Online via Carrick-on-Suir
Open for entries 12 noon May 18th to 12 noon May 27th.
Streaming 2pm Saturday May 30th
The Clancy Brothers Festival Youth Busking Competition is going online this year! We may be locked down, but we can still have some fun in this ‘stay at home’ era. The competition is open to solo and group acts and there’s a great prize pot. So long as you play or sing live music, and you are under 18, you can enter to join the fun.
The Lowdown…
- Entrants can be solo, duo or group acts so long as social distancing and current government health guidelines are followed.
- Buskers can play on their doorsteps, driveways, gardens, balconies, or anywhere that the current guidelines allow. The judges will be looking for creativity and inventiveness, singing quality and musicianship, originality and presence.
- There are three categories: under 12, under 15 and under 18. Prizes of Carrick-on-Suir gift vouchers will be awarded to all the winners.
- Entrants can send a video of themselves playing two songs and/or tunes to clancybrothersbusking@gmail.com. (If the file size is too big, it can be sent by Dropbox, WeTransfer or GoogleDrive).
- Entries will be accepted from Monday, May 18 to midday on Wednesday, May 27.
- The competition is open to buskers under the age of 18 on Wednesday May 27.
- The videos will be uploaded to the Clancy Brothers Festival Facebook page and all the videos will be streamed from 2pm on Saturday, May 30, after which the winners will be announced.
Tips
- Play outside – it’s a busking competition! Play on your doorstep, in your driveway, in your garden, on balcony…be inventive!
- Current COVID 19 advice is that you can only mix with members of your own household unless out and about where up to 4 people not from the same household may mix while maintaining social distancing.
- So if you’re entering as a group you must all be from the same household.
- Or if your bandmates live next door or across the road you could play to each other across the garden fence or across the road.
- The HSE still asks people to stay at home to help slow the spread of coronavirus.
- Let your neighbours know – get them involved – they’ll make a great audience.
- Most of all, have fun with it!
*Please note that current advice from the government is that you may only mix with people from your own household, you may travel up to 5km from home for exercise, and must maintain social distancing.
*From Monday, May 18, up to four people not of same household may meet outdoors while maintaining strict social distance. The 5km limit for exercise remains, and everyone must maintain social distancing.
*As we enter Phase One of the COVID 19 Roadmap, the HSE still asks people to stay at home to help slow the spread of coronavirus. If you leave your home or meet people outside, remember to keep at least 2m from others. Hand washing is still very important.
To Enter
Entrants should send a video of themselves playing two songs and/or tunes to clancybrothersbusking@gmail.com.
If the file size is too big, you can split your video into two or you can send it by Dropbox, WeTransfer or GoogleDrive.
You must include the following information:
Act or band name:
Name(s) of act or band members:
Contact name:
Contact phone:
Contact email:
Address:
Parent(s) or Legal Guardian(s):
Clancy Brothers Festival Online Youth Busking Competition 2020 Rules
- Free Entry.
- Competition opens midday Monday, May 18, 2020, and closes midday Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
- Each act will enter video of two songs and/or tunes. (It can be one video consisting of 2 songs and/or tunes per act OR 2 videos consisting of 1 song or tune each per act).
- Video entries must be sent to clancybrothersbusking@gmail.com. (If the video is bigger than 20mb then it can be sent to cbfbusking@gmail.com via Dropbox, we transfer or google drive.
- There is a limit of one entry per act and each entrant/band member can only perform in one act.
- Entrants must be under 18 years of age at the close of the competition, Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
- The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
- Fires, pyrotechnics, fog machines, etc. are not allowed.
- The performance must be live and contain no pre-recorded backing music.
- A panel of judges will score the performances. Criteria to be considered will include but will not be limited to: presence, singing quality and/or musicianship, originality, and audience response.
- All buskers under the age of 18 at the time of signing the application form are required to have a parent or guardian sign the document on their behalf as well.
- Any act deemed to be dangerous, offensive or otherwise inappropriate will be disqualified.
- All acts must abide by social distancing and the public health guidelines set out by the Government.
- Failure to comply with any contest rules may result in Buskers being disqualified.
- All Buskers agree to have their name, voice, and/or likenesses used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to the competition including the Clancy Brothers Festival website and social media without any compensation or rights to royalties for such use.
- The Clancy Brothers Festival Committee reserves the right to make changes to the competition rules.
- The Clancy Brothers Festival Committee will have final decision-making power in any disputes that should arise concerning the competition.
- The judges’ decision is final. No discussion will be entered into.
*Please note that current advice from the government is that you may only mix with people from your own household, you may travel up to 5km from home for exercise, and must maintain social distancing.
*From Monday, May 18, up to four people not of same household may meet outdoors while maintaining strict social distance. The 5km limit for exercise remains, and everyone must maintain social distancing.
*As we enter Phase One of the COVID 19 Roadmap, the HSE still asks people to stay at home to help slow the spread of coronavirus. If you leave your home or meet people outside, remember to keep at least 2m from others. Hand washing is still very important.
The Clancy Brothers Festival youth busking competition is supported by COSBA, Tipp CoCo and the Clancy Brothers Festival.
