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ACL Fest Sound and Jury Contest open for business
Your band looking for a way to play the Austin City Limits Music Festival? The terribly punny ACL Fest Sound and the Jury Competition is now accepting applications.
After a two and a half month bracket competition that’s equal parts juried talent search and online popularity contest, five finalists will be selected to travel to Austin for a musical standoff at Antone’s on September 24. Each finalist will receive tickets to the ACL fest and a travel stipend and a feature on DellLounge.com. The grand prize winner will also receive hotel accomodations, a Dell Studio 15 laptop, artist passes for the festival and a 45 minute spot on the Dell Stage on day one of the fest. Sure, 11:45 a.m. on the first day of the festival isn’t a great time slot, but for an up-and-comer looking for the proverbial foot in the door to the rapidly expanding megafest, it’s not a bad gig.
Application deadline is August 22, 2008.
(Pictured, Brandon Kinder, lead singer of the Abilene, Texas band Homer Hiccolm and the Rocketboys who won last year’s competition. Photo by Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN)
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