Malta wins, there are smiles all around the continent, and there is an air of optimism around the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. There’s a lot to love after the 2013 Contest, so Ewan looks back on a week in Kyiv and how it not only strengthened JESC, but Eurovision as a whole.
This week’s ESC Insight Newsletter looks at Malta’s Junior Eurovision win, the upcoming National Finals, and Ben Robertson reflects on the shrinking entry list of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Junior Eurovision 2013 is over, everyone is heading home, but in the wee hours of the morning, Ewan Spence and Sharleen Wright look back at the week in Kyiv in our final Insight podcast from Ukraine.
After a nailbiter of a vote, incorporating national juries, public televotes, and an extra jury made up of kids (including a number of former JESC participants), the 2013 Junior Eurovision Champion is 11-year-old Gaia Cauchi from Malta with ‘The Start’.
Tonight, from the Ukraine National Palace of Arts in Kiev, a dozen young acts from a dozen nations will sing their little hearts out, all in the hopes of succeeding Anastasiya Petrik as Junior Eurovision Champion.
Gaia Cauchi, like every Maltese singer at Eurovision, has the support of an entire Island behind her. Perhaps the only difference here is that she has a shot at winning….
