Turizmin yaz sezonundaki gözde tatil merkezi Çeşme, 30 Haziran – 5 Temmuz tarihleri arasında 19. kez festival coşkusuyla yerli yabancı birçok müzisyene ev sahipliği yapacak. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Çeşme Belediyesi ve Ege Televizyonu ile Radyo Ege’nin işbirliğinde, Sun Express’in katkılarıyla gerçekleşecek festival 30 Haziran Pazartesi günü start alacak.
 “Çeşme Deniz Şenlikleri ve Uluslararası Çeşme Şarkı Yarışması”, birbirinden ilginç yüzme müsabakalarına, sergilere, kokteyllere, meydan konserlerine sahne olacak.Mojito Beach Club’ta 2 Temmuz’daki açılış kokteyli, Uğurhan Akdeniz Ajansın düzenleyeceği Şenay Akay, Şebnem Scheifer,Rus Gelin Tanya, Duygu Akdeniz gibi önde gelen modellerin podyuma çıkacakları defile ile renklenecek. Defilenin hemen ardından sahneyi İsveçli gurup Exposed alacak ve izleyenlere muhteşem bir şov sergileyecek. Meydan Konserlerinin hemen öncesinde “Ersin Show ve Süperstarz Dance Group” sahne alacak. Ünlü rapçi Ceza 4 Temmuz Cuma akşamı Çeşme Meydanı’nda sevenleriyle buluşacak. Saat 21.00 de başlayacak Ceza konseri halka açık olacak. 5 Temmuz Cumartesi akşamı 5 bin 500 kişilik Anfi Tiyatro’da gerçekleştirilecek uluslararası şarkı yarışmasıyla festival son bulacak. “Çeşme Deniz Şenlikleri ve Uluslararası Çeşme Şarkı Yarışması”nın final gecesinde, klarnetin sihirbazı olarak nitelendirilen Yunanlı müzisyen Vassilis Saleas ve Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması’nda Ukrayna’yı ‘Shady Lady’ şarkısıyla temsil edip ikinci olarak tüm dikkatleri üzerene çeken Ani Lorak sahne alacak. Şafak Karaman’nın sunumu, İzmirli sanatçı Bengü’nün hem sunumu hem de sahne şovuyla daha da renklenecek final gecesi eklenen sürprizlere sahne olacak. İsveç, İtalya, Slovakya, Hollanda, Fransa,Litvanya, Ukrayna Kırım Özerk Cumhuriyeti, Almanya, Yunanistan veTürkiye’nin gözde müzisyenleri ve şarkıcıları, birincilik için sahneye çıkacaklar. Vassilis Saleas kendisine eşlik edecek olan solist kardeşi Sarandis Saleas, Göknur ve dev orkestrası ile birlikte başta “Dimotika Instrumental” olmak üzere bir çok eseri, muhteşem doğaçlamaları, Grek yorumlarıyla kulakların pasını alırken, Ani Lorak ve ekibi sahne şovlarıyla hem gözlere hem de kulaklara hitap edecek. Türkiye’nin en büyük bölge televizyonu Ege TV de, yaklaşık 3.5 saatlik bir canlı yayın maratonu ile bu unutulmaz dakikaları yurtiçi ve yurtdışında milyonlarca izleyiciye ulaştıracak.

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Turizmin yaz sezonundaki gözde tatil merkezi Çeşme, 30 Haziran – 5 Temmuz tarihleri arasında 19. kez festival coşkusuyla yerli yabancı birçok müzisyene ev sahipliği yapacak. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Çeşme Belediyesi ve Ege Televizyonu ile Radyo Ege’nin işbirliğinde, Sun Express’in katkılarıyla gerçekleşecek festival 30 Haziran Pazartesi günü start alacak.

 “Çeşme Deniz Şenlikleri ve Uluslararası Çeşme Şarkı Yarışması”, birbirinden ilginç yüzme müsabakalarına, sergilere, kokteyllere, meydan konserlerine sahne olacak.Mojito Beach Club’ta 2 Temmuz’daki açılış kokteyli, Uğurhan Akdeniz Ajansın düzenleyeceği Şenay Akay, Şebnem Scheifer,Rus Gelin Tanya, Duygu Akdeniz gibi önde gelen modellerin podyuma çıkacakları defile ile renklenecek. Defilenin hemen ardından sahneyi İsveçli gurup Exposed alacak ve izleyenlere muhteşem bir şov sergileyecek. Meydan Konserlerinin hemen öncesinde “Ersin Show ve Süperstarz Dance Group” sahne alacak. Ünlü rapçi Ceza 4 Temmuz Cuma akşamı Çeşme Meydanı’nda sevenleriyle buluşacak. Saat 21.00 de başlayacak Ceza konseri halka açık olacak. 5 Temmuz Cumartesi akşamı 5 bin 500 kişilik Anfi Tiyatro’da gerçekleştirilecek uluslararası şarkı yarışmasıyla festival son bulacak. “Çeşme Deniz Şenlikleri ve Uluslararası Çeşme Şarkı Yarışması”nın final gecesinde, klarnetin sihirbazı olarak nitelendirilen Yunanlı müzisyen Vassilis Saleas ve Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması’nda Ukrayna’yı ‘Shady Lady’ şarkısıyla temsil edip ikinci olarak tüm dikkatleri üzerene çeken Ani Lorak sahne alacak. Şafak Karaman’nın sunumu, İzmirli sanatçı Bengü’nün hem sunumu hem de sahne şovuyla daha da renklenecek final gecesi eklenen sürprizlere sahne olacak. İsveç, İtalya, Slovakya, Hollanda, Fransa,Litvanya, Ukrayna Kırım Özerk Cumhuriyeti, Almanya, Yunanistan veTürkiye’nin gözde müzisyenleri ve şarkıcıları, birincilik için sahneye çıkacaklar. Vassilis Saleas kendisine eşlik edecek olan solist kardeşi Sarandis Saleas, Göknur ve dev orkestrası ile birlikte başta “Dimotika Instrumental” olmak üzere bir çok eseri, muhteşem doğaçlamaları, Grek yorumlarıyla kulakların pasını alırken, Ani Lorak ve ekibi sahne şovlarıyla hem gözlere hem de kulaklara hitap edecek. Türkiye’nin en büyük bölge televizyonu Ege TV de, yaklaşık 3.5 saatlik bir canlı yayın maratonu ile bu unutulmaz dakikaları yurtiçi ve yurtdışında milyonlarca izleyiciye ulaştıracak.

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Eurovision için düşünülen isimlerden Hande Yener’e İtalya’nın ünlü modacısı Frankie Morello 22 Haziran’da Milano’da düzenlenecek defilesinin after party’si için  davetiye gönderdi. Yener defileden sonra düzenlenecek partiye katılacak ve yeni albümü ‘Hipnoz’un şarkılarını seslendirecek. Böyle bir davet aldığı için çok mutlu olan Hande Yener, “Bir Türk sanatçısı olarak İtalyan’ları hipnoz etmeye gidiyorum” dedi. Yener, ünlü modacı Morello’nun kendisi için seçtiği kostümle sahneye çıkacak.

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There will be 12 artists competing in three semi-finals on the 9th, 16th and 23rd January. The head of YLE Entertainment, Ms Tuire Lindström is currently concentrate on the selection process  for the competing artists.  They will range from male and female solo singers to bands. The full artist line-up will be announced in September. Ms. Lindström also promises some surprises. “We are very happy with our Eurovision project this year with Teräsbetoni making it to the final in Belgrade, so we will use the same process to select out next entry”, she concludes.

From every semi-final two artists be voted  by the public to qualify directly to the final which will be held on the 31 January. Just like last year, there will be a second chance vote to start off the final between the 6 artists who did not make it directly to the final taking the number of participants in the final to 8. The final will again be in two parts and the winner will be decided by a televote and SMS-vote. There is also a mention of a compilation CD containing from all the entries planned for a January release.

The host city and the venue have not been announced. YLE TV entertainment and TV channel 2 who broascast  the national selection shows and the Eurovision Song Contest in Finland reside in the city of Tampere.  The semi-finals have in the past few years been transmitted “as live” from the Tohloppi TV centre studios in Tampere.

The executive producer for the Finnish national final this year will be Merete Manninen and the producer will be Matti Grönberg.

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 Maria Haukaas Storeng’s Eurovision 2008 entry, Hold on, Be strong will be soon released in Sweden following the song’s success in the country’s charts.

Hold on be strong is currently at #17 in the Swedish singles’ chart, with Sebastien Tellier being the only Eurovision entry ahead of her at #15. It has now been confirmed to esctoday.com that because of Maria’s chart success, her album will be released in Sweden by Universal Music.

The release date has not been set yet, but it is higly likely that it will be before Maria’s performance at Allsång På Skansen on 8th July.

Allsång På Skansen

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After playing the part of Maria in The Sound of Music for almost two years, Anabela started recently in the role of Mary Magdalene in the rock opera which can be seen at Teatro Politeama in Lisbon. Anabela keeps on adding important roles to her career in the area of musical plays.

The plot was written by Tim Rice and the music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It tells the story of the last weeks of Jesus’ life and his relation with Judas. Presented for the first time in 1970, in New York, the play has been adapted in over two dozen countries. Responsible for the adaptation in  Portuguese is Filipe La Féria who has had hit after hit with his adaptations and original musicals. Anabela has been working with him for almost a decade now.

Anabela sung for Portugal back in 1993, in Milstreet, the song A cidade (até ser dia) and ranked 10th place overall.

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Helena Paparizou and Sakis Rouvas were voted as Artist of the year and Best male artist respectively by the Greek fans in the 2008 Mad Video Music Awards. Ukrainian Eurovision 2008 runner up, Ani Lorak was also present to present one of the awards and ..talk about Sakis.

With 120.000 votes, Helena Paparizou, winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, was the public’s choice for the VMA Artist of the year award. “This category excites and scares me as there are many great artists. I promise I will work hard to become a better person and artist. Thank you very much!” Helena said.

Betty and Mathilde Maggira, the Greek commentators in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest were the ones to present Sakis Rouvas with his award of Best male artist of the year. Both ladies, dressed as brides, called Sakis on stage who accepted the Award saying appropriately “I do!”. Sakis Rouvas, who will soon become a father for the first time, stated that he feels the particular awars is very important as it does not reflect the success of a video clip for example, but his overall work during the year: “I feel you support and love me”, Sakis told the audience.

Ani Lorak also had something to say about Sakis. The Ukrainian shady Lady was present at the VMA’s to Bulgaria’s Best Video clip. She performed the chorus of her Eurovision entry and when asked whether she liked Greek men and Sakis Rouvas she said “Oh yes! They are very passionate!” As for Sakis, Ani said that he is a great star and she has no words to describe him.

Helena Paparizou also won the award for Best Pop video clip for her video of the song To fili tis zois. Helena thanked her fans telling them that ” If it weren’t for you, I would not have accomplished any of the things I have done!” and she went on to thank her team with a special mention to Fokas Evangelinos, known to Eurofans for choreographing Greece’s entries in 2004 and 2005and Ukraine 2008 to name a few as well as being the artistic director of Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens.

Michalis Chatzigiannis (Cyprus 1998) won the Best duet award for his collaboration with Despoina Olymbiou.

The show will be broadcast on Alpha TV on Monday 23rd June at 21.00 and on Mad TV on 29th June. You can read more here. (In Greek)

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A new committee has been formed by the Turkish Parliament to propose ways for the protection and development of the Turkish language. One of the issues the committee will be looking at is the language in which the country’s representatives will be singing in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Turkish Parliament is currently working on the development of a new educational system and new legislation to protect and develop the country’s language against degeneration. A Parliamentary Reasearch Commission was formed to determine measures which are necessary for this.

One of the issues the commission mentioned is that Turkey should compete with Turkish lyrics in the Eurovision Song Contest. The final proposal has not been submitted  yet and it will be up to the Turkish Parliament to decide whether this rule will be included in the project.

Turkey competed 3 times entirely  in English. In 2003, Sertab won the Eurovision Song Contest with Everyway that I can, in 2004, Athena came 4th with For real and in 2007 Kenan Doğulu came 4th again with Shake it up şekerim. Turkey also competed 4 times in Turkish and English. The country’s first top 3 position came with Dinle  in 1997 . That was the most successful Turkish entry with Turkish lyrics besides 2008, Deli ( 7th) and 1986,  Halley(9th).

A very special thank you to  Hakan Yalcinkaya for the submission of the article.z

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This Wednesday June 18th, there will also be the Eurovision Quiz where fans and listeners have the chance to win some Eurovision goodies. On offer this week is a DVD of Elnur & Samir who represented Azerbaijan this year at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Another special prize is a copy of the open air concert “Legends and Sensation of Eurovision” which took place on the 16th of May 2008 in Belgrade with the participation of Ruslana, Dana International, Maria Serifovic, Zeljko Joksimovic and Elnur & Samir from Azerbaijan.

Show time: 20:00 CET to 23:00 CET.

Radio International is glad to play your Eurovision music requests, just contact them through their website here telling them who you are, where you are listening from and the song you would like to hear, and let them know that your listening through esctoday.com.

Then the hightlight of the show is in their third hour at 22:00 CET when they will air interviews with Maria Haukaas Storeng representing Norway this year, Euroband from Iceland and a special treat - The King of Russian Pop: Philipp Kirkorov, the force behind Ukraine’s “Shady Lady.”

A Live Radio Player will appear on this article just before show time and throughout the show’s duration at 20:00 to 23:00 CET on Wednesday June 18th, so check out this article close to show time to listen in.

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Ani Lorak, the Ukrainian star and runner-up of the 2008 Eurovisionb Song Contest is in Athens for the annual Mad Video Music Awards.

Ani Lorak will be one of the surprise guests in this year’s Mad Video Music Awards which will take place tonight at 20.00 CET in Athens. Ani will present one of the lucky winners with their award.

Many Eurostars are nominated this year as well for their work in 2007 and 2008. Helena Paparizou (2005), Sakis Rouvas (2004), Michalis Chatzigiannis (Cyprus 1998) are nominated in various categories, as well as many Eurovision hopefuls such as Tamta (NF 07), Peggy Zina (NF 2002) and Kostas Martakis (NF 2008) who will perform a duet with Bulgarian Desislava.

More information on the 2008 Mad Awards can be found here (in Greek).  Live streaming is available only for Greek readers, through an sms to a particular telephone company who sponsors the event.

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Both of them are well-known faces to Polish people. Marcin has worked as an actor, gaining fame with productions such as M jak milosc and the film Stara basn - kiedy slonce bylo bogiem. Marcin has also taken part in the dance show Taniec z gwiazdami, aired on TVN channel where finished 3rd in couple with Edyta Herbus, his partner at this year’s Eurovision Dance Contest. They came 3rd in the competition. Then, Marcin crossed the boundary and participated at the Ukrainian Dancing with the Stars 3, becoming the winner.

Edyta has appeared on TV before as well. She is a professional dancer and participated twice at Polish Dancing with the Stars, placing 3rd. Other Edyta’s jobs on television are actress at series Na Wspolnej and competitor at the singing programme Jak oni spiewaja?

Performance of the couple is available here.

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Winners of national selection Dancing stars for Europe, Dorian Steidl and Nicole Kuntner, will represent Austria at the forthcoming Eurovision Dance Contest, this coming September 6th in Glasgow.

With a mix of foxtrot, jive and quickstep and three changes of costumes, dancers Dorian Steidl and Nicole Kunter won the Austrian national final for Eurovision Dance Contest and will therefore represent their country in Glasgow on September 6th.

Dorian Steidl is already a popular face with Austrians. He appeared in the comedy series DeLuca, aired on the public channel ORF. Since November 1999, every Saturday he presents ORF’s Gameshow. Later in 2001, he became host of the show Romy gala. Besides that, he continued working at Radio Steiermark. Dorian enjoys a strong education in music (he learned classic guitar at the Conservatory of Graz for eight years) and Economics (graduate in Economic Management at Karl Franzens University).

Nicole enjoys a long-running dancing career. She started dancing in 1992 and has already appeared on ORF’s dance show Dancing stars, 2nd and 3rd seasons, placing 8th and 7th respectively.

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After Finland’s win last year with Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen, the Nordic country will try to repeat victory on September 6th in Glasgow with Maria Lund and Mikko Ahti, winning couple of Tanssii tähtien kanssa (Dances with stars) competition.

Maria Lund will not be strange to the Eurovision world, since her mother, Tamara Lund, participated at the Finnish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest Euroviisut back in the 1960s. Maria also has participated in several musical theatre plays such as West side story, Madamme Butterfly or My fair lady, as well as recorded two jazz music albums.

Mikko Ahti is a professional dancer. He has competed at several dance contests representing Finland. He used to dance together with Carina Riikonen, but the couple ended in 2003.

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Vânia was one of the special guests at the celebrations of the Day of Portugal. During the afternoon, RTP put up a show and Vania had the opportunity to sing twice and be interviewed.

The 10th of June is the Day of Portugal and every year the celebrations take place at different city in the country chosen by the President. In 2008, the city of Viana do Castelo, in the North of Portugal, was where the festivities took place. During the morning there was a military parade and in the afternoon the Portuguese national broadcaster put upa four-hour-long special show.

In this show, Vânia performed her entry Senhora do Mar and closed the show with a fado from Mariza Fado, meu Fado. There were several hundred people watching the show and Vânia was warmly received by the audience. Everybody wanted to have an autograph or to take a photo with her. She was congratulated many times on her performanmce at the Eurovision Songcontest.

On Wednesday, Vânia participated in the ”Pateo Alfacinha” morning show  on RTP. This show marked the celebration of Saint Anthony’s Festivities in the Portuguese capital. On the same day she was a special guest in the festivities at the city of Famalicão. She was honoured by her hometown of Funchal for her contribution to music and the promotion of Madeira Island in Portugal and around Europe.

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Creu Rosell, Head of Delegation of Andorra, told partner site eurovision-spain.com that the public broadcaster RTVA has not decided whether the Principality will participate or not at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Russia.

Andorran Eurovision plans are now in stand-by and will remain like this until September, when RTVA is expected to announce Andorra’s involvement or withdrawal from Eurovision 2009.

Since Andorra joined Eurovision Song Contest back in 2004, the country has never been able to make it to the final. Their best result came in 2007, when Anonymous placed 12th in the semifinal. This year, despite the ambitious plans and big promotion that Gisela enjoyed across Europe, Andorra could not either manage to qualify for the final.

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The Swedish born TV presenter and her third husband Brian Monet named their son Malcolm.

“I’m delighted and hope my family is now complete.”

Malcolm came into the world last Saturday night, weighing in at 10Ibs. Ulrika already has another son, Cameron, 13 and daughters Bo, 7, and Martha, 4 – all by different fathers.

Congratulations Ulrika!

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Ronnie Lans has worked with Swedish Idol and various other huge live television galas and tv-shows for many years.

There are rumours about changes for Melodifestivalen 2009. One possibility is that the final will be moved from the Globen in Stockholm to Malmö.

With the selection of a new project manager with background from Swedish TV4 and the Swedish Idol - it is apparent that Swedish Television tries to give Melodifestivalen a new boost and direction.

That might be needed after Charlotte Perrelli’s dissapointing 18th place at Eurovision 2008 held in  Belgrade last month.

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Dustin the Turkey who represented Ireland at the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, crashed out of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest at the semi-final stage. Now he appears on posters with the slogan: “They didn’t vote for us. Get them back. Vote ‘No’ to Lisbon.”

The glove puppet’s song Irelande Douze Pointe received too few points from Europeans in the Belgrade contest. ‘No’ campaigners say that result last month should be avenged by rejection of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty.

Ireland is the only member state to hold a referendum on the treaty and the country has seen a frenzied poster campaign from both sides.

The turkey joins the already widespread ‘No’ posters that feature three monkeys with the slogan: “The new EU won’t see you, won’t hear you, won’t speak for you.”

Dustin’s name has surfaced a number of times in the campaign, with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, who is also advocating a ‘No’ vote, suggesting that the turkey could have done a better job representing Ireland’s national interests in negotiations over the treaty.

Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Cowen has accused groups opposed to the treaty of spreading misinformation. The two sides are locked in a tight contest, with many voters still undecided on the crucial vote.

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Deputies have addressed the Governor Valentina Matvienko with the request to reject the offer about St. Petersburg hosting the popular international contest next year. The authors of the request apprehend that holding the Eurovision festival will be conducive to use of drugs.

According to opinion of experts the Western music styles that are promoted at Eurovision demoralize our youth and provoke drug abuse - the communication reads.

According to information of law enforcement agencies, in the contest venues in various countries the amount of imported narcotics goes up three times. Foreign guests who come to the contest are often reputed as drug addicts and have police records the initiators of the report point out.

Instead of Eurovision they suggest holding the festival of modern Orthodox spiritual song Neva Cupolas in Saint Petersburg.

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