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Watch highlights of the grand final
We hope you enjoy watching the video highlights below as much as we enjoyed compiling them. Aaah, memories! What a fab night 🙂 Thanks to all the super-talented performers who took part and to those who sent us extra footage 👍
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Congratulations to our junior winner!
Congratulations to the winner of the Junior Stroud Song Contest 2023, Cleo! This is actually Cleo’s second time winning the junior contest because she won it in 2021 as well! What a star ✨ If you haven’t heard Cleo’s beautiful winning song ‘Bad Things’ yet, listen here or watch the Junior Final below 😁 🎵…
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Congratulations to our winners!
Huge congratulations to the winners of Stroud Song Contest 2023, Tortellini! What a lovely bunch and what a great song! We wish them loads of success in the future ❤️ What a contest! Thanks to all the finalists who played so brilliantly last night: 3.0L Capri Mr Marko’s Outer Space Emporium feat. Anne Garcin Titus…
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Announcing the finalists!
Well, this is it folks. The public vote closed last night and the scores are all in from our judges. We’ve crunched the numbers, allocating 50% to the public and 50% to the judges. Here are the final results from the public vote for the adult songs (Junior results announced separately in the Junior Final…
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Junior final tonight
Don’t miss the Junior Final at 7pm on YouTube tonight, when you will get to see all 8 brilliant kids’ songs and find out who the Junior Winner is!
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Kids’ Contest! Introducing our amazing junior artists
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR AUNTIE ASH Hello music fans! Aunty Ash here, and I can’t tell you how honoured I am to be invited along to review all the kids’ entries to the Stroud Song Contest 2023. It’s been an absolute pleasure to listen to all these amazing songs, and in all honesty, I’ve been completely…
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The last four!
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR LADY MCSHANE Rainmusic, a musical collaboration of several local musicians, bring us our first song of this final batch. Steal Your Heart Away, is an uplifting love song. Musically it’s an anthemic number which brings to mind the 70s rock classic, More Than a Feeling, by Boston – which is a pretty…
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Six more exciting entries
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR LADY MCSHANE Step into the weird aquatic world of Terrence the Tentacled Alien who, despite his cosmic charms and all-seeing eyes, has a sad story to tell. This mysterious tune is no less strange and compelling than we’d expect from the unforgettable Gavin Pond, who regaled us in 2020 with another of…
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Five more contenders to discover
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR CHAS DE WHALLEY Regular members of The Woolpack’s songwriting circle will certainly know who The Reveal is (or are) even if he (or they) are reluctant to …er…reveal… any more personal details about himself (or themselves). That’s enough of that joke – Ed. But who cares when we’ve got ‘In The Trees’…
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The music continues: five must-listen songs from Stroud’s artists
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR AUNTIE ASH Hello everybody! I’m so excited to be here to review this week’s new entries in the Stroud Song Contest. What a fabulous selection! So many moods! Something for everyone, I think! Let’s dive straight in! First up is a song called Single Mum by Sharon Baker and Mike McSweeney. The…
