[NEohioPAL]Great Lakes Theater Festival Seeks Original Music From Students for Bardstock FM

[Todd Krispinsky]

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Great Lakes Theater Festival
In Partnership With WCPN 90.3 FM Ideastream
Seeks Original Music From Students for
Bardstock FM Radio Program


	Great Lakes Theater Festival in partnership with WCPN 90.3 FM Ideastream
invites students to submit original music to the Bardstock FM Shakespearean
songwriting contest.  All students currently in grades 6-12 are eligible.
"Songwriters get the inspiration for their new songs from many sources,"
said GLTF Director of Education Daniel Hahn when describing the song writing
competition's goals.  "For this contest we are looking for students who will
read, or have already read, William Shakespeare's As You Like It, who can
connect to one or more themes in this play, and who will then write and
perform a new, original song inspired by the ideas in the play."  The
Bardstock FM songwriting competition is open to soloists and bands.  Music
submissions of all styles and genres are accepted.  Four winning student
entries will be chosen as finalists.
Student finalists will receive a free professional recording of their new
songs in WCPN's state of the art recording studio and a live radio broadcast
of their work on a special May 2005 edition of WCPN's Around Noon.  Winning
student musicians also receive a $250 cash prize and a professionally
produced commemorative CD featuring all four of the contest's winners.
To register or to request more information, students should contact Great
Lakes Theater Festival's Director of Education, Daniel Hahn, by phone at
(216) 241-5490 x307 or via email at DanielGreatLakes at aol.com
<mailto:DanielGreatLakes at aol.com>.  The deadline to register for the
Bardstock FM songwriting contest is Friday, February 25, 2005.
Bardstock FM is part of Seven Ages, a series programming designed to
surround Great Lakes Theater Festival's 2005 production of William
Shakespeare's As You Like It, September 30-October 22, 2005 at the Ohio
Theatre, Playhouse Square Center.

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Media Contact:

Todd Krispinsky
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
Great Lakes Theater Festival
1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300
Cleveland, Ohio  44115
(216) 241-5490 x317
(216) 241-6315 Fax
www.greatlakestheater.org

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