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How your band can perform at Glastonbury Festival 2019
Fancy bagging yourself a slot at Glastonbury Festival this year?
The legendary festival have just announced details of their annual Emerging Talent Competition.
The competition offers unsigned artists from the UK and Ireland from any genre a chance to compete and win a slot at the 2019 festival.
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Winners of the free entry competition will also be awarded a £5,000 talent development prize from the PRS foundation. Two runners up will also be awarded a subsequent £2,500.
The entry window will be open for one week only from 9am Monday 28th January until 5pm on Monday 4th February via the Glastonbury Festival website.
To enter, acts will need to supply a link to one original song on SoundCloud, plus a link to a video of themselves performing live which can simply be a bedroom recording.
Previous winners and finalists of the competition have included Nigerian born rapper Flohio, R&B singer Izzy Bizu, singer song-writer Declan Mckenna and politically driven pop group She Drew The Gun.
Once the entries are in, a panel of 30 of the UK’s best music writers will help compile a longlist of 90 acts. The longlist will then be narrowed down to a shortlist of eight artists by judges including Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, before the live finals in Pilton in April decide the winning act. For the past four competitions, all eight of the finalists were offered slots at that year’s Festival.
Emily Eavis has said, “After our year off, we can’t wait to hear the latest crop of undiscovered music that’s out there. New music is hugely important to what this Festival is about, and the Emerging Talent Competition has helped us to unearth so many incredible artists from across the genres.”
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