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BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2015 How It Works You can enter this year’s BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award by completing the attached application form and sending it in along with a recording of your performance. Please read carefully all the BB C Radi o 2 points in the 'How to Enter' section of this form. Youn g Folk Ten successful entries will be invited to attend the Young Folk Award Weekend on 23 –25 January 2015 in Kendal. You will spend DAo yowu peraformr fdolk, roo2ts o0r a1cou5stic music the weekend meeting other performers and from any culture? attending workshops led by professional musicians and organisers. There will be time This competition is open to soloists, duos for socialising and sessions too. and groups. Accommodation and food are provided and a contribution will be made towards entrants’ For more information and entry forms visit travel costs. bbc.co.uk/folk or contact [email protected] On the Saturday evening there will be a Tel 01457 873752 concert open to the public, featuring a short performance from each act, from which a Please send us your entry by panel of judges will select four acts to Friday 28 November 2014. become the nominees for the 2015 Young Folk Award. Those nominees will be invited to the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in April The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is 2015, where the winner will be announced. produced in association with The Folk Show, The Folk Awards will be broadcast live on which is broadcast every Wednesday evening BBC Radio 2. on BBC Radio 2 from 7pm - 8pm. Some past Young Folk Award Last year’s winners the Mischa Macpherson Trio participants Tim van Eyken Jarlath Henderson Lauren MacColl Bella Hardy Jim Moray Jackie Oates Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller Megan and Joe Henwood James Findlay Moore, Moss, Rutter Blair Dunlop Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar The Mischa Macpherson Trio 10. The live performance stages of the competition will be recorded How to Enter for possible transmission on the BBC or online. Entrants will be deemed to have granted to the BBC, in respect of their 1. All entrants should be UK residents aged between 16-21 years performances, the irrevocable right and license to free on 28 November 2014. Proof of age may be requested. reproduction and exhibition in all media (now known or 2. Employees of the BBC and Smooth Operations or their close hereafter created) throughout the world for the full period of relatives or anyone connected with the competition are not copyright. The material chosen must therefore be suitable for eligible to enter. broadcast on BBC Radio 2. 3. Solo performers, duos or groups can enter as long as they are all 11. The right is reserved to cancel the competition at any stage or within the specified age range (in exceptional circumstances, if amend any of the terms or details of the Prize if necessary. just one member of the group falls outside the age range, this 12. Entry forms and recordings must arrive by the end of Friday 28 might be permitted). November 2014. 4. Groups should consist of at least 3 performers and not more 13. Entrants selected to take part in the next stage will be contacted than 6. by email or post as soon as possible after the closing date. 5. All performers must sign the entry form and send it to the postal 14. If a selected person is unable to be contacted on the email or email address below. address or address supplied, or is unable to attend the next stage, 6. An individual can make a maximum of 2 entries provided 1 entry the right is reserved to substitute a runner up. is as part of a group and 1 entry is as a soloist or duo. 7. Entry forms must be accompanied by recordings lasting no longer Postal entries should be sent to: than 8 minutes in total. CD by post or Mp3 via email are both BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award acceptable. Recordings cannot be returned, so be sure to keep a Smooth Operations copy. PO Box 18 8. The line-up on the recording must be the same as the line-up Dobcross, Oldham OL3 5FS that will attend later stages if invited, and THE RECORDING MUST BE A REPRESENTATION OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE. Email entries should be signed, scanned and sent to Multi-tracked recordings featuring extra instruments or musicians [email protected] will not be accepted. 9. The selection of entrants to perform at later stages may be If you have any queries please email subject to appropriate licenses and school permissions being [email protected] obtained if applicable. or call 01457 873752. n I have enclosed one or more recordings, lasting no more than 8 minutes in total, on CD with this application. n I have emailed one or more Mp3 files, lasting no more than 8 minutes in total. Entry forms and recordings must arrive by the end of Friday 28 November 2014. Postal entries should be sent to: BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, Smooth Operations, PO Box 18, Dobcross, Oldham, OL3 5FS. .
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