Malta: Ela & her dancers from Kinetic Dance Academy shine in Minsk

Ela & dancers from Kinetic Dance Academy
Ela & dancers from Kinetic Dance Academy

Ela will sing Marchin’ On for Malta at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Today Ela and her team of dancers shined on stage. Ela gave an awesome vocal performance and her dancers performed to a great choreography.

Ela and the dancers are charming and very bubbly. Ela is very relaxed and having fun. She has a powerful voice and performs very confidently.

Let us give a special mention to the team from the Kinetic Dance Academy – Giulia Schembri, Solei Grixti, Luca Attard, Kylie Galea. All charming and talented personalities with great energy and talent.

Source: ESC Covers

2018 Junior Eurovision running order

2018 Junior Eurovision logo
2018 Junior Eurovision logo

The running order of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest has been made. The opening and closing country and Belarus position was made at the opening party on Monday.

  1. UKRAINE
  2. PORTUGAL
  3. KAZAKHSTAN
  4. ALBANIA
  5. RUSSIA
  6. THE NETHERLANDS
  7. AZERBAIJAN
  8. BELARUS
  9. IRELAND
  10. SERBIA
  11. ITALY
  12. AUSTRALIA
  13. GEORGIA
  14. ISRAEL
  15. FRANCE
  16. FYR MACEDONIA
  17. ARMENIA
  18. WALES
  19. MALTA
  20. POLAND

Light Up: First set of rehearsals at 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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The first set of rehearsals took place in Minsk, Belarus for the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Today there were rehearsals for –

ARMENIA – L.E.V.O.N is alone on stage and wearing green and he has his trumpet. Lively.

AUSTRALIA – Powerful vocals by the talented and beautiful Jael.

AZERBAIJAN – charming Fidan is sitting on a box and joined by four girl dancers. Good upbeat show.

ISRAEL – a little bit dull. Noam is alone on stage and the overall image is a little dark.

FRANCE – upbeat and happy show from Angelina. She has a boy and girl dancers on stage and there is ice cream.

FYR MACEDONIA – very mature and ethnic type performance from Marija.

GEORGIA – Tamar is alone on stage and begins laying on the floor. She is confident and has strong vocals. There is a big screen.

IRELAND – Bright and colourful stage. Lively performance by Taylor and his two girl dancers.

ALBANIA – Efi gives a cute and bubbly performance. In the background is a drawing of what looks like a Barbie Efi with a microphone.

BELARUS – Was not able to view this performance

Masha Zhilina performs ‘Welcome To My Belarus’ at JESC Opening Party

Masha Zhilina performed her popular song Welcome To My Belarus at the Opening Party of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Welcome To My Belarus was the runner up song in the Belarussian national final for JESC. It is an anthem of a song and Masha has a big stage personality.

You can see Masha perform Welcome To My Belarus below.

Source: ESC Covers

 

Alekseev with special guest Ani Lorak in concert in Minsk

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Alekseev gave a concert in Minsk at the Palace of Republic. His special guest was Ani Lorak, who represented Ukraine at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with Shady Lady.

Alekseev and represented Belarus at the Eurovision in Lisbon earlier this year. In the concert he sang the Russian version of his entry Forever.

Armenia: L.E.V.O.N releases official video clip of ‘L.E.V.O.N’

L.E.V.O.N
L.E.V.O.N

L.E.V.O.N will next week represent Armenia at the 2018 Junior Euovision Song Contest with his self titled song L.E.V.O.N.

The official video clip for L.E.V.O.N has been released. It features his fellow contestants from the Depi Mankakan Evratesil competition.

Check out the video clip for L.E.V.O.N below.

Source: ESC Covers; eurovoix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-XmPxfREo

 

Azerbaijan: Fidan Huseynova releases new version of ‘I Wanna Be Like You’

Fidan Huseynova from the new video of 'I Wanna Be Like You'
Fidan Huseynova from the new video of ‘I Wanna Be Like You’

Fidan Huseynova has released a revamped version of her Azerbaijan 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest entry, I Wanna Be Like You. The song has been given a makeover and is more upbeat.

A brand new video clip has also been released.

Check out the new version of I Wanna Be Like You below.

Source: ESC Covers; eurovoix

Taylor Hynes to represent Ireland at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest …and some familiar faces in the video clip!

Taylor Hynes {copyright: TG4}
Taylor Hynes {copyright: TG4}

Taylor Hynes has been selected to represent Ireland at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song IOU. He has also released the official music video featuring a couple of well known faces to the Eurovision world!

In the video clip for IOU we see former Eurovision winner from 1993 for Ireland, Niamh Kavanagh, and the Irish ESC representative in Lisbon, Ryan O’Shaughnessy.

IOU is composed by Niall Mooney, Jonas Gladnikoff and Taylor Hynes.

You can see the video for IOU below.

Source: ESC Covers; junioreurovision.tv; TG4

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