Auditions this Friday
May 14 2008 12:03:18:610PM  - (SA)  
Andy Galloway

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Are you one of the 12 regional winners that will share in the more than R170 000 in prizes and sponsorships that are up for grabs?

Auditions for Express Northern Cape will be on Friday 16 May at 16:30 at the Diamond Pavilion’s boardroom in Kimberley.

We are looking for someone who not only sings well, but also has the stage personality to perform.

You might be chosen as one of 12 regional winners to compete for one of the top three positions on 11 and 12 July at the final during the Volksblad Arts Festival.

Lovely prizes, including a Nintendo Wii, a bursary, a recording contract, a management contract, accommodation, kettle braais, a cell phone, gift packs, cash prizes and gift vouchers can be won. All that you must do, is sing.

Do not be scared to come and give it a go.

Perhaps you have that x-factor that is needed to make you a winner.

Central Weeklies are once again hosting this popular singing competition, for the seventh year, and this year Spontaan is bigger than ever before.

A winner will be chosen for each of the 12 community newspapers (Express Northern Cape, Express Qwaqwa, Ons Stad, Bloemnuus, Vista, Forum, Vrystaat, Maluti, Kroonnuus, Kuruman Bulletin and NoordKaap).

The 12 regional winners will battle it out at Bloem Plaza and the Volksblad Arts Festival in Bloemfontein on 11 and 12 July.

The winner of each regional leg will be announced immediately after the regional finals.

If you are chosen as a regional winner for one of the newspapers, you must then prepare five songs for the final.

Each finalist will perform one or two songs, after which the winner will sing three further songs.

Entry is free. No registration is needed before the time. Just arrive at the audition, where you will register.

The competition is only for soloists.

You must be 16 years or older on 1 July 2008 to enter.

At the regional competitions you must prepare any song of your choice, in any style, a cappella (without any backtrack or accompaniment).

If you are chosen as one of the finalists in the regional competition, you will be given another chance to sing the same, or a different song, using backtracks or your own accompaniment.

Backtracks and other equipment for the regional competition must be supplied by you. Judges reserve the right not to choose a winner for a specific newspaper should a competent winner for that area not be available.

Entries are free and participants may only enter one audition at one newspaper.

You must supply your own backtracks or accompaniment at the final. Sound will be supplied at the final.

Central Weeklies will pay for each regional finalist’s transport to and accommodation in Bloemfontein.

Come and give it a song this Friday.

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