Performance Opportunites
Songwriter 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall
To be considered for this showcase you must submit a song by February 14th, 2012
This is an opportunity for performers to play a 10 minute set of original songs to warm up the audience at our Gala of Schools and Youth Music at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2012.
We are looking for an original song that will have the audience singing and clapping along….songs like the Kinks’ ‘Lola’, Oasis’s ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, Robbie Williams ‘Angels’, or Snow Patrol’s ‘Chasing Cars’, The Proclaimers’ ‘500 Miles’.
Check out the video below of the winning band of the Songwriter 2005 Competition performing at the Royal Albert Hall Gala in March 2007.
Songwriter 2012 at Rhythms of the World
To be considered for this showcase you must submit a song by February 14th, 2012
We are delighted to be able to offer stagetime at the Rhythms of the World Festival in Hitchin. This is a fantastic opportunity to play at a festival which attracts over 30,000 people! You will be performing on the same stages as many famous performers past and present. Check out the ROTW website for more info!
Click here to see our Letchworth Rockshool band, Stereo Breakout, performing at ROTW in July2011
Other Performance Opportunities
Songwriter 2012 at Afterdark, Bowes Lyon Centre, Stevenage
The monthly Youth Connexions / Herts Music Service gig for young people will host a dedicated Songwriter Event on February 24th 2012. Performers will be selected from the Songwriter 2012 Chart in January 2012
Songwriter 2012 at Freman College
Songwriters from the rural East Herts./Rib Valley extended schools consortium will perform their songs at a showcase event at Freman College in April 2012, date TBC.
BME Songwriter Event
We hope to offer an evening to showcase a selection of songs by BME students and workshop leaders date TBC
We are currently also seeking to develop and offer Songwriter 2012 Showcases at other festivals across the county.
Prizes
Category Prizes
Prizes will be offered to songs chosen after the competition closes on 1st September 2012
The main Rock, Acoustic and Urban Category prizes, kindly sponsored by Digital Village and winners will be selected by external judges in September 2012
Online Vote
The winner of the Online Vote will have a day in the studio with JP Productions.
Hertfordshire Youth Connexions will award their favourite songwriter/band a chance to record their new Studio at Lower High Street, Watford.
Josh Kelly Memorial Award
Hertfordshire Music Service will award the Josh Kelly Memorial Award to its chosen most deserving songwriter, in memory of the winner of the first online voting chart who was sadly killed in a road accident in 2007. See Josh's winning song being performed by his friends from the band at the Royal Albert Hall Gala in the video above.
Sponsorship
Songwriter 2012 workshops are kindly funded by;
Youth Music Open Programme
HCC agencies: Minority Ethnic Curriculum Support, Children Looked After and Youth Connexions
Rib Valley Extended Schools Consortium
Watford Borough Council
East Herts District Council
Broxbourne and Hoddesdon Extended Schools Consortium
HCC Stevenage Councillor Locality Budgets
As part of the project, we are also pleased to offer training for workshop leaders in partnership with MusicLeader East