LTV, the Latvian national broadcaster has confirmed to ESCToday that Latvia  will participate at the forthcoming 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in May next year.

Latvia is the 21st country to confirm its intention to participate at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Latvia  joins  Azerbaijan, Greece,  FYR Macedonia, Austria, Cyprus, Malta, Switzerland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, Portugal, France and Estonia  in the list of countries which will join the 2015 Eurovision party in Austria next year .  Whilst Montenegro, Georgia and Belarus have stated that they are  most likely to enter the competition next year.

Latvia selected its 2014 Eurovision entry and representative via a national selection. Aarziemnieki won the golden ticket to Copenhagen at the 2014 Latvian national final Dziesma with their entry Bake a cake. Despite a fun loving performance the Latvian band failed to qualify to the grand final in the Danish capital. The method and mechanism Latvia will use to select its 2015 Eurovision entry and representative is yet to be determined. More details will be released in due course.

Latvia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2000 with Brainstorm‘s My star and has won the event once in 2002 with Marie N‘s I wanna.

The official list of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest participants is expected to be released by the EBU by early January. The deadline for countries to submit their application in order to compete at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest has been set on 15 September.

The 2015 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to be held on 19, 21, 23 May at the Wiener Stadthalle, in Vienna.

Stay tuned to ESCToday.com for the latest news on the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.