Lied van Liedjes 29

This was the twenty-ninth Lied van Liedjes to be held. It would occur between 9th and 11th January 2003

Organization
Utrecht was the city picked to host the 29th edition of the contest. Lucia Danielsen remained as the executive, Eila Kekkonen as the director and as the coordinator they picked a veteran, Gerrit Van Can, becoming the second contest he would be coordinator.

Contest
A small decrease could be made on the fee of participation, with this countries like, and  could return to the contest. and managed to pay the fee thanks to the neighbors help. returned after the news of the withdrawal. And the last country to return was who managed to pay the fee. Not only Israel withdrew. and both withdrew due to misunderstandings between them and the LVL production team. , and  tried to return but failed with paying the participation fee. Others countries that failed to return includes:, and. Failed to debut: - the arab country wanted to participate after hearing the news of Israeli withdraw, even though no further negociations were made.

With this 41 nations are participating, deciding to make regional two semifinals (west and east) with one second chance group only. The automatic qualifiers would be the host, and the rest of the previous edition top 5:, ,  and.

Semi-Final 1
, and  voted on this Semi.

Semi-Final 2
and voted on this semi.