Ahead of February's final, you can now take a listen to all 10 songs competing in Ukraine's Eurovision pre-selection 'Vidbir'.

It’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries – the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” -- that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war.

Suspilne, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, has published the longlist entries for Vidbir 2025, the ten entries will be ...

a Ukrainian-American heard the song performed in Carnegie Hall and wrote the new lyrics, turning it into “Carol of the Bells”. The Ukrainian National Chorus, after touring in Europe ...

Since then, the Ukrainian version of the song has been performed 70 times in Carnegie Hall alone. Among the Ukrainian National Choir’s audience was Peter Wilhousky, a choral director and New ...

"The song contest is an opportunity ... ambassador," it said in a statement. "But the national selection 2019 revealed... a systemic problem in Ukraine's music industry: The connection of artists ...

But the song is built around a spine-tingling ... which contains the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower. "My daughter-in-law told us the story of a woman at the beginning of this conflict ...