This is probably going to be one of the briefest Letters From Estonia because I’ve spent my day at Saku Suurhall – yes it has been Eesti Laul rehearsals day. Without going on about it too much, you can catch up with the earlier activity HERE. Today was […]
Back in 2007, Ukrainian superstar Verka Serduchka sang “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” and took Europe by storm despite no one knowing what ‘lasha tumbai’ really meant. While Verka alleged it was Mongolian for ‘churned butter’, some suggested it was actually a phonetic phrase to sound like ‘Russia goodbye’… is […]
The Netherlands will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song “Lights and Shadows” composed by Rory de Kievit, Rick Vol and performed by girl group O’G3NE. The song and official music video was released today and you can watch it performed below. O’G3NE will perform in Kyiv […]
#JoinUs today at 09:50 CET for our LIVE Rolling Blog of Eesti Laul Final Rehearsals, where ten acts will rehearse before competing tomorrow night to win that all important ticket to Kyiv. Just refresh this page from 09:50CET on a regular basis and join me, Richard Taylor to get […]
The Eurovision Family of Events has grown again for 2017. Eurovision Choir of the Year will debut this year in Riga and take place on Saturday 22nd July. It has been confirmed that seven participating broadcasters will take part in the debut contest. These are: ORF – Austria […]
This year see’s the 10th Anniversary of this highly popular Preview Party for the Eurovision Song Contest. Again it’ll be held at the Café De Paris and is already SOLD OUT – that was before the first artist had been announced! Let’s have a reminder of last year’s […]
Yes, I’ve landed ready for six fun days here in Tallinn – primarily covering Eesti Laul for you the Eurovision Ireland readers!!! Many of the Fan and Press community landed either yesterday or today and more are due to land tomorrow and as late as Saturday. Most of […]
A shock announcement was made by SBS in Australia today. Something probably more controversial than Australia actually taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest itself, it was announced today that Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang will no longer be commentating for the Australian television network. Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang […]
Jacques Houdek (35) released today on his youtube channel the official lyric video for Croatia’s entry at Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The song entitled “My Friend” is sung in both English and Italian at it’s an art that took over eight months to be completed. Mr Željko Mesar, the […]
On March 5th Romania will decide their representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2017! The final will be in Bucharest at one of TVR’ studios and will be broadcasted live via TVR 1, TVR International and TVR HD. Ten acts will compete for the chance to wave the Romanian […]