Praire Winter Songwriting Retreat - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submission Deadline: 4PM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2015

Manitoba Music, SaskMusic, Alberta Music with Fort Whyte Alive are proud to present the Prairie Winter Songwriting Retreat. This retreat will bring nine songwriters together (three from each province) for three days of collaborative songwriting. The co-writing retreat will take place at a secluded lakeside field station and architecturally unique cabins at Fort Whyte Alive, February 28 to March 2, 2016. 

Artists considered for this opportunity must:

• ·       Be available from February 28 to March 2, 2016
• ·       Be an Alberta Music member and current resident of Alberta
• ·       Be 18 years of age or older

Submissions will be evaluated based on:

• ·       Songwriting
• ·       Past experience in collaborative songwriting
• ·       Rationale for how this event fits your career development plan

For more information, visit https://www.albertamusic.org/posts/call-for-submissions-prairie-winter-songwriting-retreat.

Attention Alberta Songwriters! Chance to win $10, 000!

Attention Alberta songwriters! This is your chance to win $10,000 in cash for writing and recording a song about Alberta. It could be about a place, an event, a person or just a feeling you get from Alberta. Any genre of music works - from hip hop to folk and everything in between.

Enter your original, non-published song about Alberta by 11:59 pm on September 3, 2014. Complete contest rules and details on how to enter can be found here: 
http://www.wearealberta.ca/community/all-albertan-song-contest

All-Albertan Song Contest

From Ian Tyson’s Four Strong Winds to Paul Brandt’s Alberta Bound, there are countless inspirational songs written about Alberta, by Albertans. ATB Financial, Alberta Music and CKUA are looking for that next great Alberta song. Yes, the All-Albertan Song Contest is back!

If you’re an Alberta songwriter, enter an original, unreleased tune about your home province for a chance to win $10,000 in cash from ATB, $2,000 towards a professional recording of the song from Alberta Music and a spot on Alberta Music’s 2013 showcase CD.

To be eligible for the contest, you must be a current member of the Alberta Music Industry Association. Yearly membership dues are just $31.50 and include tons of great benefits!

Deadline for entries is April 8, 2012. We’ll announce the winner at the final Untapped Alberta concert on April 28, 2012 at Scalliwags in Camrose.

Click here for details on contest rules and how to enter.