Harb Festival 2017

Harb Festival 2017 was the 4th edition of the annual music festival/competition that selected the Harbingean Provinces' entry for the Chummervision Radio Festival 2017. The final took place on 10 February 2017 at the Hyphenation Arena in Bexhill, following 4 heats and 1 Wild Card round to determine the finalists.

The winner of the contest was "Killing Me" by Ofelia K who won in a landslide by the jury voters, while finishing second in the televote. 7.7 million viewers tuned in for the final, up 500,000 from the previous year.

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Format
For the first time since Harb Festival 2015, the semi-finals, wild card round and final will not take place in one week. They will instead take place weekly, with the exception of the wild card round which will take place mid-week before the final.

This year the semi-finals and final will take place on Fridays, in order to tie in with new music releases and allow the wild card and non-qualifying entries to be released ahead of the next week's chart. In addition to this, it has been stated that the Harbingean Singles Chart will be counted down each week as a new feature to the contest.

Line-Up
The full line-up for the 2017 festival was announced on 5 January 2017.

Semi-Final 1
The first semi-final took place on Friday 13 January.

Betsy opened the show performing "Wanted More". Some of the week's Harbingean Singles Chart top ten entries were also performed on the show, including Jain performing "Makeba", Olivia Holt performing "Phoenix" and "History", and Amy MacDonald performing her number-one single "Dream On".

Semi-Final 2
The second semi-final took place on Friday 20 January.

Guest performers included last year's runner-up machineheart performing their hit single "Stonecold", and Little Mix performing their latest single "Touch".

Semi-Final 3
The third semi-final took place on Friday 27 January.

Guest performers included Hey Violet performing "Brand New Moves", and Ed Sheeran performing "Castle On The Hill".

Semi-Final 4
The fourth semi-final took place on Friday 3 February.

Guest performers included The Amazons performing "Little Something", and Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa performing "Scared To Be Lonely".

Wild Card Round
The Wild Card round took place on Monday 6 February.

Guest performers included Sabrina Carpenter performing her newest single "Thumbs", and Gabrielle Aplin performing a piano rendition of "Miss You".

Final
The final took place on Friday 10 February.

Reigning Harb Festival 2016 champions Caravan Palace opened the show performing "Lone Digger". After the voting lines opened, MY, reigning champion of Egerton Festival 2016, performed her songs "White Water", "Invincible", and "Pretty Little Liar". After the jury votes were revealed, Crystal Fighters performed "Good Girls" and "Yellow Sun". Caravan Palace returned to the stage to perform a cover of "Black Betty", followed by That Poppy performing her newest song "Adored". The last interval of the night before the televotes were revealed was Grimes, performing her newest single "Venus Fly" featuring Janelle Monáe.