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The Beatles’ hometown of Liverpool, UK can be stepping in to host the festivities on the Eurovision 2023 Tune Contest subsequent Might, the competition introduced Friday.
Liverpool beat out shut competitor Glasgow, Scotland for internet hosting duties for the 67th version of the favored music contest, through which varied nations in Europe and the Mediterranean area ship a singer or group of performers to stage a nationwide music that’s then voted on.
Whereas Eurovision is often hosted in a metropolis within the prior year’s winning country, this 12 months’s victor Ukraine can’t host the upcoming present because of the ongoing battle with Russia.
Ukraine received the 2022 Eurovision Tune Contest this previous Might, amid a flood of goodwill prolonged towards the nation in mild of the conflict.
Present announcer and host Graham Norton additionally introduced the information on Twitter, writing, “Congratulations Liverpool!!! @Eurovision @bbceurovision See you in Might!!!”
The competition’s site mentioned the “Grand Closing” of the competitors will happen within the Liverpool Area subsequent to the River Mersey on Saturday Might 13, with semi-finals within the week main as much as that date.
“Liverpool is the best place to host the 67th Eurovision Tune Contest on behalf of Ukraine,” mentioned Eurovision Tune Contest government supervisor Martin Österdahl in an announcement. “The town is synonymous with music and Liverpool Area exceeds all the necessities wanted to stage a worldwide occasion of this scale. We now have been very impressed with the eagerness town has proven in embracing the Contest and their inclusive concepts for putting final 12 months’s winners, Ukraine, entrance and centre when hundreds of followers go to subsequent Might.”
The final time the UK acted as host nation to Eurovision was 25 years in the past in 1998, when the present befell in Birmingham.
