Song Contest - Ardmore Co Waterford - July

alfa beta

Hey all - If you have any knowledge of/connection to Ardmore, Co Waterford and you're interested in entering a summertime song contest with 500 quid and a studio recording session up for grabs, here are all the details.

http://www.ardmorepatternfestival.ie/news/208-song-for-ardmore-2013.html

We ran this last year as part of the 'Ardmore Pattern Festival' and it was a great night. The songs have to have some connection to Ardmore as you'll see in the rules. (Sorry, I know that'll rule many people out, but it's the theme of the whole thing, so we're gonna stick with it.)

The contest is particularly suited to singer/songwriter types - three of last years finalists were solo singers using accoustic guitars (+ backing track on one occasion). On the night of the final we don't have the resources to mic up full bands - you'll see towards the end of the rules what we can do re sound on the night - so if you do want to recreate a 'full band' sound it would have to be done using a backing track.

The entries received were largely 'spare bedroom' recordings and our judges had no issues whatsoever with looking beyond the recording quality and listening to the song behind it.

Anyway, if you're interested, just download a form from the link above.

Thanks all.

RebelRebel

This is the finished mastered recording of the winning song for the 2013 Song for Ardmore competition.

The Sunny South East by Declan Carey

YouTube Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ_6wRz6O3A

The mp3 is available to download for free at the dropbox link below for a period of time.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56456433/DECLAN%20CAREY%20-%20THE%20SUNNY%20SOUTH%20EAST%20EQ320.mp3?dl=1

And there is more information here.
http://www.ardmorepatternfestival.ie/sunny-south-east/

CheezePleeze

Your link to the contest site doesn't work. Any chance you could check it and re-post?

alfa beta

Hey cheese - the link in the OP doesn't work coz that was the original 'call for entries back in early 2013' - the contest is of course long since over so the entry page has been removed from the site.

It appears that the winner posted his winning song and some other info in the second post - and those links seem to work fine for me.

(There was no song contest this summer - but it should be up and running again in 2015)