TVR announced the jury for SELECTIA NATIONALA 2018. Marian Ionescu, Ilinca Băcilă, Nicu Patoi, Liliana Ştefan and Viorel Gavrilă are this year's jury members. Ilinca, as you all know, was part of the duet that brought Romania the 7th place at Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv, with the song " Yodel It!, along Alex Florea, who is competing again this year! Viorel Gavrilă is a prolific romanian composer, with more that 270 songs composed for the romanian musical scene. He was previously in the national jury in 2015, when Voltaj won the national selection. Marian Ionescu is the founder of the famous roma

Yesterday began the live auditions for the 72 songs competing in " Selectia Nationala 2018".Among the hopefuls this year are: Feli, JUkebox, MIHAI ( ESC 2006), Alex Florea (ESC 2017), Eduard Santha or Xandra, and among the compoiser we have artists from Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Moldova. The auditions are recorded live in the TVR studios, and probably will be broadcasted at some point later this year. The jury has to decide the 60 songs participating in the semifinals. Good Luck everyone! Here are a few of the songs that are participating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHkmW9QDs2U&ab

Scena de anul viitor din Lisabona a fost proiectatata de Florian Wieder, care a fost responsabil pentru mai multe scene de-a lungul timpului, cea mai recenta fiind cea din Kiev. Scena are patru puncte de inspiratie: Navigarea, Marea, Ambarcatiunile si Hartile. Totul de invarte in jurul oceanului dupa cum se poate vedea, tot conceptul sustinand identitatea si istoria Portugaliei. si mai jos puteti urmari un mic video de prezentare a scenei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRR4KZYkyqk source: eurovision.tv / youtube.com  

Today TVR opened the submissions for Eurovision 2018. Between 15 November and 15 December 2018, all composers are free to submit a song or more which can be sent in physical format at the TVR headquarters or by email at eurovision.romania@tvr.ro. The schedule for the selection process will be as it follows: Between 18-20 December, all the submitted songs and performing artists will be invited in the TVR studios for a live presentantion of their song in front of a jury. The jury will select 60 of them and will announce the result on 22 nd of December. These songs will be divided into 5 semifinals, e

In cursul zilei de ieri a fost lansat conceptul, logo-ul si sloganul Eurovision 2018. " ALL ABOARD" au zis organizatorii ca ar fi cel mai potrivit pentru anul urmator. Filmuletul de prezentare este inspirat din lumea subacvatica si il puteti urmari aici: https://youtu.be/iwQQFRm6R9M Logoul principal: Si alte cateva logo-uri inspirate din acesta:                   sursa: eurovision.tv

TVR just announced that SELECTIA NATIONALA 2018 will take place in 5 semifinals and a final, in a total of 6 different cities in Romania. The slogan under wich the event will take place is „Eurovision uneşte România!” meaning " Eurovision unites Romania!". This has to do with the fact that in 2018 Romania celebrates 100 years from the Great Union of the three historical provinces. The submissions of the songs will begin in mid November , and the songs will be selected in December by a specialized jury. The semifinals and the final will take place during  January and February. We don't have the exac

The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will be held in Lisbon on 8, 10 and 12 May, at the MEO Arena, following the win of Salvador Sobral with "Amar pelos dois". 25 countries already confirmed their provisional interest in participating next year. Estonia will have it's national final on 3rd of March, Malta in January, Switzerland on 4rd of February and Portugal on the 4th of March. Turkey and Andorra already announced they will not be participating in the next year's contest. EBU will sent invitations for participating to all the 56 active members. We'll see the outcome of that in due time. Here is the of

The media outlet Ziua de Cluj released an article that reveals the plans for the municipality to host " Selectia nationala 2018". They already addopted the budglet for the next year event, so everything looks pretty settled. Plus the article was also shared by Eurovision Romania official facebook page. So we are heading to Cluj napoca next year. The venue will most likely be Sala Polivalenta, who hosted recently The European Gymnastics Championship, and for 3 years in a row is the seccond stage for the UNTOLD festival, also held in Cluj. Here a re a few shots of the venue we gatheres from all around the

It's official: The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will take place in Lisbon, with the semifinals taken place on 8 and 10 May and the Grand Final on the 12th of May. Here is the official video of the announcement: https://youtu.be/UUqpTJjCAjM Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in Europe and has a population of 2.7 million. Mr. Jon Ola Sand said today: "We are very pleased to announce that RTP will be hosting the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. The City has presented an exemplary proposal, and we look forward to working together to make Portugal’s first ever Eurovision the most exciting one yet

Marcel Bezençon Awards are a set of awards given by the press, comentators and composers at the Eurovision Song Contest event. They wewe established in 2002 by Christer Björkman and Richard Herrey, and named after the founder of Eurovision, Marcel Bezençon. The Press Award - awarded by the accreditated press at the event. This year's reciepent is Italy - Francesco Gabbani with Occidentalis Karma. The Artistic Award - presented to the best artistic performance and voted by the commentator from each country: Portugal - Salvador Sobral with Amar Pelos Dois. The Composer Award - rewarde