Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2011  Interviews with Danny (EMD) and Pernilla Andersson: Sweden's music industry is booming and one of the - if not the biggest music event of the year is the Melodifestivalen which is organised every year in various heats and ends in March with the Grand Final  on 12 March 2011 with ten songs out of which Televoters and Juries will be selecting the song of the year in Sweden. This song is used to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. Currently, there are many media events going on in Sweden and Lilian Brunell, our rowing reporter, has been at it again:

 

Interview with Danny (from EMD): Danny Saucedo will also be in the run for the ticket to Duesseldorf as he will be competing in the 2011 edition of Melodifestivalen. Danny is part of the boy band EMD who participated in Melodifestivalen Final in 2009 with the song "Baby Goodbye" reaching Number 3. Danny competes in Semi Final 1 of the Melodifestivalen 2011. His offering for the new season is called "In the Club". 

 

Interview with Pernilla Andersson:  Pernilla is the next contestant in Semi Final 1 of the Melodifestivalen 2011. Her entry is called "Desperados". Find out more about Pernilla Andersson by listening to the interview which Lilian did with her at a recent Melodifestivalen Press Conference in Stockholm.  

 

Interview with Marcin Mrozinski (Poland 2010): Marcin appeared at the recent staged Eurovision Club Germany's Annual Convention in Cologne, Germany. There he did some very impressive performances. The Team of Radio International had the big pleasure to meet Marcin again for an interview to see how life is treating him after Eurovision.

 

Eurovision meets South Africa - Interview with Sunette Bridges: Sunette Bridges is the daughter of the famous South African singer Bles Bridges who passed away ten years ago following a car accident. Bles was also known for covering Eurovision songs and recorded them in the Africaans language. Radio International is prowd to speak to Sunsette about the life and the music of her father Bles Bridges and of course there will be some of Eurovision covers on the show as well this week. This is a first session in a series where Radio International will be linking up with South Africa to bring you the Eurovision connection. 

QUIZ:  Courtesy of Sony Records in South Africa who are kindly donating two CDs of Bles Bridges to the first two right entries to the Quiz. All you have to do is to listen back to the first hour of the show to the interview and listen carefully to the two songs JP played during and at the end of the interview. Both songs are cover versions of Eurovision Winners performed by Bles Bridges. All you have to do is to email us the answer of what are the original two winning songs and Bles is singing. We want to know from you the Country, Year, Artist and Song please.

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Start of Heat 11: Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 announcing the start of HEAT 11 for the international juries to vote on the Face Book Page of the contest. On the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, you vote for your 10 favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the tenth hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Last week Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 10 and now HEAT 11 has started and is open to be voted on until Sunday evening.  Next week Radio International and Andy from the Euro Friends Song Contest will reveal the ten qualifiers of Heat 11 during the show. Join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.    

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: Germany. In view of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Germany, Radio International's four regular Eurovision Experts will be joining us in turn week by week to review all the German entries of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2010. Dermot Manning is back to continue with the review of the German entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 - 1994. 

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2010 - The Result: Radio International continues the support of this songwriters competition also in 2010. Austria virtually hosted this contest this year and visitors to the website of the OGAE Austria could cast their vote until 31 October 2010 to their favourite songs. The Voting Show is now available online here and shortly the overview table will be displayed here. Radio International will then be producing a show with the Top 15 of this year's Home Composed Song Contest. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Luke Fisher joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. Also check out the occasational appearance of Zoran Kovacic from Serbia on Radio International bringing us some Eurovision News in his style.

In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Quiz:  Scratch your heads and bite your nails at  our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send your answers via the website's CONTACTs form or via the msn-chat This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it   As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of last week's Quiz: Gerly Annok from Estonia. Congratulations yet again!

 

Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual convention.

 

Upcoming Fan Club Events: 

22 Jan - OGAE Germany Convention, Munic, Germany

Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done with the Eurovision performers can be heard by visiting our Eurovision section of this website or check out the Radio International goes.... part of the website. The 2010 Eurovision Interviews have not yet been displayed there. You can find them as part of the weekly editions of Radio International. You can go through the Show Archive to find interviews by using search. 

 

Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this week these requests will be added to the play list for the future shows. 

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