LRT have held today a special press conference in order to reveal more details about the next year’s national selection including the acts that have been selected to compete at Eurovizijos 2017, which will kick off on January 7. The Lithuanian national selection will be made up of 10 shows with the national final taking place on March 11.
Find all 51 candidates below:
- „Golden monkeys“
- Otreya
- Augustė Vedrickaitė
- Edgaras Lubys
- Tadas Rimgaila & Tina
- Sasha Songas
- Rūta Andruškevičiūtė
- Benas Malakauskas
- Audrius Petrauskas
- „Justin 3“
- Dagna Kondratavičiūtė
- Paula Valentaitė
- Valdas Lacko
- Monika Mėčiūtė
- Rugilė Daujotaitė
- Kotryna Juodzevičiūtė
- Deividas Žygas,
- Mia,
- Rasa Kaušiūtė
- Lawreigna
- „Varjetė“
- „E.G.O.“
- Gabrielius Vagelis
- Ieva Zasimauskaitė
- Vidas Bareikis
- Marius Petrauskas
- Milda Martinkėnaitė & Saulenė Chlevickaitė
- Lolita
- „Fusedmarc“
- Erika Astrauskaitė
- „Hit“
- Virgis Valuntonis
- Gražvydas
- Greta Zazza
- Vilija Matačiūnaitė
- Dovydas Petrošius
- „Strėlės“
- Alanas Chošnau
- Valerija Iljinaitė
- Ruslanas Kirilkinas,
- Vlad Max,
- „Queens Of Roses“
- Evaldas Vaikasas
- Elvina Milkauskaitė
- Aistė Pilvelytė
- Julija Jegorova
- Audrius Janonis
- Soliaris
- Rasa Vaštakaitė-Shiny Raia
- Neringa Šiaudikytė
- Liepa Maknavičiūtė
The list of Lithuanian acts includes some familiar faces and new ones as we can find many former participants of Eurovizijos. It’s also interesting to find two former Eurovision representatives, Sasha Song (2009) and Vilija Matačiūnaitė (2014), who will be trying to represent their homeland again.
Eurovizijos 2017 will follow the same procedure of the last year’s edition, with special shows for artists with own songs and artists singing original compositions submitted by composers. All the episodes will be hosted by Ievai Stasiulevičiūtei and Gabrielei Martirosianaitei. The winner will be selected by a mix of jury decision and audience vote as well as the qualifiers from each show. You can find the full selection procedure and different stages by clicking here.