Congratulations to our 2021 winners The Many Coated with their awesome entry Rely on Me. Their joyful delivery and heart-warming lyrics, about supporting a friend through sadness, struck a chord with our voters and judges this year. Read More …
Grand Final tonight
This is it folks! Join us at the Crown & Sceptre at 7pm tonight to watch the brilliant finalists. It’s going to be fun, it’s going to be emotional. But most of all, it’s going to be amazing!!!! See you there xx
The finalists!
We’ve counted and checked all the votes, and we can now reveal the songs which have reached the grand final of Stroud Song Contest 2021! Here are the 15 top ranking songs (in song order) Song 02. Blackbird – Andrew DoorbarSong 05. Hold Me – BroSong Read More …
Voting closes tomorrow
We hope that you’ve all enjoyed listening to the Stroud Song Contest songs. The public vote will close tomorrow evening (Thursday 26th August) and we will then combine the public votes with the judges’ scores to select the 14 adult finalists, and to decide on this year’s Read More …
Voting is underway
We are so thrilled with all of the song entries we have this year. A fantastic 49 entries!! To everyone who has entered, thank you so much and good luck! And to everyone who has voted so far, thank you for getting involved. Well done Read More …
T-shirts in stock now!
We now have some of these very cool T-shirts in stock. They are 100% cotton, locally printed and will look 100% fabulous on you! We’ve decided to sell merchandise for the first time this year, to raise a bit of cash to help towards song Read More …
Songwriters Circle
Songwriters of Stroud! We thought you might be interested in this regular event, hosted by one of this year’s participants, Lisa Fitzgibbon. Lisa says, “I will be hosting a Songwriters Circle in the Laurie Lee bar at the Woolpack in Slad from September – 1st Read More …
Meet the musicians so far
We’re very excited to introduce to you the first ten acts taking part in this year’s contest. Listen to the songs below and see if you can work out: Which songwriter is currently living and performing in New York? Which songwriter is also a well-known Read More …
You know that new sound you’re looking for?
It’s the sound of Stroud! These are the songs coming out of the creative hotbed of the Five Valleys right now. Listen below … we’re so excited about the range and quality of our entries so far! Want to find out more about these songs? Read More …
This year’s first submission
Congratulations to 3.0L Capri for being the first entry into Stroud Song Contest this year! You may remember 3.0L Capri’s irreverent enviro-techno banger, Global Warming which finished 8th in our Grand Final last year. This year, Dr. Gonaz of 3.0L Capri joins forces with a Read More …