{"id":7323,"date":"2021-05-27T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T12:46:10","slug":"the-2021-dutch-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-2021-dutch-eurovision-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Dutch Eurovision Song Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC)<\/a> was held. With more than 200 million people watching, it is one of the largest music contests in the world – and one of the longest standing. The first was held in 1956! With the 2020 edition skipped because of COVID<\/a>, the 2021 ESC now also marks the 65th anniversary of the contest, and it was held in the Netherlands!<\/p>\n

Eurovision in Rotterdam!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

2021 is the fourth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest that was held in the Netherlands. The previous editions were in 1970, 1976 and 1980. The contest is held in the country represented by the last winner of the contest. And with the Dutch singer Duncan Laurence winning in 2019 in Tel Aviv<\/a>. This meant that in 2020, the song contest was to be hosted in the Netherlands. However, the coronavirus<\/a> caused the first cancellation of the ESC ever. Fortunately, this simply meant that the event was postponed to the year after, and we now got the 2021 edition straight from Rotterdam<\/a>!<\/p>\n