Greece: Fotis and Maria to host MPLE

by Stella Floras 100 views

For the ninth year running, OGAE Greece are organizing MPLE, their annual festival, in Athens on 10th October. This year the show will be hosted by Fotis Sergoulopoulos and Maria Bakodimou, the popular presenters who commentated for Greece in 2007.

Over 200 OGAE Greece members and friends are expected to attend this year’s festival. Split in 25 teams, each representing a Eurovision Song Contest participating country, they will compete for the first prize. The competing songs cannot have been in the contest itself nor any of the local preselections and they will be presented by brand new videos especially made for the occasion by members of the club.

The festival takes place once more at the Athinaion Politeia, the 2006 Eurocafe, and it will be hosted by popular TV duo Fotis and Maria who hosted the Greek final in 2007 as well as commentated for ERT from Helsinki. The organising committee promises many more surprises for the members present.

This is the the final lineup for MPLE 2009:

01.Denmark Nords trøm-Hvem, hvad, hvor
02. Monetnegro Andrea Demirovi�-Oblak od ljubavi
03. Luxemburg Chimene Badi-Entre nous
04. Portugal Dulce Pontes-Lela
05. Belgium Wim Soutaer-De wereld draait door
06. Slovenia Samuel Lucas-Vse bi zate dal
07. Ireland Boom town Rats-I don’t like Mondays
08. Sweden KENT-FF
09. Poland Bajm-Krótka historia
10. Croatia Magazin-Sto bog mi oci da
11. Hungary DJ Sterbinszky-Még Várok Rád
12. Israel Aya Korem-Hasof shel hasipur
13. Monaco Mylène Farmer-Appelle mon numéro
14. Spain D’Nash-Un, dos, cuatro
15. Iceland Disela-Utopia
16. Finland Chisu-Mun koti ei oo täällä
17. France Sargue ,Baque t,d’Avila-Les Rois du monde
18. Greece Δήμος Αναστασιάδης-Esy
19. United Kingdom Duffy-Mercy
20. Germany Yvone Catterfeld-Glaub an mich
21. Switzerland Eros Ramazzotti-Un’ altra te
22. San Marino Laura Pausini-Invece no
23. Italy/Negramaro-Mentre tutto scorre
24. Turkey/Sezen Aksu-Deniz yıldızı
25. Russia/Alla Pugacheva-Ð�е Ð�Ñ�Ñ�екаÑ�Ñ�Ñ�Ñ� Ð�Ñ�бÑ�

More information can be found on the OGAE Greece official site and on the special Facebook page here.

Stella Floras

Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain.

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