New year has just begun and Eurovision fans can be excited as this means we’re getting closer to the main event in Kyiv.

LTR – the the national broadcaster from Lithuania has revealed today the names of the participants and song titles competing in the countries selection for Eurovision 2017, Eurovizijos Atranka.

There will be 51 acts competing in four heats. The Grand Final will be held on 11th of March.

As with previous years, the shows will be filmed in advance, on Thursdays, and broadcast the following Saturday.

The acts and songs are as follows:

Heat One – January 7:

1. Vilius Krivickas & Edvinas Gurevičius (Golden Monkeys) – Septyni dievai
2. Ugnė Kudlaitė (Otreya) – Last Two Weeks
3. Augustė Vedrickaitė – It’s Not Over (Not To Me)
4. Edgaras Lubys – Could It Be?
5. Tadas Rimgaila & Tina – Tavo oda
6. Sasha Song – Never Felt Like This Before
7. Rūta Andruškevičiūtė – The Way To Your Heaven
8. Benas Malakauskas – Rolling
9. Audrius Petrauskas – Shine Like Gold
10. Justinas Stanislovaitis (Justin3) – Streets Of Vilnius
11. Dagna Kondratavičiūtė – Feel It
12. Paula Valentaitė – Never Let You Go

Heat Two – January 14

1. Valdas Lacko – It’s So Unfair
2. Monika Mėčiūtė – Runnin
3. Rugilė Daujotaitė – Perkūne ugniaveidi
4. Kotryna Juodzevičiūtė – Love Shadow
5. Deividas Žygas – Only You
6. Mia – Sacrifice
7. Rasa Kaušiūtė – Fly
8. Laura Steponavičienė (Lawreigna) – Freedom
9. Varjetė – My Story
10. Ego – My Story
11. Gabrielius Vagelis – Feel Free
12. Ieva Zasimauskaitė – You Saved Me
13. Gabrielė Vilkickytė – Jūra

Heat Three – January 21

1. Vidas Bareikis – I Love My Phone
2. Marius Petrauskas – She’s My Universe
3. Milda Martinkėnaitė & Saulenė Chlevickaitė – Paperheart
4. Gytis Ivanauskas (Lolita) – Get Frighten
5. Fusedmarc – Rain Of Revolution
6. Erika Astrauskaitė – No More
7. HIT – I Wanna Love You Tonight
8. Virgis Valuntonis – Victorious
9. Gražvydas – Paint The Sky Blue
10. Greta Sliaužytė – Like I Love You
11. Vilija Matačiūnaitė – I See The Lights
12. Dovydas Petrošius – Love Is Free
13. Strėlės (Jekaterina Pranevič & Anna Polukord) – Bastard

Heat Four – January 28

1. Alanas Chošnau – 7 Days
2. Valerija Iljinaitė – You Made Me Glow
3. Ruslanas Kirilkinas – When The Night Falls In
4. Vlad Max – I’ll Never Let You Down
5. Queens Of Roses – Fisherman
6. Evaldas Vaikasas – Fire Kisses
7. Elvina Milkauskaitė – Try
8. Aistė Pilvelytė – I’m Like Woolf
9. Julija Jegorova – Higher
10. Audrius Janonis – Run
11. Soliaris – Undefeatable
12. Rasa Vaštakaitė (Shiny Raia) – All You
13. Neringa Šiaudikytė – Running Out Of Time

From the list we can recognize Sasha Song (né Sasha Son) who previously represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2009.

Author: Bogdan Stefan

Source: LRT, Eurovision Ireland

Image source: Youtube capture – Donny Montel – I’ve been waiting for this night