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Portugal: These are the dates for the three shows of Festival da Canção 2024!

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A couple of hours ago, RTP announced the dates of all three shows of this year’s Festival da Canção, on a post on the official Instagram account of the Portuguese national selection process!

On the 18th of January there would be a livestream on TikTok where the Portuguese national broadcaster will reveal more details on this year’s Festival da Canção and the competing songs! The livestream will start from 12:10 UTC.

This is the schedule of the three shows of Festival da Canção:

  • Semi Final 1: Saturday 24 February 2023
  • Semi Final 2: Saturday 2 March 2023
  • Grand Final: Saturday 9 March 2023

Last year’s Festival da Canção winner and ultimately, the Portuguese representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, UK was Mimicat with the song “Ai coração“, that placed 23rd on the Grand Final, continuing the Portuguese three-year qualification streak.

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Source: RTP / Festival da Canção Instagram Account

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Portugal: A record number of entries were submitted for Festival Da Canção 2024!

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Back in August, Portugal confirmed its 2024 participation via the “Festival Da Canção” page on Instagram. Along with Portugal’s participation, it was confirmed that Festival Da Canção, a music festival of great significance in Portugal, will remain as the country’s selection format for Eurovision 2024.

The deadline of the submission process was yesterday, October 15. All Portuguese citizens or residents, including Portuguese living outside Portugal, as well as citizens of other nationalities residing in Portugal, could apply.

In total, RTP announced that a record number of 809 entries were submitted through this open submission. The high interest seems totally reasonable, considering the significance of FDC in the national music scene and the relatively successful course of the country in Eurovision the past years.

What’s next?

As far as the Festival da Canção 2024 is concerned, 20 songs will compete.

  • 14 of those will be selected following an invitation by the country’s national broadcaster RTP to creators of various music genres.
  • The remaining six will be selected through this afore-mentioned submission process, which turns out to be really successful as well as highly competitive for the contenders.

The winner of Festival Da Canção 2023 and hence, Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Mimicat with her song “Ai Coração”, which finished 23rd in the Grand Final.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYfkxX4PFyw

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Portugal: Participation confirmed for Malmö 2024!

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Portugal will be present at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.

A few minutes ago it became known through the official account of the Festival da Canção on Instagram that the country of the Iberian Peninsula will compete this time on Swedish soil, something that had not happened after the 1992 Competition and then in Malmö. For the record, Portugal due to poor results and financial reasons had decided to stay away from the 2000, 2013 and 2016 competitions which coincidentally took place in Sweden.

As far as the Festival da Canção 2024 is concerned, 20 songs will compete, of which 14 will be selected following an invitation by the country’s national broadcaster RTP to creators of various music genres, while the remaining six will be selected through the submission process . The submission process for original and unpublished songs is open from today until October 15, 2023. All Portuguese citizens or residents, including Portuguese living outside Portugal, as well as citizens of other nationalities residing in Portugal, can apply for these 6 positions. The selection of these six songs will be done by submitting the tracks to RTP. These tracks must be available by filling out the form available here.

In this year’s contest in Liverpool the country was represented by Mimicat and her song “Ai coração” which finished 23rd in the Grand Final receiving 59 points.

https://youtu.be/HYfkxX4PFyw

Source: RTP

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Portugal: The is the allocation draw for the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023!

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Just a while ago, the publiv broadcaster of Portugal,RTP, revealed the allocation of the 20 competing artists, in the two semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023!

The wel-known Portuguese music festival will return for another year and the winner and country’s representative in Eurovision 2023, will be decided through two semi-final rounds and the Grand Final. This is how the semi-finas look like, after the allocation draw took place in the headquarters of RTP:

Fisrt Semi-Final

  1. April Ivy
  2. Churky
  3. Cláudia Pascoal
  4. Jacinta
  5. Mimicat
  6. MOYAH
  7. NEOH SOHO
  8. Quim Albergaria
  9. SAL
  10. You Can’t Win Charlie Brown

Second Semi-Final

  1. André Henriques
  2. Bandua
  3. Bárbara Tinoco
  4. Dapunksportif
  5. Edmundo Inácio
  6. Inês Apenas
  7. Ivandro
  8. Teresinha Landeiro
  9. The Happy Mess
  10. Voodoo Marmalade

We remind you that Festival da Canção 2023 will take place in Lisbon, on these days:

  • First Semi-Final : February 25, 2023
  • Second Semi-Final: March 5, 2023
  • Grand Final: March 11, 2023

The Grand Final will take place with 10 songs, and the winner will be decided by a combination of 50% public vote and 50% jury vote.

The previous winner of Festival da Canção and Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Maro with the song “saudade, saudade“ that ended up in 9th place of the Grand Final, keeping Portugal’s qualification streak for the second year in a row:

https://youtu.be/mZtbD47u6yI

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Portugal: Maro with a different stage performance in Eurovision 2022!

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Portugal’s representative for Eurovision 2022 Maro, stated that there will be some changes in her appearance for the contest in May.

Speaking on the official podcast of Festival da Canção, Maro promised some changes in her performance of the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.

Maro said she would have a “slightly different” appearance at Eurovision in May than the one we saw at the Festival da Canção, however, it is unlikely we will see a drastic change. Maria Ferreira, who is a member of the Portuguese delegation, also said that RTP was open to changes regarding the stage presence for the competition.

Maro was selected to represent Portugal using Festival da Canção. In the Grand Final, she received a maximum of 12 points from both the jury and the public and finished 10 points ahead of the second-placed act.

Who is Maro ?

The singer and composer Maro, was born on October 30, 1994, despite her young age, she wrote her first song at the age of 11. She knows how to play piano, guitar and bass. She graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston and in 2018 she released her first album.

Portugal will compete in the second half of the first semi-final.

Listen to Portugal’s participation below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqfvqsLDSU

Source: eurovoix

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Portugal: The running order of Festival da Canção 2022!

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RTP has just announced the running order for the national final that will select the Portuguese entrant for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Festival da Canção 2022!

Pongo & Tristany will open the grand final while Pepperoni Passion will close the night!

The running order of the grand final is as follows:

  1. Pongo & Tristany – Dégrá.dê
  2. SYRO –  Ainda Nos Temos
  3. Milhanas – Corpo de Mulher
  4. Inês Homem de Melo – Fome de Viagem
  5. Aurea – Why
  6. Os Quatro E Meia – Amanhã
  7. FF – Bom Esperar Alguém
  8. Diana Castro – Ginger Ale
  9. MARO – saudade, saudade
  10. Pepperoni Passion – Código 30

The results of Festival da Canção 2022 will be decided 50% by the regional juries and the remaining 50% of the result by the public vote. The televoting has already started.

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Source: Eurovoix

Portugal: Interview with Jonas | From Eurovision 2008 to Festival da Canção 2022! (Video)

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After the announcement of his candidacy for this year’s portuguese national final, Festival da Canção 2022, Jonas speaks exclusively to EurovisionFun‘s Apostolos Bogiannos and Paschalis Barmpoutis.

Jonas is one of the candidates of the portuguese national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 and will try to represent his country with the song “Pontas Soltas”.

I’m releasing an album. I’m starting now. I did musical theater, but my main thing is being a fado singer. It feels like I’m beginning again after all these years. It’s an opportunity for people to know about my music.
Pontas soltas is a protuguese expression about something unsolved. It’s about a relationship that ended in the wrong leaving many issues to be solved. It’s a recurring theme in fado music. This kind of music has mysticism. The song was written especially for FdC and I was invited by RTP to participate.

Apart from being a singer, Jonas is also a choreographer. This is something that can help him with his staging in the national final:

I can’t say much about my staging. It’s a surprise. It’s very connected with fado and with dance. I’m very nervous to be compared to other artists. I’m trying not to see anything on the Internet. I like everything to be united and not seen separately.

Despite being anxious by the procedure, Jonas has already some favorites among the festival’s songs. He prefers the songs by Pongo & Tristany and Milhanas.

FdC changed a lot after the victory of Salvador Sobral. Salvador Sobral was an unusual phenomenon in ESC. Noone expected a very simple and fragile song with just him alone on stage would win. It’s good to see all these different styles and songs. It’s much richer now with huge names of the portuguese music, it gives me more will to participate in FdC.

His favorite portuguese entry is “Desfolhada” by Simone de Oliveira (1969) and of course “Senhora do mar” by Vânia Fernandes (2008), where he participated as a back vocalist. Among other Eurovision entries he likes Netta‘s song (Israel 2018).

Being a back vocalist in the portuguese entry in 2008, Jonas spoke about his experience in the contest and about their pleasant coexistence with the greek delegation.

Just before the end of the interview, Jonas sang a part of his song a capella for the readers of eurovisionfun.

Watch the whole interview with Jonas in the video that follows:

 

Portugal: Festival Da Canção 2022 songs to be released on the 21st of January!

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A few minutes ago, the official Instagram account of Festival Da Canção announced that the songs that will compete this year for the representation of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, will be released this Friday, January the 21st!

The 20 composers that will take part in this year’s  Festival Da Canção are the following:
  • Agir
  • Aurea
  • Blacci
  • Cubita
  • DJ Marfox
  • Fábia Rebordão
  • Fado Bicha
  • FF
  • Joana Espadinha
  • Kumpania Algazarra
  • Maro
  • Norton
  • Os Azeitonas
  • Pedro Marques
  • Pepperoni Passion
  • PZ
  • Syro
  • The Mister Driver
  • Tiago Nogueira (Os Quatro e Meia)
  • Valas

We remind you that ten songs will compete in each of the two semi finals, out of a total of 20. In the Final show we will have 5 qualifiers of each semi final, leading to a total of 10 competing songs. The winning act will get the chance to represent Portugal in Turin!

The detailed schedule of Festival Da Canção 2022 is described below:

  • First Semi on the 5th of March
  • Second Semi on the 7th of March
  • The Grand Final on the 12th of March

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Elisa is going to Rotterdam for Portugal

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After Salvador Sobral, Cláudia Pascoal and Conan Osíris had winning the last three years of the renewed edition of Festival da Canção, the city of Elvas hosted the 2020’s Portuguese national final Saturday evening, presenting the eight finalists coming from the two previous semifinals.
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