ERT has confirmed the dates and venue for “Sing for Greece 2027”, with all three shows taking place at Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The semi-finals are scheduled for February 9 and 11, followed by the final on February 13. Up to 20 songs will compete for places in the final, where Greece’s Eurovision entry will be selected. Submissions remain open until November 1.
Sing for Greece 2027 now has a confirmed three-night schedule, following ERT’s October 29 announcement. The first semi-final will take place on Tuesday, February 9, the second on Thursday, February 11, and the final on Saturday, February 13. Thessaloniki Concert Hall will host the process selecting both the artist and song for Greece’s next Eurovision appearance.
Thessaloniki had been named as host city on October 16, but the venue and precise dates had not been disclosed then. The new announcement completes that practical part of the planning, placing all three televised shows in the same facility. It gives applicants and viewers a definite February calendar while preparations continue on other aspects of the production.
ERT says the venue was chosen to meet the needs of the television production. Its facilities, technical equipment and capacity can support three live broadcasts. Further information about the stage design, presenters and public ticket availability has not been announced, so the venue confirmation should not be read as a complete release of every production detail.
The venue announcement also means the semi-finals and final will share a single production base. Candidates can now connect the selection timetable with a named location, while viewers have three dates to follow. Information about attending in person remains separate, because the announcement has not yet supplied ticket arrangements or details of access for an audience.
Up to 20 songs may take part across the two Sing for Greece 2027 semi-finals. That figure is the maximum allowed by the process, rather than confirmation that 20 contestants have already been selected. Applications are still being collected, and the final list of artists and songs will only emerge after submissions have closed and proposals have been assessed.
Twelve songs will qualify from the semi-finals, with those places decided exclusively by the public vote. Viewers therefore choose which entries continue to the final. On February 13, the winning song will be selected through a combination of public voting and juries, providing the entry representing Greece at the 71st Eurovision Song Contest.
Song submissions for Sing for Greece 2027 opened on September 22 and close on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 11:59pm. The call for entries, participation terms and online application form are available through ERT’s official website. After that deadline, the broadcaster will select proposals meeting the requirements for the televised competition, rather than announcing a finished lineup while applications remain open.
The format continues the broad structure of the previous Greek selection: two semi-finals followed by a final. In 2026, ERT also presented three competitive television nights, with viewers deciding qualification from the semi-finals. The new edition keeps that basic approach while changing the host location and setting an upper limit of 20 songs across the initial shows.
That distinction between format and contestants is important at this stage. Sing for Greece 2027 has announced when and where the selection will happen, and how entries advance, without naming the performers. The details of the live competition will become clearer once artists and songs are presented, rather than being determined solely by the publication of the February dates.
The previous “Sing for Greece” selected “Ferto” as the country’s 2026 entry through its three-night process. For the next edition, ERT is moving the national selection outside Athens. Thessaloniki therefore becomes the setting for the same basic competitive model, with the Concert Hall now confirmed as the specific building where the February decision will take place.
The national final is separate from the international Eurovision contest. The Greek selection happens in February, while Eurovision itself is scheduled for May 2027 in Burgas, Bulgaria. The international semi-finals are set for May 11 and 13, followed by the grand final on May 15. The song chosen in Thessaloniki will subsequently represent Greece in that wider competition.
Sing for Greece 2027 therefore leads to the international event but is not one of its semi-finals. The two calendars concern different stages: choosing Greece’s entry first, then sending it to Eurovision alongside the other participating countries. Keeping those dates separate avoids confusing the February televised national shows with the May broadcasts from the contest’s host city.
ERT remains in the proposal-gathering phase. No list of candidates has been published, and neither the songs nor the presenters or guests have been announced. Those elements are expected at later stages, once the submission period has ended and the selection of competitive material has progressed, leaving the confirmed venue and dates as the principal new information.
For prospective artists, the nearest deadline remains November 1, when the electronic submission form closes. For viewers, the next confirmed appointment is the first semi-final on February 9. Sing for Greece 2027 then continues on February 11 and concludes February 13, with the final night deciding which song will travel from Thessaloniki’s selection process to Burgas in May.
