The 2019 ABU TV Song Festival is set to take place at the NHK Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo.
This years ABU TV Song Festival will take place at the NHK Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo. The NHK Hall will play host to the eighth edition of the ABU TV Song Festival, with performers expected to take to the stage from around fifteen countries across the Asia-Pacific region.
The NHK Hall was constructed in June 1973 and is owned by the Japanese broadcaster NHK, who are also hosting this years ABU General Assembly. The venue is used by NHK for a variety of concerts across the course of the year and can hold up to 3,800 people.
The ABU TV Song Festival 2019 is scheduled to take place on November 19 in Tokyo. The ABU TV Song Festival was held for the first time in 2012 and is a non-competitive showcase from across the Asia-Pacific region. The following nations have taken part in the event:
- Afghanistan (2012 to 2013, 2015 to date)
- Australia (2012 to 2014)
- Benin (2018)
- Brunei (2013 to 2014)
- China (2012 to 2014, 2016 to 2017)
- Hong Kong (2012 to date)
- India (2015, 2017 to date)
- Indonesia (2012 to date)
- Iran (2013)
- Japan (2012 to date)
- Kazakhstan (2015 to date)
- Kyrgyzstan (2013, 2018)
- Macau (2014 to date)
- Malaysia (2012 to 2013, 2015, 2017 to date)
- Maldives (2014 to date)
- Russia (2018)
- Singapore (2012 to 2013)
- South Korea (2012 to date)
- Sri Lanka (2012 to 2013, 2016)
- Thailand (2013 to 2014)
- Tunisia (2016
- Turkey (2014 to 2015, 2018)
- Turkmenistan (2017 to date)
- Uzbekistan (2018)
- Vietnam (2012 to date)
- Zambia (2017)
