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Experience the Eurovision Song Contest with Radio International
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Hightlights of the show  Eurovision Preview Events 2016 - Riga Eurovision Pre-Party and Eurovision in Concert - Live Interview with Rene Romkes: The
National Final Season 2016 is over and all the songs that are competing
at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden come May have
been selected. Various countries started to invite participating
countries to their Preview or Promo Events such as Eurovision in Concert
in Amsterdam on 09 April 2016, The London Preview Event on 17 April
2016 as well as the latest being added is Tel Aviv in Israel and for the
second time in a row the annual Eurovision Pre-Party in Riga, Latvia
which took place on Saturday 02 April 2016. JP of Radio International
was present at this and in collaboration with joinusoneurovision.com
interviewed all the artists that were invited. The first lot of
interviews will be broadcast on Radio International this week and more
to come within the next weeks. The next Promo event is Eurovision in
Concert this weekend and Rene Romkes who is part of the organising team
will be joining JP on the show this week to talk about this weekend's
event.
 Interview with Ira Losco (Malta 2002 & 2016): Back in 2002 Malta came second at he Eurovision Song Contest with Ira Losco and her entry "7th Wonder".
In 2014, together with the smiling doctor Gianluca Bezzina (Malta
2013), Ira Losco hosted the Maltese National Final. Then in January 2016
Ira Losco entered the Malta Eurovision Song Contest competing with two
songs out of which "Cameleon" made it to the Final and won it.
Shortly after, Maltese broadcaster pbs made use of its rule to change
the song which was publish on 13 March 2016, Now Malta will be
represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 by Ira Losco and the
song "Walk on Water" and will compete in Semi Final 1 on Tuesday,
10 May 2016. JP met Ira in Riga for an interview you can hear on this
week's edition of Radio International.
You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
- click here  Interview with Poli Genova (Bulgaria 2011 & 2016): Also the Bulgarian entrant is a repeat offender to the Eurovision Song Contest as Poli Genova already represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Na na'inat"
which failed to qualify for the Grand Final. In November 2015 Poli
Genova hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest from Sofia, Bulgaria
and shortly afterwards Bulgarian TV decided to send again Poli to the
Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "If love was a crime"
which competes in Semi Final 2 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 on
Thursday, 12 May 2016. JP chatted with Poli in Riga right after the
Press Conference of the event. You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
- click here  Interview with Hovi Star (Israel 2016): One of the most funniest representative Israel has sent into the Eurovision Song Contest is this year's hopeful Hovi Star who will be representing Israel with the song "Made of Stars"
which competes in Sem Final 2 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 on
Thursday, 12 May 2016. JP had the pleasure to chat with the young singer
at Riga's Eurovision Pre-Party 2016. Listen to the interview on this
week's edition of Radio International.
You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
- click here  Interview with Jüri Pootsmann (Estonia 2016): On of the mosy impressive voices of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is Juri Pootsmann
who won the nationa final in Estonia and with this the right to
represent his country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm,
Sweden with the song "Play". Juri was also part of the Eurovision
Pre-Partyin Riga, Latvia and gave an interview to Radio International
which you can hear on this week's edition of Radio International.
You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
- click here  Interview with Sanja Vucic ZAA (Serbia 2016): Representing Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is Sanja Vucic ZAA who will be performing the song "Goodbye (Shelter)"
competing in Semi Final 2 on Thursday, 12 May 2016. JP met the young
bubbly singer at the Eurovision Pre Party event in Riga, Latvia for an
interview with you can hear on this week's edition of Radio
International.
You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
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 Interview with Rykka (Switzerland 2016): Switzerland will be
represented by Rykka who won the Swiss National Final called "Die Grosse
Entscheidungsshow" and with this the right and the ticket to respresent
Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Semi Final 2 with
the song "The last of our kind". Also here JP met the young singer at
the Preview Event in Riga, Latvia for a chat and you can hear this
interview on this week's edition of Radio International.
You can also watch this interview on our YouTube Channel
- click here  Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision 2016 in Regions: For
the next few weeks the Eurovision Experts of Radio International will be
taking a look at the 2016 Eurovision entries per region and this week Dermot Manning will be staring with the Southern Eurovision countries that are competing at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2016. This week hear the songs from Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, FYRO Macedonia, Malta and San Marino. In addition, each week our correspondents
will be asked to tell us their personal favourite but also their tip
what could actually win the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Sweden will host the Eurovision
Song Contest 2016 in the Globen Arena of Stockholm next May with the
Grand Final on the 14 May 2016 and the the Semi Finals on 10 & 12
May 2016, respectively.
 Eurovision Song Contest News: Nathan Waddell joins
the team in the studio every week to bring you the news
and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest
such as the National Finals or if it is music releases of Eurovision
performers, special
concerts, gossip, etc Nathan will have it all for us during the weekly
edition of Radio International. He also takes a look at some statistics
such as viewing figures in the various countries and more.
Nathan is website editor with escxtra.com. In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com (amongst others.
 New Song Releases by Eurovision Artists: Radio
International is always keen to know how the careers of Eurovision
performers develop after their performance at the event. The show is in
collaboration with many Music Companies that supply Radio International
with the latest songs of their signed up artists to bring the muisc
closer to the fans. On a weekly basis Radio International receives songs
which are being featured on the show.
 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. But also all the National Final Details are being displayed
in the Calendar. Make sure you frequently check it out.
Upcoming Events - Highlights:
09 Apr 2016 (Sat) - The Netherlands/Amsterdam
Eurovision in Concert at Melkweg (Tickets on sale from 04 Jan)
12 Apr 2016 (Tue) - Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel Calling - Preview Party with Eurovision 2016 artists - details
22 Apr 2016 (Fri) - United Kingdom/London
Eurofest at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern
 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 or a dip into the
Eurovision Goodies Bag. 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. As for the quiz answers, you have two weeks time to crack the quiz
after Radio International was aired live. That gives the chance for the
listeners who were not able to join us live on Wednesdays to participate
in the quiz and the draw for the prize. Good Luck! Due to lack of time the draw of the quiz will be postponed to next week's edition of Radio International.
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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