre in Dublin. Twenty-three countries participated in the contest; , , , the , , and were
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as the lowest-scoring countries in the previous edition, and were replaced by , , , and , returning after being relegated following the . The winner was with the song "", composed by Rolf Løvland, written by Petter Skavlan and performed by Secret Garden. , , and Denmark rounded out the top five, with Spain achieving their best result since . and also achieved their best results so far, placing sixth and seventh respectively, while finished in last place for the fourth time.


Location

The 1995 contest took place in
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, following the country's victory at the with the song " Rock 'n' Roll Kids", performed by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. It was the sixth time that Ireland had hosted the contest, having previously staged the event in , , , and , with all previous events held in Dublin except the 1993 contest which was held in
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. Ireland thus became the first, and only country to have hosted three successive contests. The selected venue was the
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, a concert and events venue located amongst the
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which had originally been built as a train depot to serve the nearby port. Opened as a music venue in 1988, it was closed for redevelopment and expansion in 2008 and is now known as the 3Arena. Having previously hosted the 1994 contest, Dublin became the first city to host two consecutive Eurovision Song Contests, with the Point Theatre also serving as the host venue for the second year in a row. Alternative venues in
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and
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were considered by RTÉ, however Dublin was chosen to stage the contest again as it was judged to have been the more cost-effective location. A proposal by the British broadcaster
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to host the contest, either by themselves or as a joint production hosted in
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, the capital city of
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, were also rejected by RTÉ as the Irish broadcaster chose to produce the contest on its own. RTÉ however did request a rule change, which was accepted by the EBU, which would have relieved them of the responsibility of producing the contest again should Ireland produce a fourth consecutive winner.


Production and format

The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was produced by the Irish public broadcaster (RTÉ). John McHugh served as executive producer, John Comiskey served as director, Alan Farquharson served as designers, and Noel Kelehan served as musical director, leading the
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. The show was presented by journalist and television presenter Mary Kennedy. Kennedy had previously served as the stand-by presenter at the ,
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ing for Doireann Ní Bhriain. RTÉ was reported to have spent
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2.3 million on staging the contest, with the
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and the National Lottery among the contest's sponsors. Through the partnership with the National Lottery, around 1,000 places in the audience were filled by members of the public who had won tickets by playing
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s. Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented. A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all participants were required to have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest. Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only
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s, however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers. The results of the 1995 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in : each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of sixteen individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, between men and women, and between those over and under 30 years of age. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded. In any cases where two or more songs in the top ten received the same number of votes, a show of hands by all jury members was used to determine the final placing. Rehearsals in the contest venue for the competing acts began on 8 May 1995. Each country had two technical rehearsals in the week approaching the contest, with countries rehearsing in the order in which they would perform. The first rehearsals took place on 8 and 9 May, with each country allowed 40 minutes total on stage, with an opportunity to review recordings with producers and to consult on suggested changes afterwards, followed by a 20 minute press conference. Each country's second rehearsals took place on 10 and 11 May, with 30 minutes total on stage. Three dress rehearsals were held with all artists, two held in the afternoon and evening of 12 May and one final rehearsals in the afternoon of 13 May. An audience was present for the second dress rehearsal in the evening of 12 May, with this rehearsal also recorded for use as a production stand-by in case of problems during the live contest. The competing delegations were additionally invited to a welcome
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during the week in the build-up to the event, organised by
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and hosted at the
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on the evening of 8 May. To celebrate the contest's fortieth anniversary, the show opened with a four-minute sequence, directed by Pat Cowap, containing clips and performances from previous contests; Cowap had previously served as director of the 1994 contest. The contest's interval act, entitled "", was an original piece composed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and which combined
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and sean-nós singing with contemporary music. Among the performers of "" were Súilleabháin on piano, Scottish percussionist
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, Irish singers Brian Kennedy and Nóirín Ní Riain, members of the Irish folk band Clannad, the Benedictine monks of Glenstal Abbey, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Proinnsías Ó Duinn. Kennedy would go on to perform at Eurovision again as a contestant, representing Ireland in the . The trophy awarded to the winners was designed by
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, and was presented by the previous year's winning artists Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan.


Participating countries

Twenty-three countries were permitted to participate in the contest, which was to comprise the sixteen highest-scoring countries in the 1994 contest and returning countries that had been
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and prevented from participating in the previous year's event. The total line-up was reduced from the twenty-five countries which participated in the 1994 contest to ensure that the event would not last longer than three hours. Of the seven countries which did not participate in 1994, , , , and returned to the contest, while and declined the invitation, which resulted in and , which were originally relegated, being allowed back into the line-up. , , , the , , and , as the lowest-scoring countries from the previous year's event, were thus ultimately relegated and were required to miss this event. Switzerland did not participate in the contest for the first time, leaving as the sole country to have participated in every edition of the contest to that point. Following the confirmation of the twenty-three competing countries, the draw to determine the running order was held on 9 December 1994.


Conductors

A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance, with the host musical director, Noel Kelehan, also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor. The conductors listed below led the orchestra during the performance for the indicated countries. * Noel Kelehan * Noel Kelehan * *
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* Geir Langslet * * Frank McNamara * Michael F. Kienzl * Eduardo Leiva *
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* * Michel Bernholc * Miklós Malek * * Mike Dixon * * George Theofanous *
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* Frede Ewert *
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* Gadi Goldman * Ray Agius * Haris Andreadis


Participants and results

The contest took place on 13 May 1995 at 20:00 ( IST) and lasted 2 hours and 51 minutes. The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which they performed, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting. The contest featured two representatives who had previously performed in the contest. Turkey's
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had previously represented her country at the as a member of the group Pan, and Cyprus's
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had provided backing vocals for two previous Cypriot entries, for Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis in 1989 and Elena Patroklou in . The winner was represented by the song "", composed by Rolf Løvland, written by Petter Skavlan and performed by Secret Garden. This was Norway's second contest win, following the victory by
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ten years previously at the with "", which was also written by Rolf Løvland; Løvland thus became one of four individuals to have won the contest more than once as an artist or songwriter up to that point in time, alongside Willy van Hemert, Yves Dessca and Johnny Logan. The group Secret Garden consisted principally of Norwegian composer and pianist Løvland and Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and was formed after the pair had met at the 1994 contest, where Sherry was a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Løvland was in attendance as composer of . For their performance during the contest they were joined by instrumentalists Hans Fredrik Jacobsen and Åsa Jinder and singer Gunnhild Tvinnereim. "" was a largely instrumental piece featuring only 24 words in total, with brief vocals only at the start and end of the song performed by Tvinnereim. Spain achieved its best result since by finishing as the contest's runner-up, and gained their highest placements to date by finishing in sixth and seventh place respectively, while conversely Germany finished in last place for the fourth time. The 1995 contest was the last edition of the contest where the top three songs were all performed in a language other than English until the .


Detailed voting results

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries. The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in ascending order. The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below.


12 points

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold.


Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country. As had been the case in the , the spokespersons were connected via
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and appeared in vision during the broadcast. Spokespersons at the 1995 contest are listed below. # Jan Chojnacki # Eileen Dunne # Carmen Nebel # Diana Grković-Foretić # # Marina Danielian # Áslaug Dóra Eyjólfsdóttir # # Belén Fernández de Henestrosa # Ömer Önder # # Thierry Beccaro #
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# Marie-Françoise Renson # Colin Berry #
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# Andreas Iakovidis # Björn Hedman # # Miša Molk # Daniel Pe'er # Stephanie Farrugia # Fotini Giannoulatou


Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.


Notes and references


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