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Red Tone wins FOMAT XIII
Victory said to be a complete Surprise for Suldanor Ska Band
Sharba, Cobura
Dec 12, 4898


Red Tone Surprised following being declared the Winner of FOMAT XIII

A Kalistani group has once more been declared the winner of the international Festival of Music Arts in Terra. This time, the winner is Red Tone, the Ska band from Suldanor who has been touring the Republic for more than a year. Red Tone's Victory makes the fourth time that a Kalistani group has won the contest, and the first time a Ska Band has won.

"Well, to be completely honest," said Lead singer Monica Pella, "We were not expecting to win, at all. We barely beat Comrade Idris in the poll, and didn't even know we had been entered into it, and here apparently, we won because we were the international fan favorites. But our favs were not even in the top half!"

Red Tone was part of a rowdy Kalistani Contingent at the Thirteenth FOMAT festival. "It was so fun to just hang out with the Gang and the Interrogators, and all our friends who came with us to the show," said Pella. "We got hella messed up during the show and had a great time. And then when they said we won, I thought I was seriously hearing things, Like, I couldn't even believe my own ears." The Kalistani band won on the basis of international televote, who put them into the clear lead, and allowed them to surpass the score for the Delatrian entry who performed "Ushalande." Kalistan won with 102 points, and most of the three point lead it had was from the televote.

"Well we were honored to participate and had a lot of fun over the week meeting all the folks from other nations. Cobura is such a neat and strange place, and it is definitely somewhere I would like to just come back to visit someday," said Pella. "The food is very good, many different spices in their food. I really liked it."

As the winners of the FOMAT contest, Kalistan will once more do Hosting duties. A committee is already formed and will hold FOMAT XIV at Sulari National Colosseum, an outdoor venue that seats more than 26,000. The Next FOMAT Contest will be held in June of 4901, and announcements for submissions will begin soon. Meanwhile, Red Tone Will return to Kalistan with a much larger profile and a guaranteed set of new fans, as the sound of ska begins to overtake the Republic.