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Blogilkar in Amsterdam: SPECIAL REPORT


Blogilkar's Robert was in Amsterdam last night attending the 4th Eurovision in concert and here's his report.

Eurovision in Concert: A big success!

Last night the 4th edition of Eurovision in concert was held. It was the best so far. In comparison with last year, the venue De Melkweg was a well chosen location for this musicfestival. Even with a sold out concert of 1350 people, it did not feel so packed as last year and the sound this year was really good. 23 countries presented their song for Baku, only Gaitana from the Ukraine cancelled last minute due to vocal problems. One of the presenters of this evening was Ruth Jacott ( NL 1993 ) who started the evening with her Eurovision entry Vrede. Later she would sing 2 more Dutch preselection songs from 1993, Blijf bij mij en Medeleven. The audience loved it.
After the opening of Ruth Jacott, it was time to countdown the 23 songs from all over Europe. Here is the list of countries in order of performance:
  1. Greece
  2. Belgium
  3. Latvia
  4. Austria
  5. Finland
  6. Portugal
  7. Hungary
  8. Switzerland
  9. Turkey
  10. Albania
  11. Malta
  12. Slovenia
  13. Macedonia
  14. San Marino
  15. Moldova
  16. Bulgaria
  17. Lithuania
  18. France
  19. Azerbaijan
  20. Rumania
  21. Spain
  22. Ireland
  23. Netherlands
Except for San Marino, Rumania and doubtfully Ireland, all songs were sung LIVE. Well done, cause this year I could not discover an artist who did a bad job. They all sang well. Highlights vocally were certainly Rona Nishliu from Albania, Kaliopi from Macedonia, Filipa Sousa from Portugal and Pastora Soler from Spain.
The best show on this stage was for Jedward from Ireland and Valentina Monetta from San Marino.
The audience reacted very strongly on the opening act of Greece, Portugal, Macedonia, Spain, Ireland and the closing act Netherlands. The Dutch Joan Franka was given an extra warm welcome.
But the absolute winner of the evening was a song that was played in all the breaks in the evening. It was a song of a country that was not present at this concert. But to see the audience reacting on this song, we only can conclude that it will be Stockholm 2013.

Stay tuned for more stuff from Amsterdam by Robert.

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