Today is the deadline day for any interested broadcasters to confirm their participation for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Any broadcaster withdrawing their interest after today could face a financial penalty. To date, 14 countries have confirmed participation – however there seems to be some doubt surrounding […]
Is there a song that really means something to you? Something that made you really fall in love with Eurovision? Something that you associate with a particular event in your life? In our ‘The Real Me’ articles, we get to the root of why we can’t get enough […]
Armenian Head of Delegation, David Tserunyan, has announced today that Armenia will be participating at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, as well as next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will be in Rotterdam. It is currently unknown how the Armenian representative will be selected for Warsaw. However, […]
The first semi final of “Szansa na Sukces” has taken place this afternoon with the theme Inter-generational Hits. Lena Marzec was the lucky contestant to progress to the final on Sunday 27th September. The jury of Viki Gabor, Edyta Gorniak and Piotr Rubik had the 100% to decide […]
Back in MARCH, this year’s edition of Eurovision Young Musicians was postponed from the original date in June, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, several undisclosed broadcasters have told Eurofestivales that this year’s Contest will not take place in 2020. The EBU Musical Reference Group will be meeting […]
Amadeus, the Artistic Director for the 2021 Sanremo Festival, has come out with a blunt message surrounding next year’s Festival and the current Coronavirus pandemic. He had the following to say: “The 2021 Festival, what for me is 70 + 1, must be the first post Coronavirus, that […]
BIRTHDAY: Michele Perniola from San Marino is 22 today When we celebrate birthdays, usually the performers have seen a few summers. People in their 60s, 70s, even 80s are all worth celebrating. So it’s very different when someone who took part five years ago is still only in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Emly Starr from Belgium is 63 today Our friends in Belgium are a curious bunch. Plucky as ever, and taking part since the first contest (1956 in case you were wondering), and only ever had one win. It’s a nice arrangement that the broadcasters for the two […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dado Topić from Croatia is 71 today We celebrate all manner of things with our birthdays. The winners, the losers, the ‘also-ran’s. They all count, and you can guarantee that someone out there will like every single Eurovision song. So just occasionally, a song might not quite […]
After PREVIOUSLY making the final eleven, by submitting covers as their application, both Nikita Achkasov and Darin Osman will be performing “Hello” in the final round – a song provided by UA:PBC, the Ukrainian national broadcaster. Voting for the Ukrainian participant will take place online between Saturday 5th […]