Sarbel and Sakis Rouvas Down Under

Sarbel, this year's Greek representative at the Eurovision Song Contest will be touring Australia next month together with popular Greek singer Natassa Theodoridou. Sakis Rouvas,who represented the country in 2004 and hosted the 2006 contest will be visiting Australia as well for a single concert in April 2008, together with Antonis Remos.

Sarbel will be performing in Melbourne on July 6 at the Metro Night Club, and at the Westgate Entertainment Complex on July 7. The following week he will be in Adelaide on July 13 at the HQ Headquarters and in Sydney, at the Enmore Theater on July 14. More information on tickets and booking can be found here.

Sakis Rouvas will also be visiting Australia for a single appearance at the Melbourn Vodafone Arena on Saturday 12 April 2008, together with popular Greek singer Antonis Remos. The four-hour concert is expected to sell out due to the popularity of the two singers. Tickets will be available from October 1 at ticketek. More information can be found here.

source www.esctoday.com

Marija cancels trip after hospitalisation

Marija Serifovic has been forced to cancel her trip to Norway where she was supposed to be performing tomorrow night at the Eurovision Memory Lane concert in Oslo in front of an estimated 5,000 crowd tomorrow night. Marija is currently hospitalised after straining her vocal chords and will not be able to travel to Oslo.

The producer of the memory lane event told Gaysir website "this is very sad, especially for a young talent such as Marija. She has promised to come to Norway this autumn but until then, she has to rest her voice". He went on to wish Marija a speedy recovery to the problem which is most likely down to her gruelling schedule since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. Marija played at the Budva festival on Sunday before seeking medical help after pain in her throat.

Although the contest winner will not be travelling to Norway, this year's home entrant, Guri Schanke has stepped in to fill the breach and will be performing tomorrow night. We are also promised some surprise appearances in what is expected to be the largest Eurovision Memory Lane event so far.

source www.esctoday.com

Two semi finals in 2009!

At the annual EBU press conference, the supervisor of the contest, Svante Stockselius, among other things explained about the future of Eurovision.

The format currently in use will be in use one more year. After that, a two semi final system will be introduced. Exactly how everything around this will be solved is not yet decided, but what Svante made very clear is that the way the countries will be divided into the two semi finals will be decided by a draw and not by time-zones, in spite of rumours that have been circulating the media. If the big four countries will participate in the semi-finals or not is yet to be decided.

The preliminary dates for next year's contest are 22nd and 24th of May.

source www.escnation.com

Nana Mouskouri on This Morning ITV

Nana Mouskouri who came 8th the Eurovison Song Contest for Luxembourg in 1963, appeaerd on ITV 1 at 12:15 - 12:30 Today. Nana is considered to be one of the most successful female singers in history, reportedly having sold over 350 million records world-wide. Now, the 72 year old legend, after 45 years of stage , has decided to say Farewell with an extensive world wide tour.
Her appearance on today's This Morning show, was to promote her performances this October in the UK as part of her 4 year farewell tour. The tour began two years ago in Scandinavia and it will take her all over the globe. She has played Germany, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Asia as well as parts of Europe.

Nana came on in a Black dress with a red jacket, She was introduced with a exclusive clip of her performance back in 1963, at the Eurovision Song Contest. She then was interviewed by the 2 hosts which commented on her fluency in 5 languages, and her 1350 songs all in 11 different languages!

She then talked about her Fairwell tour, which Nana described more as a Thank you tour. The tour started in Germany and will end in Greece.

Nana then talked about her childhood and growing up in Nazi occupied Greece. "Children need to be heard and by singing I was heard".

Nana was congradulated by the hosts, for not changing her image to fit with modern sterotypes, but as a one off, Nana tried on several new pairs of designer glases for the show, including DKNY and a nice pair of Red spectacles.

Nana said "I never thought that I would grow that old. It is better really to stop while you are standing well on your feet. I just want to be proud and in very good form and thank the audience for all this love." Nana's fluency in manylanguages; Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese has enabled her to reach audiences all over Europe, the Americas and even Asia.

The Show ended with a quick reminder about Nana's Thank you tour, coming to London in October. At various dates at the Royal Albert Hall. You can book tickets on Nana's Website.

source from esctoday.com

Greece: Mad video music awards held yesterday

The Mad Video Music Awards 2007, took place yesterday, 25th of June, in Athens, Greece. Many Greek Eurostars performed live on stage and Helena Paparizou, Sakis Rouvas and Michalis Hatziyiannis were amongst the night's big winners. Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yancoulov, this year's Bulgarian representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest won the Bulgarian MAD TV Best video clip award.

Many Greek Eurovision stars and hopefuls participated and performed live at last nights' MAD TV Awards show. Elena Paparizou, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, appeared on stage with her 70’s black style dress. She was the one to start the show and she performed her new song “Mi figeis”.Michalis Hatziyiannis, who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 for Cyprus with the song “Genesis”, was actually the big winner of the night, walking away with a total of four awards. Michalis also performed on stage with Reamonn, the famous German band, singing the greek-english version of Tonight(Simera).

Tamta who participated in this year’s Greek national final with the song “With love”, sang Mika's Relax-Take it easy, remixed with her new single "Agapise me".

These are wining artists in this year’s Mad music awards:

• Best dance video clip: Sakis Rouvas for the song “Ola giro sou girizoun”
• Best pop video clip: Mihalis Hatzigiannis for the song “Ola I tipota”
• Best Greek (laiko)video clip: Peggy ZinaBest video clip by a male artist: Mihalis Hatzigiannis for the song “Ola I tipota”Best video clip by a female artist: Helena Paparizou for the song “Gigolo”
• Best video clip: Kostas Kapetanidis,director of Elena’s Paparizou nr.1 video clip 2005
• Best video clip of the year: Mihalis Hatzigiannis with the song “Ola I tipota”
  Best dressed artist in a video clip: Helena Paparizou for the song “An eixes erthei pio polly”
• Best video clip by MAD-TV Bulgaria: Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov
  Best artist of the year with the most played video clip: Michalis Hatziyiannis with the song “Ola I tipota”

Source esctoday.com

Winner for JESC Romania 2007 is:

Winner for jesc Romania 2007 is: 4 Kids - Sha la la


This is a strong dance song. A member of the band is Alina Ieremias -Romania 2005 brother. They are dressed in red.
The show is chatchy and a Eurovision style song.

Good luck Romania!

TVR decide for Junior Eurovision now!

01. În jurul lumii (Mera Alexandra)
02. Fetiţa deocheată (Trupa A+)
03. Zbor (Loică Andrei)
04. Bum, bum, bum (Ghiţă Karina)
05. Mă dusei ziua la coasă (Trupa Fifty – Fifty)
06. Mama nu ştie (Mateiuc Alexandra Gabriela)
07. Suntem mereu OK (Trupa Chic)
08. Duby Duby (Trupa D @ D )
09. Putem fi prieteni (Lazăr Ovidiu)
10. Rebele (Trupa R.B.L., Iaşi)
11. Rock şi Cha Cha (Trupa Iforti)
12. Trece (Niculae Norina Sânziana)
13. Sha-la-la (Trupa 4 Kids)
14. Asta-s eu (Pânzaru Stănescu Iulian)

Source www.TVR1.ro