Bosnia & Herzegovina LIVE First SemiFinal -video

Bosnia & Herzegovina has qualified with Laka - "Pokusaj" for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Final




Bosnia and Herzegovina was drawn 6th in the Final.

First semi final results

The representatives of nineteen countries have presented their songs tonight in the First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

After all songs had been presented, televoting started in all the participating countries as well as in Spain and Germany, who are already qualified for the Final, but were drawn to vote in the First Semi-Final.

Nine of the qualifying countries were decided by televoting. Furthermore, the highest placed song in the result of the national backup juries which was not yet qualified through televoting got a place in the Final as well. However, the TV public will only find out which country it was after the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday.


The following countries have qualified for the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest (in order of announcement):

Greece - video
Romania - video
Bosnia and Herzegovina - video
Finland - video
Russia - video
Israel - video
Azerbaijan - video
Armenia - video
Poland - video
Norway - video

eurovision.tv has an exclusive video with the reactions af all semi finalists right after their performance in front of the Eurovision.tv camera crew.

Bosnia-Herzegovina rehearsal and press conference

Laka is joined on stage by his sister for this excentric stage performance for Pokusaj. She starts the performance by hanging clothes on a washing line. She then collects bouquets from the four female backing singers who are dressed in white bridal gowns.

Laka - Pokusaj rehearsal






Press conference

In his press conference, Laka joked that the chicken that could be seen in the Bosnian preview video wasn't allowed to be on stage with them, so it ended up in a soup - which got roaring laughter from the many journalists and fans in the press conference group.


sources:esctoday.com; 12points.tv; eurovision.tv

JESC 2007: Georgia replaces Bosnia & Herzegovina

Due to withdrawal of Bosnia & Herzegovina for the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Georgia - the first country on the waiting list - gets the opportunity to take part.

As announced in May, 19 countries applied for participation. However, the current rules of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest say that the maximum number of participating countries is 18.

Georgia, initially on the waiting list, will now take Bosnia's place in the competition. It is the first time Georgia takes part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, after successfully taking part in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with Sopho's Visionary Dream. This means, the new list of participants for the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest looks like this (in alphabetical order).

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007

. Armenia (ARMTV)
. Belarus (BTRC)
. Belgium (VRT)
. Bulgaria (BNT)
. Cyprus (CyBC)
. FYR Macedonia (MKRTV)
. Georgia (GPB)
. Greece (ERT)
. Lithuania (LRT)
. Malta (MTPBS)
. The Netherlands (AVRO)
. Portugal (RPT) . Romania (TVR)
. Russia (RTR) . Serbia (RTS)
. Spain (TVE)
. Sweden (TV4)
. Ukraine (NTU)

The upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted by Dutch broadcaster AVRO and takes place on 8th December in the Ahoy' venue in Rotterdam.

source.eurovision.tv