BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/10/2006

Belarus transforms selections into Eurofest

The Belarusian selections for the Eurovision Song Contest get a face lift. BTRC from now on works under the name Eurofest and with a new logo. The complicated way of selecting a song for the international festival however remains. The Belarusian representative will be selected on 24th February 2007.

The Belarusian selections will be launched in December, when the fifteen selected artists will be revealed. In part one of the selections, a jury will select two of the fifteen candidates to proceed to a final internal round: an internal selection with the two best scoring songs, unless the televoters had a different taste. Then their favourite will join the two finalists, selected by the jury.

On 24th February 2007, BTRC will select behind closed doors one of the two or three final candidates to represent Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki.

Source:

http://www.belgovision.com/en/index_f.php?id=1826

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