Tag: Festival da Canção

The first seven finalists of the Festival da Canção 2023 are finally known. This is Portugal’s selection for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). The first semi-final took place tonight at the RTP studios in Lisbon, with ten contestants performing. The first to take the stage was MoYah, while Esse Povo completed the running order. Several guests also took […]

This afternoon, RTP revealed the members of the jury for the two semi-finals of the Festival da Canção 2023. Portugal’s selection event for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) starts tomorrow. The jury, with a weight of 50 percent in the results, has seven members: Alex D’Alva (songwriter at the Festival da Canção in 2019 and 2021), Carlos Mendes (Portugal’s representative […]

The running order for the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023 was announced this Friday. The event elects the representative of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). On February 25th, MoYah will be the first to perform in the first semi-final, in which the last of the participants to take the stage will be the group […]

The singers and the songs competing at the Festival da Canção 2023 were revealed this Thursday. The event will select the representative of Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). There are 20 participants in the Portuguese show. Some of the 20 authors decided to be the performers, while others chose to deliver the songs to other voices. Suspenso Lisboa […]

The dates of Festival da Canção 2023 were revealed. The representative of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) will be elected on March 11. The country’s public radio station Antena 1 confirmed the dates this Wednesday: the semifinals will be on February 25 and March 4, while the grand final is scheduled for March 11 next year. Just over a […]

The authors of the 20 songs participating in the Festival da Canção 2023 were unveiled this afternoon. The show selects the Portuguese representative in the Eurovision Song Contest. Once again, the broadcaster RT allocated 16 spots to direct invitations and four places to the process of free public submission of songs. This year, it had 667 candidates. However, […]

The authors of the 20 competing songs at Festival da Canção 2023 will be unveiled this Wednesday. The contest selects the representative of Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). As in the previous edition, 16 of the authors were directly invited by the broadcaster RTP, while four were selected through a free public submission process (among 667 candidates). […]

After the open submission period ended on October 21, 667 songs were received for the Festival da Canção 2023. The competition elects Portugal’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). The number was revealed this Friday by the Portuguese public broadcaster, RTP. The four selected singers through this process are not yet publicly known, and they will be contacted in […]