Favorites on stage and the performance is totally blowing the hall up. Mariam is amazing vocalist

From Rehearsals Tuesday

From Rehearsals Tuesday

Josefine and head of delegation Christer Bjorkman were up for the interview with us today.

Армения
Литва
Сербия

Швеция
Бельгия
Россия
Молдова
Мальта
Латвия
Нидерланды
Украина

Вот так после первой репетиции.
К сожалению Беларусь, Грузию и Македонию я сегодня не увидела. Надеюсь завтра все сложится удачнее.

Serbia gives pretty confident rehearsal. As Sonja has revealed earlier in her interview, they have opted for two ballerinas instead of the national final act.

From Rehearsals Tuesday

From Rehearsals Tuesday

on our opinion has missed it's main concept - to allow entrants to get acquainted with each other through performance of their songs. It was instead completely devoted to the performances of the previous Junior Eurovision winners.

You can find photogallery here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jescminsk/OpeningParty

Daniil told that he had already got the opportunity to meet other contestants: Malta, Lithuania, Armenia and the others. He heard most of participating songs. As usual he spoke about his song, telling that Music is something given to us by God and his song is anthem to the music.

Young pianist, Yan, will play on the stage role of Beethoven, and music unites past times with modern times, represented by Daniil.

Biggest wish of Daniil is that viewers should feel the energy he together with Yan will be bringing.

Then we have spoken about the other music liked by Daniil. He adores music of kings: Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, but also likes to listen to pop-punk bands like Greenday, and music of classical composers like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, from jazz-blues he likes Frank Sinatra.

Himself, he likes to perform songs with clever words that can help to start thinking about the world etc.

Daniil has also performed for us two other songs plus his contest entry Muzyki Svet.

We also spoke with Daniil's teacher Nelly Dukova, who said she is working with Daniil for 4 years and he is also studying violin.

All countries have had today the shootings of the postcards that will be aired prior to their performances, and you can get the idea how it was like from this video telling about Georgian postcard recording session

It is already our 3rd interview with Yuliya, as we have already met her and talked to in Ukraine in August.

As usual, Yuliya has spoken about her song. Unfortunately, foreign listeners will not be able to understand the meaning of the lyrics, but Yuliya underlined that her song is not exactly about the plane as transport. On her opinion, flight is a dream, which she want to realize. The girls in tutu symbolize clouds in the sky, and through this they want to pass the dreamy atmosphere of her song. She introduce her good friends dances from Alisa group and then sang short extract of her entry.

Her biggest desire is of course to win the contest and bring the prize to Ukraine. She had very few time yet to meet other contestant, but she hopes the schedule in the next days will allow her to talk to them more, despite she is not very good in English.

Photos courtesy of JuniorEurovision.tv