Re: [OGAE INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTS’ BOARD] Dear all, please have a look at the seating map…
Re: TICKETS 2015 PURCHASE INFO by maiken » Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:05 pm
I regret to inform you that our seats were changed, and the changed have now been implemented in the seating map. There are no major sufferings tho, I had to split some of the bigger clubs, but otherwise the new seats are now better compared to the old ones. Please check that your seats are correct!
(The new seats are in block 75 – rows 00-01 – seats 105-120).
We can now reflect on the latest voting from one of our LATIN AMERICAN countries, this time from CHILE. We publish it first as general news and then Jeff will move it t0 the sub-page for Chile under OUR WORLD.
Morten Thomassen, president of OGAE Norway attended the Eurovision musical in Oslo, Norway last night and this picture shows him with Merethe Troan and Benedicte Adrian of Dollie de luxe. Love the suit Morten is wearing.
And now we can reveal the second of the 2015 Eurovision entries in Afrikaans. This time it is the turn of Switzerland. The cover, just like Cyprus, has been recorded by Karla Christene. The Afrikaans title is DIS NOU DIE TYD VIR MY (It is now the time for me).
In South Africa different radio stations have their own top 20 (some even a top 40). The charts of each radio station reflects of course their audience. This one is very AFRIKAANS orientated and if you look, all but one song (from Taylor Swift) is by SOUTH AFRICAN artists and of these 19 by South African artists, only ONE is in ENGLISH, the others are in Afrikaans. The English one is a EUROVISION song, Sweden’s 2003 entry GIVE ME YOUR LOVE. It was suppose to be covered in Afrikaans but the producers felt it could do better in English because of the lyrics.
The first of the 2015 songs have been covered in Afrikaans. It is Cyprus 2015 and a new female singer from Cape Town recorded it, Karla Christene. The title is WAT EK MOES DOEN (What I have to do)
Two years ago Georgia’s 2013 Eurovision entry WATERFALL was covered in Afrikaans by Karlien van Jaarsveld as UITKLOPHOU. Now there is another cover of this song. The group ROMANZ who started singing together in 2008 decided to break up as group and each of the 4 members are now busy with solo careers. Sony released a GREATEST HITS as a farewell CD. It is a double CD with 40 songs, 35 of them coming form their previous CD’s with 5 new songs, one of them WATERFALL in Afrikaans. It has new Afrikaans lyrics and is called WATERVAL which is the Afrikaans title of the original.
