Tonight: First semi final in FYR Macedonia

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by . . February 18, 2010 12:14 pm 87 views

Tonight, the first out of two semi finals of Skopje Fest 2010, the Macedonian pre-selection to determine the country's representative at this year's Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Oslo, will be held. 14 acts will compete for eight spots in the national final, to be held on Saturday, 20th. Tomorrow, on Friday, the second semi final will follow and complete the line-up for the final of Skopje Fest with another eight acts.

The Show

The showwill be broadcaston MKRTV- Channel One and on MKRTV SAT andwill start at 20:30 CET. Out of 128 submitted songs, 28 were chosen to compete for the Macedonian ticket to Oslo. Tonight, the first couple of 14 songs will fight for eightplaces in the final, which will be held on Saturday 20th. All songs have to be sung in Macedonian language. Tonight's show will kick off with the Macedonian 2009 Eurovision representatives Next Time. After the performances of the 14 competing acts, the show programme will see former Macedonian Junior Eurovision Song Contest representatives, among them SaraMarkoska (2009) and Rosica Kulakova and Dimitar Stojmenovski (2007),performing their own versions ofpopular Eurovision songs.

The voting
The results will be decided by a mixture of televoting and jury voting, each of them having a stake of 50% in the outcome. The televoting will start at the beginning of the first song and will finish 15 minutes after the end of the last song.Televoting is possible by calling in or sending an SMS.However, the voting will be confined to five times (including calling in and sending an SMS) per telephone number per song. Citizens from Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey can also vote via SMS in the semi finals, as well as in the final. This has been announced inMacedonian daily newspapers.

How to watch ?

A webcast will be made available here.

If you are not able to access the website directly, then click here, then on the fourth icon from the left.

The participants

This is the actual running order of tonight's first semi final:

  1. Duo Slide – Mrazam
  2. Suzana Spasovska & Darko Nešovski – Bog Go Ima Sekoj Kljuc
  3. Kerber – Chorbadzija
  4. Treta Dimenzija – Bolest Zaraza
  5. Tumbao Salsa Bend – Poludena Vo Nokta Studena
  6. Bravo Band – Taa Ima Se
  7. Vlatko Ilievski – Sreka
  8. Gorjan Stojanovski – Najmila
  9. Aleksandar Belov – Ostani
  10. Gjoko Taneski – Jas Ja Imam Silata
  11. Daniel Stojmanovski – Akcija Reakcija
  12. Darko Ilievski – Lagi
  13. Nataša Malinkova – Sever I Jug
  14. Igor Mitrovic – Malecka

In 2009, FYR Macedonia was represented by Next Time, who reached 10th place in the first semi final with their song Nesto shto kje ostane,but narrowly missed out on qualifying to the final due to the jury favouring Finland to get the 10th qualifying spot for the final.

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