{"id":59234,"date":"2018-12-20T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=59234"},"modified":"2019-01-04T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:50:15","slug":"2019-local-songwriters-contest-deadline-is-december-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/2019-local-songwriters-contest-deadline-is-december-31-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Local Songwriters Contest Deadline is December 31, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>2019 Local Songwriters Contest<\/strong> will kick off\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/visitoxfordms.com\/pop-up-oxford\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Up Oxford,<\/a>\u00a0a week long festival celebrating the food, music, arts and culture of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The songwriters contest returns with additional partners, new prizes, and a great space. <strong>Yoknapatawpha Arts Council<\/strong> is now accepting submissions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prizes for this year extend beyond cash awards to include performances on <strong>Thacker Mountain Radio<\/strong> and a booking on the<strong> Summer Sunset Series.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of prizes for the 2019 event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Place:<\/strong> $500 and a spot on Thacker Mountain Radio\u00a0<br>(based on mutually agreed upon dates for live performance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second Place:<\/strong> $250<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third Place:<\/strong> $100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performance Prize:<\/strong> A paid booking at the LOU Summer Sunset Series (must be available 1st Sunday in June 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Audience Award:<\/strong> A $50 award will be determined by vote from the audience as to their favorite song of the Showcase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Finalist Prize:<\/strong> Oxford Recording Studio single recording session including up to 6-hours of recording, mixing and mastering. All finalists who perform at the contest will be entered in this drawing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submissions<\/strong> are now being accepted online:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordff.wufoo.com\/forms\/xqs423s0gq0ap9\/\" target=\"_blank\">2019 Small Hall Songwriters Contest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Local Songwriters Contest will kick off\u00a0Pop Up Oxford,\u00a0a week long festival celebrating the food, music, arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,1],"tags":[13711,13712,5,13710,13708,13709,846,1177,2396],"class_list":["post-59234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-event","category-uncategorized","tag-2019-local-songwriters-contest","tag-local-songwriters-contest","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford-recording-studio","tag-songwriters-contest","tag-summer-sunset-series","tag-thacker-mountain-radio","tag-yac","tag-yoknapatawpha-arts-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/classical_guitar1.jpg?fit=486%2C325&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}