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The Melkweg in Amsterdam is for the eighth time the decor of Eurovision in Concert preview party , the largest of the Eurovision song contest.

The concert goes next year by on 9 april 2016, traditionally during the Easter holidays. Tickets are available from Monday 4 January via the official website, they cost 35 euro.

The initiative started in 2009 Eurovision in Concert and in the meantime it has become the ultimate warming up for the real thing. The organizers knew last year twenty-four of the forty participants for a trip to the Dutch capital. Måns Zelmerlöw signed among other things as winner and Serbian Bojana Stamenov pet present.

The Organization presents itself each year with the aim to attract more participants and that is of course also the case now. During the event the artists the chance to get their song to perform live for an enthusiastic audience. Prior to their performances, there is also an extensive press conference in which Sietse Bakker, the Event supervisor of the EBU, officially welcoming all participants.

Watch a compilation of the most recent edition.