One week after the Eurovision 2021 Grand Final concluded, the recorded “Live-on-tape” performances have been revealed over two evenings: “Eurovision Song Celebration”.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Eurovision organizers needed to come up with ideas to make Eurovision happen in a safe manner. The solution was to ask each country to record a “Live-on-tape” version of their planned performance from their home country. If the participant was unable to travel to Rotterdam (like it was with Australia), due to travel restrictions or have to quarantine while at the contest, this Live-on-tape recording would have replaced the live performance.
To honour the hard work each participating country has put into delivering a ‘Live-on-Tape’ back-up performance, EBU created two special shows featuring these performances.