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Today the second rehearsal day rather than the thirteenth Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Eight of the seventeen countries come today. The times are indicated in our, Central European time. In Bulgaria it is an hour later and start the rehearsals so only at 10 am.

The rehearsal schedule for today. During the day, this article will be updated with movies of the rehearsals (and a summary), as released by the EBU.

09:00 – 09:40 Australia

09:40 – 10:20 Montenegro

10:20 – 11:00 Netherlands (photo)

11:00 – 11:40 Russia

12:40 – 13:20 San Marino

13:20 – 14:00 Serbia

14:00 – 14:40 Slovenia

14:40 – 15:20 Ukraine

Our colleagues of Escdaily.com (images: Steef van Gorkum & Emma Campbell) provide a convenient summary of all the rehearsals:

in the evening from 19:45 opening ceremony our time finds the place, which originally would have gone through the day before yesterday, but was postponed by the attacks in Paris. All seventeen young participants arrive on the red carpet and talk to the press. At 21:00 the big ceremony ended with Fireworks. The whole event is presented by Joanna Dragneva, participant of the Eurovision song contest 2008, and will also be broadcast on YouTube.

The delegations from the other nine countries go today on tour in Sofia and the surrounding area. You can read all about the rehearsals here on songfestival.be. More about the young participants can be found on our Candidates page.