Today the EBU announced the final list of participants. The number of countries has increased from last year’s contest, we will see 43 countries participate in the 61st Eurovision Song Contest! The 43 countries hoping to take home the Eurovision 2016 trophy are: Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia …
POLL: Who Should Win JESC 2015?
Tomorrow night the participants from 17 countries will take to the stage in Bulgaria and will be broadcast live to the world, all hoping to take home the trophy of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Who do you think should win tomorrow night? Here is the recap from the dress rehearsal to help you make up your mind: [socialpoll …
JESC: Day 4 of Rehearsals
The fourth day of rehearsals have concluded and all acts have now had two rehearsals. There are no more split rehearsals for this years contest. Tomorrow the kids will take to the stage for the first dress rehearsal at 13:00CET followed at 19:30CET for the jury final, where the jury members from 17 participating countries will make their decisions and …
JESC: Day 2 of Rehearsals
The second day of rehearsals for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest is now complete. Kids from 8 countries took to the stage to rehearse their entries for JESC this year. I am going to comment on the rehearsals after my first watch (views expressed in this article are my own, and not essentially those of ESCUnited.com). Let’s take a look at the …
JESC: Day 1 of Rehearsals
The first day of rehearsals for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest is now complete. Kids from 9 countries took to the stage to rehearse their entries for JESC this year. I am going to comment on the rehearsals after my first watch (views expressed in this article are my own, and not essentially those of ESCUnited.com). Let’s take a look …
Interview with Lina Kuduzović
Today we’ve talked with Lina Kuduzović, who will represent Slovenia in less than three weeks in Sofia at Junior Eurovision. Hello Lina, can you please tell us how was it participating at mini Ema. Can you compare it to Diegrössten Schweizer Talente. – Participating at mini Ema was different then Diegrössten Schweizer Talente because I at mini Ema I was singing my own …
JESC: 3 Weeks To Go!
This time in three weeks we will be watching the 13th Junior Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from Sofia, Bulgaria. 17 countries will take to the stage in hope of gaining the title of 2015 Junior Eurovision winner. Out of the 17 songs that will participate, we know 16 of them. We are only waiting for the newcomers, Ireland, to …
JESC: Lina Kuduzović To Represent Slovenia
The second ever Slovene entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest has now been announced! The final was between Leni and Lina, the winner of Mini EMA, was announced as Lina Kuduzović with the song “Prva ljubezen”. In 2014 Slovenia debuted at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Nisi Sam” performed by Ula Ložar who ended 12th out of 16, …
Dream Team 2016 – Slovenia
Next up for the dream team treatment is Slovenia. They’ve made it to two finals in a row now, so who did you trust to gain a third? The winner of the Slovene poll was Nika Zorjan, a 22-year old singer from Murska Sobota who performed backing vocals for Slovenia in 2014 and 2015, as well as attempting to represent …
LIVE COVERAGE: Rehearsal Day 4
We’ve now seen most of the semi finalists performing, so it’s going to be very interesting to find out how the remaining ones are staged. Once again we are covering everything LIVE from the press centre at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna. So far we’ve had a full run-through of all semi 1 participants and the first set of semi 2. Today, …