Chicago's Official Eurovision Viewing Party

Join Team Sidetrack in Main and Cherry Bar to watch the Eurovision Song Contest live on the Sidetrack Big Screen. Join your hostess Dixie Lynn Cartwright for your chance to win fun official swag. No cover. Cheer on competitors from across the globe in the 62nd edition of this talent show that helped launch the careers of ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, Celine Dion and more recently Conchita Wurst to name a few. This year's US airing on Logo is hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race judges Ross Mathews and Michelle Visage! The Eurovision Song Contest, organized by the European Broadcasting Union, is the world's largest non-sporting live TV event and the most watched live entertainment program in Europe, attracting over 200 million television viewers worldwide last year alone. The 2017 competition, themed "Celebrate Diversity," will be held in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv after the country's contestant, Jamala, won last year with a ballad inspired by the forceful deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime. The upcoming show already has made headlines with a controversy over Ukraine denying the wheelchair-bound Russian contestant Yulia Samoylova entry into the country because she had performed in Russian-controlled Crimea by entering directly from Russia, not via Ukraine. The move led to Russia pulling out of the competition.