What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 6 – San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 5 – North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #48: Kito, Vanjess & Channel Tres, Amy Shark, Jagwar Ma, AlunaGeorge, Wallows
I love new music. There’s something about hearing the latest and the greatest and knowing that this song, or these songs to be more accurate most of the time, will be with you for the duration. But then there’s also something great about discovering tracks you somehow missed from ages Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 4 – Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #47: Brooke Alexx, Isaia Huron, John Errol, Jelani Aryeh, Sorry
Being human is a complicated business. We love our mothers. We struggle with weird and frenetic thoughts. We get caught in existentially sapping lockdowns. We drive across country on a bus decorated with marigolds (or something like that) and we wonder if this wonderful called love, which feels so perfect Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 3 – Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 2 – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #46: Love Level, Kartell & Tim Atlas, José González, Lauren Auder, Will Stratton
Are you frazzled? L Is life too intense and too full-on for you to collect your thoughts and think about what it all means, if it in fact means anything at all? Then sit down and listen to these five tracks which offer you not only lyrical introspection and thoughtfulness Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 1 – Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading