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 children’s author and illustrator? Which singer has an album out …
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? You can read the lyrics and info about them all …
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 posse of contributors, including none other than James from EMF*, …
We are now open for submissions for 2021! Please check the contest rules before entering. You can submit your song here. Submissions will close in August, when voting will take place to decide the finalists (dates TBC). So pick up your guitar, hurdy gurdy, omnichord – whatever you fancy – and get writing!
We’ve totted up all the scores from the public and we now have our fifteen finalists, as revealed yesterday at the end of the Junior Final. Our finalists, ordered by song number, are: Song 11. Global Warming by 3.0L Capri AKA Phil JonesSong 16. Westward Ho by The PeekiesSong 17. This is a Broadcast by …
Well done to 7 year old Cleo, whose beautiful song ‘We Used to be Besties’ claimed the title of Stroud Song Contest Junior Winner 2020 last night. You can watch Cleo’s beautiful ballad below. We hope Cleo will keep writing and performing in the future. We’d love to hear more of her songs. Thanks to …
This year, as well as the public vote, we have enlisted the help of a selection of local luminaries to be on our panel of judges. The public vote will go towards 50% of the final scores, with votes from the judges deciding the other 50%. Our judges are people who we know to be …
Oh my very goodness! We have reached our closing date and we have an incredible 49 songs going forward into the competition! We will update soon with details of how it’s going to work this year. But for now we just want to say a big thank you to everyone who has taken the trouble …
We will not be accepting entries after Monday 7th September. We’re excited to be moving into the voting phase of the contest soon but there’s still a couple of days left for more songs and we always love to receive them! Please join us on Facebook and Twitter and help spread the word ❤