Eurovision meets South Africa - Interview with Jasmyn Lombard: To continue our series of interviews with South African artists who also cover songs of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Africaans language. This week the Team of Radio International is honoured to have Jasmyn Lombard as guest on the show joining us live from South Africa to talk about herself, her music, her career. and what is her link to the Eurovision Song Contest.  Listeners are encouraged to send in their questions to Jasmyn during the interview. To find out more about her, here is a link to Jasmyn Lombard's Website - click here. Listen carefully to this interview as there are a couple of Quiz Questions where you can win something by sending in the right answers to CONTACT. 

 

The two Quiz Questions to win a copy of Jasmyn's album - there are two to be given away - are as follows:

1. 

Name the album of Jasmyn Lombaard. (Little hint - go to the Play List of the show:) )

2. 
During the interview Jasmyn talks about the two covers of Eurovision songs she sings in the Afrikaans language. Name the two songs performed by the original artists on the Eurovision stage. We want to know the artists, titles, country and year, please.

Good Luck

 

Please note that during the interview Radio International was joined by Eurovision Royalty - a Eurovision Winner. Listen to the show to find out. 

 

OGAE Germany's annual convention - Interview with the Organiser: OGAE Germany have announced their annual convention to take place on Saturday, 22 January 2011 in Munich, Germany in Wirtshaus zum Isartal, with the participation of four Eurovision performers including one winner: Niamh Kavanagh who won in 1993 for Ireland with "In your eyes" and she also represented Ireland at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with "It's for you". Also on the guest list is Josh Dubovie who represented the United Kingdom in 2010 with the song "That sounds good to me", Jalisse who was the last Italian entry in 1997 with "Fiumi di Parole" and last but not least Marty Brem who represented Austria in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest as part of Blue Danube with the song "Du bist Musik" and as a soloist in 1981with "Wenn DU da bist". Already this week Radio International is joined by Head of Public Relations:  Frank Albers who will be telling us all about this event. For more details on Germany's OGAE go to the website.  

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Start Voting Now, the Quarterfinals: Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest are in search for the ultimate Eurovision song. Over the past few month there were 12 Heats in which fans voted for their favourite  Eurovision entry.  The over 1100 Eurovision Song Contest entries have been narrowed down to a bit over 100 which will now compete in the Quarterfinals.  You can actively be part of the international jury by contacting Andy Simon who is the prime organiser of this event. You also can contact Andy on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member of this Facebook group in order to join the voting or consult the brand new website. 

 

The Three Mysterious Eurovision Performers - Quiz with Chris Poppe:  There was no national final last weekend to select their countries entry to the Eurovision Song Contest which gives the opportunity to Chris Poppe to get your brain cells going when he runs his popular quiz. Chris has wrapped in verbal and musical clues three Eurovision Song Contest performers for the listeners to guess. Of course, you can win something in taking part in this during the show and tell us as soon as you know who Chris has wrapped in his clues about the artist(s). For those of you who could not listen to the live show - the Quiz is still open until next week Tuesday midnight (18 Jan 2011). To win a DVD copy of  "50 years of Eurovision" hosted by Terry Wogan or something from the Eurovision Goodiesbag just let us know the answer who Chris wrapped up in the clues. Three artists = three prices!

 

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 As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of the last Quiz: Michael Nagelkerke from Maastricht, The Netherlands. Congratulations!

 

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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