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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
We want your songs!
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! Read More …
Congratulations to our winner, Katavia!
Thank you to everyone who tuned in and voted this evening, from around the Five Valleys, the UK and the world. We’re very touched that so many people have taken the contest into their hearts and shared our goal of promoting honest-to-goodness grass-roots music. A Read More …
Our fifteen finalists
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 Read More …
Congratulations to our junior winner, Cleo!
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. Read More …