The grand final of the prestigious and historical Albanian music festival Festivali I Kenges will be broadcast today live from Tirana’s Palace of Congresses. 14 acts will compete for the big trophy and the chance to represent Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
After a long but not less exciting two semifinal rounds over the two last nights, RTSH is ready to follow their 2018 Eurovision road to Lisbon by picking their entry for Lisbon and find out who wins the contest and represent Albania in May.
The line up for today’s show of the 56th RTSH Festivali I Kenges grand final is as it follows:
- Artemisa Mithi – E dua botën
- Bojken Lako – Sytë e shpirtit
- Denisa Gjezo – Zemër ku je
- Elton Deda – Fjalët
- Eugent Bushpepa – Mall
- Inis Neziri – Piedestal
- Mariza Ikonomi – Unë
- Manjola Nallbani – I njejti qiell
- Na & Festina Mejzini – Tjetër jetë
- Orgesa Zaimi – Ngrije zërin
- Redon Makashi – Ekzistoj
- Rezarta Smaja & Luiz Ejlli – Ra një yll
- Tahir Gjoçi – Orë e ndalur
- Voltan Prodani – Pse të desha
The qualifiers were decided close doors behind by the professional jury panel and announced last night. Head of Public Relations Klozeta Kurti has also revealed that this year, the professional jury panel appointed by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar will have the very own final say on who is going to fly the Albanian colours in Lisbon. This method differs from last year when an online and public voting system was introduced for the first time, even though it did not make much sense when it just counted 1/13 of the final outcome.
Kurti also stated that it was good for the singers and their entries to let them being played on the radio and upload them to YouTube, in order to get much more promotion beforehand.
This year’s festival is being introduced to the audience by Albanian journalist and television host Adi Krasta, who has already hosted the contest in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2006, so this marks his 6th.
You can watch it by tuning into our streaming platform from 20:40 CET onwards by clicking here.
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