LIVE: Festival da Canção 2023 – Semi-Final 1

By Joe Bleasdale Last updated Feb 25, 2023

Good evening, and welcome to ESCBubble’s coverage of the first semi-final of Festival da Canção 2023!

Over the next three and a half hours, the first ten songs will compete for one of six places in the Grand Final on 11th March. The show will be broadcast live from a purpose-built studio at RTP in Lisbon, and will be hosted by Tânia Ribas de Oliveira, José Carlos Malato and Inês Lopes Gonçalves. Five songs will be selected by a 50/50 jury-televote system, and a sixth song will go through as a wildcard decided by the public alone.

Follow the show live between 22:00 and 01:30 CET HERE!

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I'm Joe. I was born in Copenhagen, grew up in London, speak French and Spanish and have been a near-lifelong fan of Eurovision.

I accidentally stumbled across Eurovision after staying up past my bedtime in 2005, then got hooked in 2009, discovered semi-finals in 2011, then national finals in 2016, and now, it's my favourite sport (you can bet on it, after all). I'm also a newly-huge fan of Sanremo, which means I've inadvertantly learned Italian given about 80% of my playlists are made up of those artists.

My all-time favourite Eurovision songs are Sergio Dalma's "Bailar pegados" (Spain 1991) and Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" (Finland 2006).

You can find me at @SirBleasdale on the socials (Instagram / Twitter), and at www.joebleasdale.com.

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