PRG LEA 2016: First nominees revealed

The organisers of the PRG Live Entertainment Awards (PRG LEA) have revealed the first batch of nominees for the 2016 event.

Below are the finalists in the categories ‘indoor tour of the year’, covering concert tours in mid-size (2,000–5,000-capacity) venues; ‘festival of the year’, awarded this year to the best new festival of 2015; ‘club of the year’; and ‘artist manager/agent of the year’.

Indoor tour of the year

• Chilly Gonzales, CG and Emperor Quartet (Karsten Jahnke/Konzertbüro Schoneberg)
• Fettes Brot, Teenager vom Mars (KKT)
• Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach, Got Your Six Tour (Wizard Promotions)
• Rise Against’s 2015 tour (x-why-z)
• Tedros Teclebrhan, Teddy-Show (Ralph Schiller)

Festival of the year

• A Summer’s Tale, Luhmuehlen (FKP Scorpio)
• Parookaville, Weeze (Parookaville GmbH)
• Rock in Vienna, Danube Island (Blue Moon Entertainment)

Club of the year

• Arena, Vienna (Wien-ARENA)
• Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg (MGB Musikladen Gastronomie Betriebs)
• Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland (Z7 Konzertfabrik)

Artist manager/agent of the year

• Nicolas Gundel (Hamburg Artist Management), manager of Johannes Oerding
• Timo Holstein (eigenARTevents.com), manager of Ludi
• Ulf Wenderlich (Valiart Management), manager of Joris

Additional nominations will be announced in early March.

The LEAs are presented on the eve of Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, this year on 4 April.

Musikmesse, the trade event for the musical instrument industry, will this year incorporate a Eurosonic Noorderslag-style multi-venue music festival in the evenings after the show.