List of host cities of the ABU Song Festivals

This page is a list of cities and venues that have hosted the ABU Radio Song Festival, ABU TV Song Festival, and ABU International Dance Festival, one or more times. Future venues are shown in italics. The first venue in both the ABU Radio Song Festival 2012 and ABU TV Song Festival 2012, coincided with the 49th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. The host cities of the ABU Radio Song Festivals from 2014 onwards are elected during ABU Administrative Council meetings. Whereas the host cities of the ABU TV Song Festivals remain to coincide to take place in the host country of the ABU General Assembly meetings.[1]

ABU Radio Song Festival
Contests Country City Venue Years Date
1  South Korea[2] Seoul KBS Hall 2012 11 October 2012
 Sri Lanka[3] Colombo Stein Studios 2014 23 May 2014
 Myanmar[4] Yangon National Theatre of Yangon 2015 29 May 2015
 China[5] Beijing China National Radio Auditorium 2016 26 April 2016
 Thailand[6] Bangkok TBA 2017 27 April 2017
 Kazakhstan[7] Astana Kazmedia Centre 2018 11 July 2018

ABU TV Song Festival
Contests Country City Venue Years Date
1  South Korea[8] Seoul KBS Hall 2012 14 October 2012
 Vietnam[9] Hanoi Hanoi Opera House 2013 26 October 2013
 Macau[10] Macau Sands Theatre 2014 25 October 2014
 Turkey[11] Istanbul Istanbul Congress Center 2015 28 October 2015
 Indonesia[12] Bali Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre 2016 22 October 2016
 China[13] Chengdu S1 SRT Studio 2017 1 November 2017

ABU International Dance Festival
Contests Country City Venue Years Date
2  India[14] Hyderabad Shilpakala Vedika 2017 15 January 2017
New Delhi[15] Hotel Taj Palace[15] 2019 9 March 2019

ABU Song Contest
Contests Country City Venue Years Date
1  China Qingdao West Coast Star Island 2020 16–18 April 2020

See also

References
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  12. Granger, Anthony (6 January 2016). "ATSF16 5th ABU TV Song Festival to be held in October 2016". eurovoix-world.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  13. Granger, Anthony (18 April 2017). "ABU TV Song Festival 2017 participation deadline window closes". eurovoix-world.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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