EUROWEEK '09 - JESC DAY!

(the Romanian girls like Ralf)

It's finally the 21st! All the contestants are in their final day in Kiev. They have been on a tour, in very overcast weather. Then they will get ready for the big performance! All interval acts have rehearsed, everything is looking good. We have a colour co-ordinated audience on stage (is that instead of lighting or something..). Ukraine have done a good job on some things (Live streaming all week, kids activites..) and a poor job on others (stage, press access, interval acts).

Yuriy Demidovich from Belarus has broken his finger on the stage, and will have to hold the microphone differently, but he is ok and in good spirits! He had his birthday and all participants celebrated at the Eurodisco.

Bzikebi will not be performing in Kiev, they will not even be there. They are too busy and don't want to risk the flu. Disappointing indeed. Hopefully Victoria Petrik (we can only wish for Ilona) hands the trophy..

Luara from Armenia has changed her costume to include a yellow tshirt and white jacket. It is dreadful, not soccer at all.

The commentator when the children parade in at the start is virtually incomprehensible. Ani Lorak is marginally better, but still.. these are not the best hosts. Ani makes up for it with Shady Lady though!

Betting agency Bet365 has their latest odds up:

Russia    15/8    
Belgium    11/4
Netherlands 13/2
Ukraine    7/1
Georgia    8/1    
Malta    9/1
Belarus    7/1    
Macedonia 16/1
Armenia    16/1    
Sweden    16/1
Romania    20/1    
Serbia    25/1
Cyprus    28/1    
(http://www.bet365.com/home/)

Here are some promo items Cyprus gave out:

Get ready for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 everyone!

See you at the forum during JESC! Be there! http://s10.invisionfree.com/JESC/

EUROWEEK '09 DAY 5

More from day 5 in Kiev! 

Watch Ani Lorak:

Shady Lady - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygOFiJ8XJg

I'm Alive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_B3ZL3knS4

Watch Ralf in a radio interview:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tT3opLllM

Mariam from Malta 1996 Eurovision:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZVuSn2Daw

Laura's rehearsal (still vocally not as good as the national final):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5T7mR_pMs

Belarus rehearsal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUkCHWklf-4

 Armenian's with Malta

Mikaela hugs Mimmi

Euroclub

 Malta's presents!

Romanians and Maltese

Assembling the Maltese props by the parents

Macedonian table

EUROWEEK '09 - DAY 5!

It's only two days until the JESC now, and the tension is building! Today the latter 6 acts have been rehearsing, I was lucky enough to catch the Ukrainians waiting to go on stage earlier.. some interesting vocal warm ups coming from there. Andranik was sitting in his wagon chewing a piece of straw looking utterly relaxed, not nervous at all. The stage is looking a lot better, you can see that with audience everywhere the atmosphere should be full of excitement! The stage will hold children told specially to cheer and clap too.


Our JESC forum is full of live updates about what is happening in Kiev, as we have members from Europe, North America, Australia.. all around the world! So hop on over to the forum, join up, and join us! (click here) :D

More coutries are wearing costume now, with Malta appearing in rehearsal sporting a similiar costume to the national final, with the addition of their mini slide/playground. Laura's is exactly the same as the national final, but it needed no changes really.

Ani Lorak had her rehearsals today, she will be singing Shady Lady and I'm Alive. She has many dancers on stage with her and it looks nearly as impressive as in Belgrade. It will be a spectacle for sure, I cannot wait! So far she is miming, but shall sing live in the actual JESC.

The kids after this must be ready for the dress rehearsal, as 50% of their points will come from the jury, who judge not the JESC but the dress rehearsal. Hopefully Mimmi's throat improves! Below are some pictures!

Skating

Ani Lorak

 Anica + Malta

Cyprus

 Macedonians (victoria petrik in background)

 Georgia + Malta

Gifts Malta gave to everyone!

Double Trouble being interviewed

katya

This JESC season we asked you, the public, to select your favourite song of 2009. Only one vote per computer was able to be cast, and a total of 247 people made their choice. You could only pick ONE, it was hard to decide, but we did.

So Europe, and the rest of the world, I present you with the official results of the junioreurosong.net Favourites Poll 2009!

1st - Sara from Macedonia (26.32%)

2nd - Laura from Belgium (23.08%)

3rd - Francesca & Mikaela from Malta (12.15%)

4th - Mimmi from Sweden (11.74%)

5th - Ralf from the Netherlands (6.88%)

6th - Ekaterina from Russia (5.26%)

7th - Ništa lično from Serbia (4.05%)

8th - Andranik from Ukraine (2.43%)

9th - Princesses from Georgia (2.02%)

10th -  Rafaella from Cyprus (2.02%)

11th - Luara from Armenia (1.62%)

12th - Yuriy from Belarus (1.62%)

13th - Ioana from Romania (0.81%)

EUROWEEK '09 - Day 4!

It's around 2pm in Kiev right now (if I'm getting my timezones correct!). Ioana and the girls from Romania are going through their routine on stage right now. They've done several run throughs, each time the vocals seem extremely good. The cardboard cutouts make the act a bit more interesting, and they have the same outfits as the national selection. The Serbians are warming up on the piano, and have now gone backstage to wait for their turn to rehearse. They have what could be their final costumes on, and are having their hair/makeup touched up. Anica looks very confident. The Georgians are in their dressing room, but have just shut the curtain so no one can see in. The cello player is sitting with the coaches in the tv room, wearing normal clothes.

 Here is Mimmi's current outfit:

Here is Katya's current dress:

Today Sweden, Russia, Armenia, Romania, Serbia and Georgia are having their 2nd rehearsals at the Palace of Sports, while everyone else is out skating and sightseeing in Ukraine. Mimmi only sang parts of her song as she is feeling sick with a sore throat.

Laura has said:

Hello, Nelle and everyone from my class! I am sitting here with my dancers. Leandra, Danisha? Jaro, Glenn. Yes, that's who they are. Today we have done a stroll in actually a .."BOKRIJK!?" but actually in Kiev, we have baked a potty ((potteke xD))there. Allé it wasn't with a .. turn but just made with the hand. We have done the rehearsal, that was also really nice. We have done it 6 times or something. I think they liked it too(points at dancers) And yes I liked it too. And soon I'll go and eat something with my parents or go out or something. And yesterday there was a party, opening party of Junior Eurosong. Junior Eurovision Song actually. The first minister was there, it was really nice. Everyone had to sing their own song. And yes I liked it very much. There were also people that did something with bubbles, and that was really nice.. also pretty funny actually. And yes it was really nice."

and

"We have done today.. a lot of things actually, in the morning we went shopping and we have also bought souvenirs for my dancers, in the afternoon we've eaten McDonalds, that was really delicious. We went to the hotel for a few moments afterwards, ((The cutest sentence she ever said comes now:))I have done little buns in my hair again and stuff and changed clothes. (Ik heb terug dotjes gedaan in m'n haar enzo en and're kleren aan gedaan.)Then we went to here where it's all going to happen Saturday, and here we recorded a postcard. That's actually something like something they are going to play before your song. And you have to say something in English like who you are and what your song is called, and untill now it was all fun. Yeah in the beginning I say yeah something in Ukrainian actually.. and yeah. that's really nice. Dobre vece.. Europe then.. That means good evening Europe actually. Da or Dak .. it's actually the same but.. If you say Da it's really yes and if you say Dak it's more yeah. If you... no means nyet."

Here are the Maltese girls signing CDs:

Waving the flag for Malta!

The Dutch boys introduce themselves to Francesca and Mikaela:

 The entire Maltese delegation outside the hotel:

 Malta and Romania:

Ioana meets Mikaela and Francesca:

Nice friendship shot:

Anica

Luke's Live Blog!

Ukraine's rehearsal was vocally fine, although Andranik had some problems with his microphone headset. Energetic performance from the dancers. Camera work could really be much better. Below are pictures and videos.

Junioreurosong.net has undertaken extensive research on JESC voting, and has the following predictions!

Results:

1 – Belgium (100 pts)

2 – Russia (88 pts)

3 – Ukraine (83 pts)

4 – Georgia (79 pts)

    – Belarus (79 pts)

6 – Sweden (67 pts)

7 – Armenia (58 pts)

8 – Netherlands (46 pts)

9 – Serbia (40 pts)

10 – Macedonia (39 pts)

11 – Malta (30 pts)

12 – Romania (26 pts)

EUROWEEK '09 LIVE BLOG

Here is another photo of the stage, and one of Malta's duo in the main hall.

EUROWEEK '09 LIVE BLOG

Macedonia's postcard

Sara interview

NL postcard

Imprompture performance of Click Clack

Ralf interviews

A dancer falls

Armenia's postcard, looks good!