Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015

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The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is a television show taking place at the former Malta Shipbuilding in Marsa on 21 and 22 November 2015, produced by PBS.

This is an earlier date for the annual contest through which the song representing Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest is selected. Two reasons were given for the change in date. The first is that PBS wants to take advantage of the setup for the Junion Eurovision Song Contest 2014 which is taking place just days before this event, and the other is that an earlier selection gives the local producers more time to prepare the song for the pan-European contest in Malta, as well as a longer period over which to promote it.

The Rules

Songwriters for this contest can be of any nationality, however, singers have to be of Maltese nationality or hold dual citizenship.

Singers were allowed perform up to two songs for semi-final round of the competition, which will be comprise a total of 20 songs.

Firelight, the winners of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014, is not permitted to defend his title.

The winner of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 will become Malta's entry to the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Vienna, Austria in May.

PBS reserves the right to make alterations to the song and select a different singer, if necessary, regardless of the winning song/singer.


The Event

The semifinal and final sessions will be broadcast live on TVM. The hosts are to be announced ? and to be confirmed ?. Someone still to be announced ? will be providing links from the Red Carpet and backstage.


Preliminary round

The Public Broadcasting Services received 134 entries from established artists. A preliminary selection round determined the 48 songs on 28 September 2014. 20 song will be performed at the semifinal of the 2015 edition of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest. These were announced during a special edition of the popular TVM programm Xarabank on Friday 3 October 2014.

Semi-final

Here are the 20 songs from the semifinal of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014, in the order in which they will be performed on Friday 3 October, 2014.

On Friday 3 October 2014 in night show Xarabank has just started the next adventure of the selection of the 20 Semi-Finalists of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014 – 2015. The festival will be split on 2 days. The semi-final will take place on Friday 21 November 2014 and the Grand Final will take place on Saturday 22 November 2014. The winner will win the ticket to represent Malta on the big Eurovision stage next May in Vienna.

This is the second time that PBS is holding the Malta Eurovision Song Contest (MESC) in a space of ten months. Firelight, the winners of the session held last February, represented Malta during the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen last May. The winner/s of the upcoming MESC will earn the ticket to represent Malta on the big Eurovision stage in Vienna next year.

Three former Maltese Eurovision Ambassadors, Ludwig Galea (Istanbul, 2004), Glen Vella (Dusseldorf, 2011) and Gianluca Bezzina (Malmo, 2013), are among the 20 semi-finalists out of the 48 short-listed entries. The list also includes four new comers – Karen Debattista, Iona Dalli, Dominic Cini Minik and Lyndsay Pace, and the nuns forming the ensemble Ekklesia although this sisters got many years of experience in singing and they got three Albums too.

The 20 Semi-Finalists

The Stage

The festival, which will be characterized by the presence of three preeminent performers as well as the new faces, is expected to be very competitive, entertaining and spectacular at the same time, not only because of the acts themselves, but also due to the amazing set up of the stage that will have a large 9 metre high 10 mm LED video wall surface, a 28 metre wide stage and 508 square metres of LED screens.

Tickets

Meanwhile, the tickets for the semi-final and the final of the MESC which will take place on the 21 and 22 November 2014 are already out for sale. The festival will take place just a week after the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and in the same arena in Marsa

You can purchase your tickets online simply by clicking on the Buy Tickets picture at www.tvm.com.mt

Friday 21 November: Semi-Final Gold Circle € 10 Platinum Circle € 20 Saturday 22 November: Grand Final Gold Circle € 20 Platinum Circle € 30

See also

Malta Song Festival editions
* 1960s: 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969
* 1970s: 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979
Festival Internazzjonali tal-Kanzunetta Maltija editions
* 1980s: 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989
* 1990s: 1990 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999
* 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002
* 2010s: 2013
Mużika Mużika - Festival Kanzunetta Maltija editions
* 2020s: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 
Malta Eurovision Song Contest editions
* Malta Song Festival - 1970s: 1971 - 1972 - 1975
* Festival tal-Kanzunetta Maltija għall-Ewropa: 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 
* Malta Song for Europe - 1990s: 1997 - 1998 - 1999
* Malta Song for Europe - 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008
* Malta EuroSong: 2009 - 2010
* Malta Eurovision Song Contest: 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - (2019-2021 see X Factor Malta) - 2022 - 2023
Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest
* 1970s: 1971 - 1972 - 1975
* 1990s: 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999
* 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 
* 2010s: 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019
* 2020s: 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 -