Two acts have qualified from the second Junior Eurovision Éire heat in Ireland. This year, the format for the selection changed. The competitors are now required to sing Irish covers of well known English language songs, rather than original songs. Each participant was scored out of 30, and the highest scoring participant advanced through to…
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Two acts have now qualified from the first Junior Eurovision Éire heat in Ireland. This year, the format for the selection changed. The competitors are now required to sing Irish covers of well known English language songs, rather than original songs. Each participant was scored out of 30, and the highest scoring participant advanced through…
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There have been few Junior Eurovision announcements thus far, but September will prove to be a big month in the lead up to the contest. A handful of nations will be selecting their acts and/or entries, so here’s what we know so far: September 1st: Ireland will once again be holding a national selection to…
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Our Best of the Bunch series continues, but this time, we’re crossing over between the two main formats of Eurovision, the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The concept is simple, we take the Eurovision and Junior Eurovision entries of a certain year and put them up against each other in a…
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Irish broadcaster TG4 has now revealed that the Junior Eurovision selection will begin airing on September 1st. The semi-finals for the show were filmed earlier this month in Dublin, and the broadcast of the show will last five weeks. The final will be broadcasted on September 29th. It was previously announced that there would be…
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Earlier in the Junior Eurovision season, it was announced that Ireland would be sticking with the national final format, however now it has been revealed that there will be some changes to the selection. Irish broadcaster TG4 has announced that a total of 28 participants will feature in the selection this year, and the participants…
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The EBU has now revealed the final participant list for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. A total of 19 countries will participate at the contest which will be held in Gliwice-Silesia, Poland, in November. Here are the participating nations: Albania (RTSH) Armenia (AMPTV) Australia (ABC / SBS) Belarus (BTRC) France (France TV) Georgia (GPB)…
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You may remember our original Best of the Bunch series, which aimed to find the best Eurovision entry from each nation from the years 2006 to 2015. From that series, we created the ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ which featured the winners of each of the poll, which you can read here. Over the past year, we aimed…
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Irish broadcaster TG4 has begun the search for the next Irish Junior Eurovision participant in what will mark their 5th participation at the contest. The broadcaster opened the application process in late May, calling for singers to take part in the Irish selection process. It has not yet been made clear whether the broadcaster will…
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Today marked the second day of the second rehearsals for the semi-finalists, starting with Greece through to Austria Who impressed, and who runs the risk of non-qualification? Our guest writer Dennis (ESCdaily) gave his thoughts on the performances of the day! Greece Greece goes pastel colours lilac and yellow and we get to see a…
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