A record 22 artists from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest line-up will attend Spain’s pre-party in Madrid.
Yesterday evening Armenia was confirmed as being the last country to join the PreParty ES 2019 line-up, bringing the total to 22 Eurovision 2019 artists, with a further 15 special guest performances. This is a record number for the event.
Attending the pre-party is:
- Albania – Jonida Maliqi
- Armenia – Srbuk
- Belgium – Eliot
- Czech Republic – Lake Malawi
- Croatia – Roko
- Denmark – Leonora
- Estonia – Victor Crone
- Finland – Darude and Sebastian Rejman
- Georgia: Oto Nemsadze
- Germany – S!sters
- Greece – Katerine Duska
- Iceland – Hatari
- Israel – Kobi Marimi
- Lithuania – Jurij Veklenko
- Moldova – Anna Odobescu
- Montenegro – D mol
- Norway – KEiiNO
- Poland – Tulia
- Romania – Ester Peony
- San Marino – Serhat
- Spain – Miki
- United Kingdom – Michael Rice
With special guest performances from:
- Ira Losco (Malta 2002 & 2016)
- Alfred Garcia (Spain 2018)
- Vania Fernandes (Portugal 2008)
- Adelén (NRKMGP 2013)
- Las Ketchup (Spain 2006)
- Imri (Israel 2017)
- Cesar Sampson (Austria 2018)
- Suzy (Portugal 2014)
- Famous (OT 2018 winner)
- Lydia (Spain 1999)
- Betty Missiego (Spain 1979)
- Noelia Franco (OT 2019)
- Alfonso La Cruz (OT 2019)
- Tracy de Sa (Destination Eurovision 2019)
- Adelén (Melodi Grand Prix 2013)
On Friday 19th April, there will be a Welcome event, in which several of the special guests will perform at the mini-concert. The main event will take place a day later on Saturday 20th April at Sala La Riviera, Madrid.
This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of when Spain hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. The slogan for the event is “El Ritmo Que Nos Une”, which translates to “The Rhythm Which Unites Us”. Tickets are available to purchase here.
The ESPre-Party was held for the first time in 2017 and was deemed a huge success. It was granted “Official Related Event” status by the EBU, giving it the same status as the Eurovision preview concerts held in Amsterdam, London, Riga, Moscow and Tel Aviv. This made the event the first official Eurovision Song Contest related event to be held in Spain since the contest was hosted in Madrid in 1969.
Source: eurovision-spain.com
Will Jurij Veklenko film a music video for “Run with the Lions” before traveling to Spain? I hope so! If he doesn’t have, maybe he’ll film one after Eurovision.