Solidarity Songs is a national young songwriter competition jointly organised by Kerry One World Centre Tralee with KDYS and Clubheadbangbang. Now in its second year, the goal of the competition is to encourage young songwriting talent and to raise awareness of global issues. The theme is to write a song based on the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals.
Last year’s winner JAMES PETERS from Limerick has just returned with his band from playing a series of gigs in Jersey. He is now getting ready to record his Solidarity Songs winning track in the KDYS studios in Tralee.
John Buggy, Band Coordinator for the KDYS stated “This competition is a great opportunity for any young songwriter for getting their music heard; there are not many platforms for original music out there anymore as the music business has changed so much over recent years. The response we got from last year’s competition was great and we are looking to improve on that in this year”. Entries received by the Dec 31 deadline will be assessed by an expert panel in subsequent weeks and the winner will be announced in May, 2013.
Entry criteria
– one song in any genre, based on any one of the MDGs, or the MDGs in general
– to be submitted on CD or by email
– entrants must be aged 21 or younger
– entrants must be resident in Ireland
– melody and lyric must be entrant’s original work
– entrants may have another person perform the work
Recording your work
Audacity is a free audio-recording computer application which can be downloaded from www.kade.ie.
Submitting your song: Email or CD
Send your song, on CD, to: John Buggy, KDYS, Denny St., Tralee, Co. Kerry. You can email your entry in MP3 format (max. size 5MB) to solidarity@nullkade.ie.
Closing date for entries is December 31, 2012!
