The 2021 Junior Eurovision Song Contest is taking place this Sunday in Paris, and the second day of rehearsals is in full swing at La Seine Musicale in Paris. After the Armenian color explosion, it was time for Serbia to rehearse their song…

The Czech national selection ESCZ is slowly coming to its end, as the voting finishes tonight, and the results will be revealed tomorrow already! A total of seven acts are competing to become Benny Cristo’s successor, and represent the…

The 2021 Junior Eurovision Song Contest is taking place this Sunday in Paris, and the second day of rehearsals is in full swing at La Seine Musicale in Paris. After Kazakhstan's Alinur and Beknur, it was the turn of Maléna from Armenia to…

Earlier today, Dutch head of delegation Tessa Winter and AVROTROS senior producer Anja Zegwaard ran a virtual press meet-and-greet with Dutch JESC 2021 Ayana, to discuss all things Junior Eurovision, Junior Songfestival...and Christmas!…

On a daily TV show on ERT, next year's Greek Eurovision entrant was announced by the 2021 entrant Stefania. ERT had previously announced a shortlist of five candidates, and it is Amanda Tenfjord who will be flying the flag for Greece in…

We're back from our lunch break at La Seine Musicale, and it's time for Kazakhstan to take the stage. It's the only all-male group of 2021, new friends Alinur and Beknur, with Ертегі әлемі. I'm not going to give too much away here,…

This morning's session ends with the only full-on group of 2021's Contest: Dajte Muzika, singing Green Forces for North Macedonia. I'll be honest, I expected heaset mics for this one, as the studio version, and the fact they are coming…

The submission period for entering songs for Croatia's DORA 2022 has ended three days ago, and the Croatian national broadcaster HRT has now confirmed that the interest for next year's edition of this Contest is at its highest since its…

From the cardboard boxes and cartoonish artwork of Anna Gjebrea and Albania, we move on to something completely different: Ukraine's Olena Usenko, with the self-penned Vazhil. This one is moody. Olena is all alone on stage and is not…

The third of this morning's first rehearsals comes from Albania, and Anna Gjebrea, for her performance of Stand By You, has thrown the kitchen sink at this one. And the entire classroom. And an Amazon warehouse. Yes, this one is…