Go_A have taken a tour of Chernobyl, to explore the origins of “Shum”, which is based on a folk song from that region. You can watch the video below: Let us know what you think about Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest – either in the comments below […]
The UEFA 2020 European Championships are here after a postponement of one year – more commonly known as Euro 2020. Each day, we will upload tracks into our Jukebox articles, to accompany the matches played on that day. Today sees three matches – Ukraine vs. North Macedonia, Denmark […]
The UEFA 2020 European Championships are here after a postponement of one year – more commonly known as Euro 2020. Each day, we will upload tracks into our Jukebox articles, to accompany the matches played on that day. Today sees three matches – England vs. Croatia, Austria vs. […]
Go_A finished 5th at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, with their entry “Shum”. Following the cancellation of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, when Go_A were due to represent Ukraine with “Solovey”, they covered Verka Serduchka’s entry “Dancing Lasha Tumbai”. You can watch the cover below: Let us know […]
Since 2004, when the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Istanbul, Turkey, a Semi Final/s have been in place. 17 years later, Ukraine are the only country left to have a 100% qualification record. In 2005 and 2017, Ukraine qualified automatically as the host nation, while they were […]
Tonight, the First Semi Final of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest will be taking place, live from Rotterdam. Eurovision Ireland are aware that you will want to discuss your potential qualifiers and all the performances across Social Media, so here are the hashtags you will need: Lithuania – […]
With only a matter of days to go before the First Semi Final, we thought we’d have a look back at the second rehearsals of the participating countries. Would you like a reminder of what we thought? Have a look back at our #LiveBlogs from their first and […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Ukraine. Ukraine debuted at the Contest in 2003, in Riga, Latvia. Oleksandr Ponomariov finished in […]
Olga Shimanskaya, the Russian participant at the 2020 Turkvision Song Contest, has won the Audience Sympathy Award – after the vote closed on New Year’s Eve. Olga took victory with 39,588 after competing against thirteen of the other 2020 Turkvision participants. No monetary prize was awarded, unlike the […]
This has been a very different year thanks to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, however we have had plenty of Eurovision related music to enjoy. Here at Eurovision Ireland and our friends from the around the Eurovision Community, we have chosen just five tracks that have summed up our […]