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Savannah Folk Music
Festival
2012 Festival
Youth Songwriting Competition
Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2012
The 23rd Annual
Savannah Folk Music Festival, presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society
on October 12, 13 and 14, 2012, will feature the 2012 Youth Songwriting
Competition. The purpose of this competition is to encourage young
people from the Greater Savannah Area, Tri-County and Jasper / Beaufort
County SC to develop their skills in musical and lyrical expression,
promote the time-honored method of storytelling by song, and recognize outstanding
achievement in these efforts. Any youth resident of the Greater Savannah
Area, Chatham, Bryan and Effingham County in Georgia as well as Jasper and
Beaufort County South Carolina who has not reached his or her twentieth
birthday by the conclusion of the competition, October 13, 2012 is eligible
to participate. Those who wish to participate must submit an original
song written in the acoustic folk ballad tradition by 15th
August 2012 on a compact disc. The songwriter may accompany him or herself
or have one or more other individuals provide instrumental accompaniment.
By “acoustic folk tradition” the competition includes story-song ballads
and excludes such musical forms as hip-hop, rap, jazz and
rock and roll. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.
From those entries submitted
by the 15th August 2012 deadline, a panel of judges will use
common criteria to select a group of finalists. These finalists will be
notified and required to perform their compositions at an event, open to
the public, on the afternoon of October 13th 2012. At that time,
judges will select the top three submissions. Third place will receive a
$200 gift certificate to PORTMANS’s MUSIC SUPERSTORE. Second place will
receive a $300 gift certificate to PORTMAN’s. The first place winner will
receive a $500 gift certificate to PORTMAN’s and will be invited to perform the
winning composition on the next day, October 14th, during the
Festival’s final event, “The Concert at GRAYSON STADIUM,” along with major
folk performers Deidre McCalla, Curley Maple, Al Petteway & Amy White
and Doug MacLeod.
Those interested in participating or having
questions may contact Chris Desa of the Savannah Folk Music Society by
email at acetank@aol.com
and download the application form. Local schools,
music stores, and other locations will also have such forms available.
Applicants are encouraged to work on their songs over the summer and not
wait till the last day of the deadline to make their submissions.
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