The Lithuanian broadcaster LRT has announced that the same mechanism that was used to select the country’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015, will be in use again in 2016. A total of 28 artists will go through eight shows until the Lithuanian ticket to Stockholm will be handed out to the winner. The first show will kick off on 9 January.

The participants are:

1. 4 Roses
2. Aistė Pilvelytė
3. Alice Way
4. Baiba Skurstenė-Serdiukė
5. Behind The Moon
6. Berta Timinskaitė
7. Catrinah
8. Deividas Žygas
9. Donatas Montvydas
10. E.G.O.
11. Eglė Jakštytė
12. Elena Jurgaitytė
13. Erica Jennings
14. Gabrielė Grigolaitytė-Vasha
15. HIT
16. Ieva Zasimauskaitė
17. Ištvan Kvik
18. Jurgis Brūzga
19. Lawreigna
20. Milda Martinkėnaitė
21. Neringa Šiaudikytė
22. Petunija
23. Ruslanas Kirilkinas
24. Rūta Ščiogolevaitė
25. Saulenė Chlevickaitė
26. Ugnė Smile
27. Valdas Lacko
28. Vlad Kalugin

We can find Donny Montell (Donatas Montvydas) who represented Lithuania in Eurovision 2012 among the participants. Donny has recently released a new single and expressed his will to come back to the Eurovision stage.

All selection shows will be hosted by Andrius Rožickas and Gerūta Griniūte, while final is expected be held on 27 February. A fundraising show will be held a week after the final. LRT has yet to announce the songs that will take part in the selection.

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