Before departure to postcards shootings we have met Sarlote Lenmane. She has spoken about herself and about her song Viva La Dance - the sense of the song is to understand each other with the moves and dance instead of words. She has also introduced the backing dancers who will join her on the stage. She has already met most of the contestants and she likes their songs a lot.
We have also spoken with Irene Gruzite, head of Latvian delegation, who has revealed that the invitation to Latvia came very late, during Azerbaijan EBU General Assembly meeting and have decided to accept the proposal. They underline that they consider JESC as big festival, where all kids are already winners as they have been selected by their nations to take part in such a big event. It is too early to say, whether Latvia may take part in JESC 2011, even if it will take place. But they would likely to keep the tradition of sending Balss pavielniks show winner to JESC, or would have organized some small scaled preselection. Head of delegation also remembered the huge interest for the first JESC 2003, when there had to be a draw, as there was massive number of countries applied, and unfortunately, for several reasons the interest in the contest has dropped since that.