Eurovision recap (25)

Today with news from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Slovenia, Macedonia, Finland, the Netherlands and Portugal

Netherlands – The 3Js, the Dutch representatives at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will probably sing their entry “Je vecht nooit alleen” (I don’t fight alone”) in its English version.

Armenia - Gohar Gasparyan,the Armenian Head of Delegation has told OGAE Armenia that the Armenian national final, originally scheduled for February 19th might be postponed. The 4 entries that the internally selected artist Emmy will perform in the national final will be disclosed on February 10.

Azerbaijan – Aaand it has happened again: Azerbaijan’s national broadcaster IctimaiTV has announced a change of the date for the national final. The Azeri entry will be chosen out of 5 competitors on February 11. Let’s hope this will be the final change of the selection process in the Caucasian country.

Finland - The line-up of the final of “Euroviisut 2011″, the Finnish national selection for Eurovision, has been revealed by YLE:

1. Eveliina Määttä – Dancing in the dark
2. Sami Hintsanen – Täältä maailmaan
3. Milana Misic – Sydämeni kaksi maata
4. Paradise Oskar – Da da dam
5. Cardiant – Rapture in time
6. Johanna Iivanainen – Luojani mun
7. Father McKenzie – Good enough
8. Marko Maunuksela – Synkän maan tango
9. Saara Aalto – Blessed with love
10. Stala & So – Pamela

The national final will be held in Turku on February 12.

Portugal - The Portuguese national broadcaster has revealed the running order of the Festival da Canção 2011. The Portuguese national final will be held on March 5 with this line-up:

1. Sete Saias – Embalo do coração
2. Carla Moreno – Sobrevivo
3. Nuno Norte – São os barcos de Lisboa
4. Rui Andrade – Em nome do amor
5. Henrique Feist – Quase a voar
6. Wanda Stuart – Chegar à tua voz
7. Tânia Tavares – Se esse dia chegar
8. Inês Bernardo – Deixa o meu lugar
9. Filipa Ruas – Tensão
10. Homens da Luta – Luta é alegria
11. Axel – Boom boom yeah
12. Ricardo Sousa – O mar, o vento e as estrelas

Slovenia – The Slovene national broadcaster has also revealed the running order for their national final. The selection format has been changed to an X-Factor like show. The national final will be held on February 27. This is the line-up:

1. Rock Partyzani
2. Tabu
3. Nina Pušlar
4. Maja Keuc
5. Feliks Langus
6. Leeloojamais
7. April
8. Sylvain, Mike Vale feat. Hannah Mancini
9. Time to Time
10. Omar Naber

Lithuania - The Lithuanian selection process will kick off this Saturday, February 5. The running order of the first semi-final has now been disclosed:

Click on the titles to listen to the songs:

1. Mino – Don’t go
2. Aurelija Slavinskaite – The end
3. Mezzo Tronic – I mean it
4. Laura Jaraite – City of steel
5. Neferite – 3 wishes
6. The Independent – 7th bus
7. Gintare Korsakaite - Atmerk akis
8. Dovydas Mašcinskas – Dirty Avenue
9. Monika – Days go by
10. Martynas Beinaris – Tomorrow and after
11. Urte Šilagalyte – Candy baby
12. Sasha Song – The slogan of our nation
13. Agnieška – Her name is May
14. Ramunas Difartas – Before you go

FYR Macedonia – There has been a change in the line-up for the Macedonian national final. Due to unknown reasons the songwriters of the song “Neka e so pomin” , Ljupco Mirkovski, Ognen Nedelkovski and the performers “Dule i Koki” have withdrawn from the competition and have been replaced with the first of the non-qualifying entries. Thus Jovan Vasilevski will get another chance to represent his country with the self-penned song “Posledna pesna” to be performed by “Amir Ibrahimovski And Art Sound”

Source= national broadcaster, running orders from ESCtoday

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