The First National Final before Eurovision Song Contest 2015 will start tonight at 20:15 CET as Macedonian audience and international jury will pick their entry to Vienna. Skopski Festival hosted by Vasil Zafricev in Metropolis Arena in Skopje is organised by national broadcaster MKRTV. Today 20 candidates will sing 20 songs in native language with live orchestra. Audience and international jury (50/50) will decide who should be new Macedonian Eurovision entry. Special guests for tonight’s show will be Kaliopi (ESC 2012) and Karolina Goceva (ESC 2002 and 2007).
As we don’t know their songs yet, we can predict some favorities only by popularity. Among candidates we can find two previous Eurostars – Tamara Todevska (ESC 2008) and Vlatko Ilievski (ESC 2011), some NF veterans (i.e. Risto Samardziev – he participated in Skopje Fest 5 times already), winner of “X-Factor Adria” – Daniel Kajmakovski, JESC entrant from 2003 – Viktorija Loba and Eurovision backing vocals (Dimiatar Andonovski in 2013, Nina Janeva in 2012). Full list of candidates in running order can be found below (click name to check our interviews with those participants).
- Lena Zatkoska – Alo
- Tanja Carovska – Ako mi se vratis
- Danijel Kajmakovski – Esenski lisja
- Vera Jankovik – Se plasham
- Risto Samardziev & Vlatko Ilievski – Sever-jug
- Evgenija Cancalova – Da ne te sakam
- Aleksandra Mihova – Srce cuva spomeni
- Lidija Kocovska & Marjan Stojanovski – Sonce niz oblaci
- Joce Panov – Ni lj od ljubovta
- Goran Naumovski & Sanja Kerkez – Mig bez tebe
- Aleksandar Tarabunov & Toni Mihajlovski – Marija
- Aleksandra Janeva – Vo tvojot svet
- Miyatta – Zaljuben
- Tamara Todevska – Brod sto tone
- Sanja Gjosevska – Sakam da letam
- Nade Talevska – Znam
- Viktorija Loba – Edna edinstvena
- Verica Pandilovska – Samo za tebe
- Nina Janeva – Bluz za…
- Dimitar Andonovski – Se shto ti vetiv
Skopski Festival 2014 will start at 20:15 and finished at 23:00 (CET) and will be aired by MRT 1 and MRT Sat. There are few options to follow show online. Official stream of MKRTV is available HERE, and we can recommend you also to use On.net.mk (provided by Zulu.mk) or TVstanici.net
