Europe In the build up to the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, several preview party events will be taking place across Europe and beyond, where a number of artists from this year's contest will be performing, along with former winners and participants. Here is your guide to the main events, and if you are lucky you may be able to get tickets to some of them before they are sold out.
The main preview event taking place is Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam on the 9th of April, but there also events taking place in Riga, Moscow, Tel-Aviv and London during the month of April. Here is your guide to those events.
2nd April: Eurovision PreParty Riga 2016

Eurovision PreParty Riga is back for its third year. OGAE Latvia is inviting all Eurovision fans to come together to Riga this April.The main theme of the Preparty in Riga will be Sweden, as this year's Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Stockholm.
Anyone who attends the Eurovision Preparty Riga will feel like they are in Sweden. There will be an opportunity to try delicious Swedish cuisine, attend an exhibition and to watch a movie about Sweden.  Special guests will be Herrey's who won the contest for Sweden in 1984 with Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley, but the attention at the concert will be on this year’s Eurovision Song Contest participants.
Currently the following acts are confirmed.

The concert will take place at Spikeri Concert Hall in Riga and begins at 20:00 local time (19:00 CET). Tickets can be purchased at the door or via the Eurovision Preparty Riga website.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=g … on_parties