As one time event, small Eurovision party is planned to take place in London, UK in nightclub Scala on 25th of April. Confirmed guests of the show are Ani Lorak (Ukraine), Isis Gee (Poland), Morena (Malta), Euroband (Iceland), Maria Haukass (Norway), Laka (Bosnia), Nico & Vlad (Romania), Sirusho (Armenia) and Ruslan Alehno (Belarus). Special guests of the party are Bucks Fizz, British Eurovision winners, Icelanding 1997 entrant Paul Oscar, Swedish singer Nanne Gronvall and DJ Dave Simmons. Attending contest, but not performing will be contestants from UK, Ireland and Bulgaria. Photo galleries: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Next day most of the performers will move to Belgium, when on 26th and 27th of April similar "gathering" will be held. It is scheduled to be attended by Dima Bilan (Russia), Nico & Vlad (Romania), Ani Lorak (Ukraine), Laka (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Rebeka Dremelj (Slovenia) and Jelena Tomasevic (Serbia) and on 27th they will be joined by Armenian Sirusho and will all perform at the Easter concert, organized by Romanian diaspora. Though both events will not be broadcasted, it is expected that during stay in these countries artists will give interviews to mass-media and will have chance to meet their fans. Photogallery 1

Singers from CIS countries are also actively involved in promo-tours. 6 countries have been visited by Belarus entrant Ruslan Alehno, 5 by Georgian Diana Gurtskaya, 9 - by Ukrainian Ani Lorak, 7 - by Azerbaijani Elnur & Samir. Recently, Eurovision tours have also been started by Russian entrant Dima Bilan, Armenian Sirusho and Moldovan Geta Burlacu. Currently they have visited only couple of countries, but this number will certainly increase by May.
Unfortunately, Dima Bilan's tours to Sweden and the Netherlands have been cancelled - local media hasn't expressed much of interest in Russian contestant and his team decided to concentrate on the rehearsals instead.

From rest of Europe massive tours are planned by singers from Turkey, Sweden and France (who is currently on pan-European solo concert tour, which will continue after ESC as well). Unfortunately, currently no European singers (besides CIS entrants) have visited Russia or Belarus, though already 7 contestants paid visit to Ukraine.

Interestingly, among almost non-touring countries are Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia), Northern European countries (Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway) and 3 of big4 countries (Germany, UK and Spain).

You can find the schedule of promotours of Eurovision 2008 participants and video links below on this page, more information on tours and photogalleries is available at our national pages.

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