The 60th edition of Portuguese national selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Festival Da Canção kicks off tonight with the first semi-final. The hosts of the tonight’s show will be Tânia Ribas de Oliveira and José Carlos Malato. Total of ten songs will be competing for the six places which take to the final. First five of them will be decided by a 50/50 combination of jury and audience votes while the last finalist will be decided solely by the televotes.

You can watch tonight’s show on RTP and of course follow it with us in our live-blog below! Make sure to let us know your thoughts and opinions, impressions of the performances, voting and winners as well as agreements/disagreements with our views in the chat