Imagine getting up on the stage at the Akoostik Festival and having the chance to share your own music with the festival crowd.
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It’s an opportunity that you can’t put a price on.
If you have five original songs or pieces of music, and you live within the MidCoast Council boundaries, you have a chance to grab the experience.
Not a Cafe in Wingham is holding a music competition, and the first prize is a set on the 2018 Akoostik stage, on the Saturday or Sunday of the festival weekend.
The competition is open to all ages and all musical genres, and you must be a resident of the MidCoast Council local government area. If you are competing as a band, 50 per cent of band members must live in the MidCoast area.
Submissions are to be made to Belinda at Not a Cafe in cd or mp3 format. The music will be uploaded to Facebook for public voting. Out of the results of the Facebook votes, a finals concert will be held at Jacaranda Estate Vineyards in Wingham and the winner will be decided by three judges.
“Originally we were going to offer them to record a cd, but then Akoostik just threw it out there and said ‘they can play at Akoostik’,” Belinda said.
The finals will be in May, with the winner announced at Not a Cafe on June 9 at a mini-festival.
Belinda said that if all goes well, the competition will become an annual event on the Wingham calendar.
Email notacafewingham@gmail.com for terms and conditions.
Julia Driscoll
Julia Driscoll has worked as a journalist for the Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Times for seven years. She values the deep connection with community that being a rural and regional journalist brings. Career highlights have involved environmental stories - bringing the plight of the little known endangered Manning River helmeted turtle to the attention of the public, resulting in wide-spread knowledge in the community and conservation action; and breaking the news of the Manning River ceasing to run for the first time in recorded history.
Julia Driscoll has worked as a journalist for the Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Times for seven years. She values the deep connection with community that being a rural and regional journalist brings. Career highlights have involved environmental stories - bringing the plight of the little known endangered Manning River helmeted turtle to the attention of the public, resulting in wide-spread knowledge in the community and conservation action; and breaking the news of the Manning River ceasing to run for the first time in recorded history.
