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CHRIS HARPER – PIANST – COVERING ABBA

Yesterday Cole and I ran into Chris Harper, a South African pianist at the Cresta shopping centre. He was sitting behind his piano in the mall playing amongst others several ABBA songs. Chris has already released at least 4 CD’s with his music and on each of the 4 CD’s you will find an ABBA song. From memory, I recall the following ABBA songs spread over the 4 CD’s
– Mamma mia
– Chiquitita
– Fernando
– I have a dream
– Money money money
– Dancing queen
– Supertrouper
– Hasta manana
– Andante andante
– The name of the game
I suggested to Chris to try and consolidate his Abba covers onto one compilation CD so that ABBA fans, who are into piano music, could get hold of such a CD.
ESC Covers is having a competition where you can win a DVD of Chris which do feature some of the Abba covers by entering our competition. Write to roy@esccovers.com and all you have to do is suggest what EUROVISION song (other than ABBA) he should consider covering on a forthcoming CD. You have about 2-3 weeks to enter seeing that it is now the holiday season.

NEW SISTER WEBSITE

ESC Covers is pleased to announce that as of today, the website www.escpedia will become a sister website to ESC Covers.

Both websites were in Valletta for the 2016 Junior Eurovision and we got on very well.

Both websites are based in the Southern Hemisphere,  ESC Covers in South Africa and ESCpedia in Brazil. Both are based in countries not taking part in Eurovision and both are run by passionate fans of the contest. ESC Covers report in English and ESCpedia in Portuguese so we are not taking fans away from each other, and rather compliment each other.

We plan various joint projects in the run up to Kyiv 2017.

So a big welcome to Fabiana and her team from us at ESC Covers.