![]() Five minutes are allocated for each performer on the night, One minute for changeover and intro, four minutes for the song.Note that time is tight: please do not add any further introductions on the night. These words will be read out by the MC, while the performer is plugging in instruments, adjusting microphones etc. The performers must each submit, by email before the competition, up to 40 words to introduce themselves and/or their song.Each performer must pay £5 entry on the evening.The performers must arrive, and make themselves known to the MC, by 7.45pm The entrant must perform the song on the night of the competition, or make their own arrangements for another singer to do so.If you have a co-writer(s) a different person must be named as “lead author” for a second song. Only one song can be entered per entrant.The song must not have been placed first, second or third in any other competition, nor have been commercially released ( sold in shops or online).The tune may be an existing traditional tune (“public domain”), but not a melody still under copyright.If your song is a pastiche of another song, indicate the source and whether it is still under copyright. The words of the song must be original.If you have substantially adapted an earlier unfinished song, please indicate the new content made after the above date The song must have been written no earlier than 1 st January 2020.If too many entries have been received, the organisers reserve the right to select entries, and will advise any rejection no later than 11pm Thursday 19 th May 2021. Each entry will be allocated a performance slot and informed by email by 11pm Wednesday 18 th May 2022.Late or incomplete entries will not be accepted All entries must be submitted by email, as described above.This information will be stored in accordance with GDPR for the duration of the competition and to provide feedback afterwards. Contact details for the “lead author” includingĭo not send attachments, nor links to online recordings.The name(s) of the performer(s) on the night.(For co-writers, the first named is the "lead author") The date it was completed or first performed, and any other copyright information.and the following in the body of the email :.an email to with the subject line: Edinburgh FC songwriting competition entry,.Submit, by 11pm (BST) Monday 16 th May 2022, Prizes will be awarded on the night for the best songs, in the opinion of the judges based on the criteria below, and an extra prize is voted for by the audience. but please don't send entries just yet!) What it isĪn annual competition where you perform an original, unpublished song, up to four minutes in length at Edinburgh Folk Club, Ukrainian Community Centre, Royal Terrace, between 8pm and 10.30pm on Wednesday 25 th May 2022.
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