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Italy: Co-hosts of Festival di Sanremo 2025 revealed!

A few hours ago, Carlo Conti, the new artistic director and presenter of Festival di Sanremo, announced the celebrities that will accompany him in hosting each of the five nights, of one of the biggest music shows! Read more

Junior Eurovision 2024: Exclusive TV footage from all seventeen second rehearsals!

The rehearsals at Caja Mágica are in full swing as the first technical rehearsals have concluded and the second round is now underway.

The second set of rehearsals at Junior Eurovision has given delegations the opportunity to address any issues that came up during the first round. This has allowed the artists to feel more confident and secure as they prepare to take the main stage.

However, details about the performances remain limited, as accredited journalists are not allowed to attend either the first or second rehearsals. To give fans a sneak peek, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has shared a recap of all the seventeen second rehearsals on YouTube via the official Junior Eurovision channel. This exclusive footage offers highlights from today’s sessions, providing viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation process.

You can watch the recap of the second rehearsals below:

What’s next?

On Friday, November 15, the two Dress Rehearsals will be held. The Dress Rehearsals are full run-throughs of the show from start to finish, including the performances, interval acts, and voting sequence.

Then and it is time for Dress Rehearsals. The First Dress Rehearsal will take place on Friday morning, while the Second Dress Rehearsal will take place in the evening. The Second Dress Rehearsal is particularly important as it is also the Jury Final. This is when the seventeen national juries will watch the full show and cast their votes, which will help determine the final outcome of the competition.

Moreover, on Friday the first phase of the Online Voting will commence and the half of the contest’s outcome will be determined.

Junior Eurovision 2024

Seventeen countries will take part in the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest:

  1. Italy: Simone Grande – “Pigiama Party
  2. Estonia: Annabelle – “Tänavad
  3. Albania: Nikol Çabeli – “Vallëzoj
  4. Armenia: Leo – “Cosmic Friend
  5. Cyprus: Maria Pissarides – “Crystal Waters
  6. France: Titouan – “Comme ci, comme ça
  7. North Macedonia: Ana and Aleksej – “Marathon
  8. Poland: Dominik Arim – “All Together
  9. Georgia: Andria Putkaradze – “To My Mom
  10. Spain: Chloe DelaRosa – “Como la Lola
  11. Germany: Bjarne – “Save the Best For Us
  12. Netherlands: Stay Tuned – “Music
  13. San Marino: Idols SM – “Come noi
  14. Ukraine: Artem Kotenko – “Hear Me Now
  15. Portugal: Victoria Nicole – “Esperança
  16. Ireland – Enya Cox Dempsey – “Le Chéile
  17. Malta: Ramires Sciberras – “Stilla ċkejkna

The 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on November 16 in Madrid, Spain, following the country’s second-place finish last year and the refusal of the winning country, France, to host for the second year in a row. The slogan for this year’s contest is “Let’s Bloom!”, while Ruth LorenzoMarc Clotet and Melani Garcia will serve as this year’s hosts.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news!

Junior Eurovision 2024: Day One of the technical rehearsals at Caja Mágica!

As the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest draws near, the excitement is building. Young artists from seventeen countries have gathered in Madrid, preparing to perform live in front of millions of viewers from across Europe and beyond.

These talented artists have been working hard for months in anticipation of this moment, and they are now ready to “bloom” with half of them having completed their first technical rehearsals at Caja Mágica. Today, artists from the following nine countries took the stage of Caja Mágica:

  • Georgia
  • Cyprus
  • Italy
  • Albania
  • Ukraine
  • Estonia
  • Armenia
  • North Macedonia
  • Spain

The First Rehearsals

In line with the tradition of the adult Eurovision Song Contest, the first rehearsals were closed to the press. As a result, no journalists were allowed to watch the rehearsal sessions, and there were no official rehearsal clips shared by RTVE. This means that, for now, there is no audiovisual footage available to fans, but the official social media channels of Junior Eurovision have shared a few photos offering a sneak peek behind the scenes.

Georgia – Andria Putkaradze

Your first glimpse of Georgia! Andria Putkaradze had his First Rehearsal in Madrid today

Watch #JESC2024 on Saturday 16 November at 18:00 CET and vote for your favourites at jesc.tv! #LetsBloom

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Cyprus – Maria Pissarides

Pics as clear as ‘Crystal Waters’! Here’s what Maria Pissarides’ First Rehearsal looked like for Cyprus

Watch…

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

Italy – Simone Grande

It’s Italy’s ‘Pigiama Party’! Some snaps from Simone Grande’s First Rehearsal

Watch #JESC2024 on Saturday 16 November at 18:00 CET and vote for your favourites at jesc.tv! #LetsBloom

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Albania – Nikol Çabeli

Nikol Çabeli stepped onto the #JESC stage for her First Rehearsal today Here’s your preview of Albania

Watch…

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Ukraine – Artem Kotenko

It was Ukraine’s turn for a First Rehearsal in Madrid this afternoon Here’s a sneak peek of what Artem Kotenko has…

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Estonia – Annabelle

ANNABELLE has arrived in Madrid! The Estonian talent had her First Rehearsal today – here’s what it looked like …

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Armenia – Leo

Our ‘Cosmic Friend’ has touched down at the Caja Mágica Here’s what Leo’s First Rehearsal for Armenia looked like …

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

North Macedonia – Ana and Aleksej

Ana and Aleksej to the stage please! ‍♂️ ‍♀️ The delightful duo have just had their First Rehearsal for North…

Posted by Junior Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, November 10, 2024

 

Spain – Chloe DelaRosa

What’s next?

Tomorrow, the remaining eight countries will rehearse at the stage of Caja Mágica. After the First Rehearsals, the Second Rehearsals will follow. These rehearsals give the artists a final opportunity to perfect their acts before the Dress Rehearsals. Any last-minute changes to the performances can be made during this time.

It is expected that the voting recap video, which will be shown before the live show, will also be filmed during these second rehearsals.

On Friday, November 15, the two Dress Rehearsals will be held. The Dress Rehearsals are full run-throughs of the show from start to finish, including the performances, interval acts, and voting sequence.

Then and it is time for Dress Rehearsals. The First Dress Rehearsal will take place on Friday morning, while the Second Dress Rehearsal will take place in the evening. The Second Dress Rehearsal is particularly important as it is also the Jury Final. This is when the seventeen national juries will watch the full show and cast their votes, which will help determine the final outcome of the competition.

Moreover, on Friday the first phase of the Online Voting will commence and the half of the contest’s outcome will be determined.

Junior Eurovision 2024

Seventeen countries will take part in the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest:

  1. Italy: Simone Grande – “Pigiama Party
  2. Estonia: Annabelle – “Tänavad
  3. Albania: Nikol Çabeli – “Vallëzoj
  4. Armenia: Leo – “Cosmic Friend
  5. Cyprus: Maria Pissarides – “Crystal Waters
  6. France: Titouan – “Comme ci, comme ça
  7. North Macedonia: Ana and Aleksej – “Marathon
  8. Poland: Dominik Arim – “All Together
  9. Georgia: Andria Putkaradze – “To My Mom
  10. Spain: Chloe DelaRosa – “Como la Lola
  11. Germany: Bjarne – “Save the Best For Us
  12. Netherlands: Stay Tuned – “Music
  13. San Marino: Idols SM – “Come noi
  14. Ukraine: Artem Kotenko – “Hear Me Now
  15. Portugal: Victoria Nicole – “Esperança
  16. Ireland – Enya Cox Dempsey – “Le Chéile
  17. Malta: Ramires Sciberras – “Stilla ċkejkna

The 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on November 16 in Madrid, Spain, following the country’s second-place finish last year and the refusal of the winning country, France, to host for the second year in a row. The slogan for this year’s contest is “Let’s Bloom!”, while Ruth LorenzoMarc Clotet and Melani Garcia will serve as this year’s hosts.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news! 

Sanremo Festival: These are the names of the twenty-four participants of SanremoGiovani 2025!

The procedures for the Festival di Sanremo seem to be progressing. The 24 names of the SanremoGiovani 2025 participants have just been announced! The list of names was announced via the official Sanremo social media accounts.

Below you can see the list of official names:

 

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The show will be broadcast in a second zone on Rai2, RaiRadio2 and RaiPlay from 12 November.

The historic Sanremo is a very important music festival in Italy and through which new talents and trends in the Italian music industry are highlighted. SanremoGiovani is an important event for the Italian music scene, acting as a prelude to the Sanremo 2025 festival. The participation of young artists is expected to offer fresh ideas and musical proposals.

We are looking forward to this year’s selections by Sanremo’s 2025 organizers!

For more news about the competition stay tuned to Eurovision Fun!

Source: SanremoRai

 

Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2025 is postponed!

About a month ago, the Italian public broadcaster, announced that the 75th Festival di Sanremo will take place a week earlier than usual, from the 4th to the 8th of February at the Teatro Ariston. However, the latest announcement by the organizers comes to postpone the festival, a week later! Read more

The official announcement of the EBU regarding the publication of the Italian televotes!

In an official annoucement a while ago, EBU reported that the publication of the results from the Italian televoting during the broadcast of the second semi-final was in violation of the rules and that those results were incompelte.

“The European Broadcasting Union has investigated this matter with both RAI and its televoting partner and can confirm that the information was published in error. We can also confirm that the information was incomplete.

A valid vote was received from Italy as part of the results of the Semi-Final.

RAI have been informed that this was in breach of the rules of the Contest which state that the voting results may only be communicated after the event. The matter will be discussed further by the Contest’s Reference Group following the Contest.

We havr requested RAI to review their procedures to ensure that all rules and protocols are followed in order to protect the integrity of the voting.”

According to what was broadcast by RAI on the night of the semi-final the results shown were as per below:

12 points – Israel

10 points – The Netherlands

8 points – Albania

7 points – Georgia

6 points – Switzerland

5 points – Armenia

4 points – Greece

3 points – San Marino

2 βαθμοί – Denmark

1 βαθμός – Latvia

Israel was in the first place and by a wide margin, gathering around 40% of the total votes.

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Eurovision 2024: The viewers of the second semi-final in Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Iceland and Austria!

The second semi-final of Eurovision 2024 took place yesterday with ten more countries getting the ticket to the Grand Final of Saturday.

Read more

Norway: Italy wins the fourth show of Adresse Malmø!

NRK, the public broadcaster of Norway, broadcasts Adresse Malmø, a special show dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. Each week approximately eight songs will be reviewed with the judges rating the songs from one to twelve points. Read more

Käärijä and Mario Accampa will reveal the jury votes of Finland and Italy!

A few minutes ago, two more spokespersons, the representatives of each public broadcaster, who announce the voting of the jury of each country! Read more

Italy: Listen to the Eurovision-version of “La Noia” by Angelina Mango!

Angelina Mango is one of the favourites to win this year’s contest with her song “La Noia”, however, right after her win in Sanremo 2024, we knew that the song required some slight changes in order to take part in Eurovision, as its duration was longer than three minutes. Read more