Tag: contest
04.28.2008 Win a performance slot at Bumbershoot!
If you’re looking for a way to play at Bumbershoot 2008, look no further than OurStage.com. Upload your music into the Acoustic, Singer/Songwriter, Electronic or Jazz Channels on OurStage and you’ll automatically be entered to win tons of prizes, including performance slots at Bumbershoot, and even $5,000! At the end of May, up to three high-ranking artists will be chosen to perform, so make sure you’re entered by May 23, 2008 and don’t forget to send all your fans to judge for your music. For more information, check out OurStage.com.
04.17.2008 Get Creative & Score 3-Day Passes!
We wanted to make sure you knew that the WaMu Family 4th has just announced a major music video contest... Why should you know that, you ask? It has a huge prize package including four 3-day passes to Bumbershoot 2008! As if hooking up you and your friends for Bumbershoot wasn't enough, you'll also win tickets to a WaMu ZooTunes concert, a Seattle Mariners home game, VIP seating at the WaMu Family 4th at Lake Union, $1000 bucks spending cash, and some sweet video equipment!
All you have to do is make a 2-minute music video of you and your pals rocking "You're a Grand Old Flag." Easy enough? Get all of the details on the WaMu Family 4th Music Video Contest, and good luck!
(NO PURCHASE OR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED TO ENTER OR WIN, AND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. YOU HAVE NOT WON YET. See The WaMu Family 4th Music Video Contest Official Rules for eligibility and other details, available at wamufamily4th.org.)
08.17.2007 Bumbershoot's Got Talent! Do you?
Calling all performers in the Seattle area! This is your chance to be a part of the famous Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. “Bumbershoot’s Got Talent” is a variety show that is looking for everyone who has a 3-minute act ready to be seen by industry professionals and our panel of celebrity judges. Music, juggling, tumbling, sword swallowing, magic and anything you can do in 3 minutes – we want to see it!
Compete to be crowned “Bumbershoot’s Most Talented Without Exception!”
To apply, please send a short description of your act, including number of performers and any instrumentation to programming (at) onereel.org. Write “Bumbershoot’s Got Talent” in the subject line. All acts selected to audition will receive further information via email.
Deadline to submit is Monday, August 27. Auditions will be held in Seattle on Friday, August 31. If selected, you must be able to perform 3pm – 4pm all days of the Festival (Saturday, September 1 through Monday, September 3.)
Break a leg!
08.16.2007 Ultimate CD Competition - POLLS ARE OPEN!
You made the designs and playlists, now you pick the winner! Choose your favorite and make your voice heard. One winner will win the Ultimate VIP Weekend at Bumbershoot, and a runner-up will win two 3-day passes to this year’s festival, courtesy of The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
08.14.2007 2007 Bumbershoot Music Lounge!
The Bumbershoot Music Lounge returns with a series of intimate performances and interviews with some of the Festival’s brightest stars, all of which will be broadcast live on 90.3 KEXP/KEXP.org during Bumbershoot weekend. The only way to get access to this secret stage is to listen to 90.3 KEXP/KEXP.org for details on how to reserve your spot in the audience, or be a BumberFan and enter to win passes!
This year’s Bumbershoot Music Lounge lineup includes:
Art Brut • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club • Andrew Bird • Tokyo Police Club • Gogol Bordello • The Gourds • St Vincent • Yungchen Lhamo • Bert Jansch • The Watson Twins • Step Cousins • Dyme Def • Fleet Foxes • Lyrics Born • Steve Earle • Menomena • Iceage Cobra!
08.14.2007 Bumbershoot short video competition winner!
Congratulations to Patrick Gallo of Santa Monica, CA for his video “What is Bumbershoot, by Little Bobby”.
08.03.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Hemingway Challenge
Let's face it: books are long. They're chocked full of big words that frankly, we simply don't have time to read. Now more than ever people want the good stuff, and they want it fast. Just look at instant coffee, instant messaging, and instant photos for proof.
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08.02.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Ultimate CD Design Competition
Presented by The Seattle Times and the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Are you a music freak?
Do you spend countless hours compiling and reordering playlists on your iTunes to correspond to every possible mood you can have? Tunes for the road trip to Vegas? The perfect workout mix? Cleaning house songs? The "I Really Like You But I Can't Get Over My Awkward Shyness So I've Made You This Mix Tape" collection? Yeah, you know we're talking about you…
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06.26.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Urban Craft Competition
Are you crafty?
Do you rock with knitting needles? Do your recycled magazine mosaics turn heads? Have you found a clever way to repurpose chopsticks, tube socks or your old cassette tape collection? If you have a passion for arts and crafts, then we have a contest for you! Bumbershoot and ReadyMade are teaming up to offer you this great opportunity to do what you love and, if we love it too, we’ll display it at ReadyMade’s Bumbershoot booth. Plus, one grand prize winner will get awesome free stuff!
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06.22.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's "Top 4 Friends" Contest
Is Bumbershoot one of your Top Friends? Prove it, and win Bumbershoot stuff! It’s so easy…
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06.08.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Short Video Competition
Theme: “What is Bumbershoot?”
Bumbershoot is Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, of course. And the largest festival of its kind in North America. But what is it to YOU? Yes, the theme is wiiiiiide open in order to allow you to reflect the diverse and creative spirit of the Festival. Maybe you’ll create a micro-documentary, an old-fashioned song and dance routine or an animated short. Or if you’re feeling really ambitious, you might turn out a full-blown production complete with mind-bending plot twists and a surprise ending. Whatever it is, we want to see it and we want you to share it.
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