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PRESS RELEASE (4/03/2014)
Youth initiatives organized by the YEPP Group Loano with contributions from the’Youth Policy Department of the City of Loano, of Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin, and of the “A. De Mari” Foundation of Savona.
The March 5 will open up registrations for the 5th edition to the competition “Up'n'coming” from this year named Yepp Factor only for Up'n'Coming. Until the March 24 young bands from Liguria can apply to participate in the competition.
As in previous editions, the first selection will be made through online voting.
The 5 top-rated bands will then participate in the live evening, the May 24, in front of a jury technique, which will evaluate song lyrics, musical composition, stage presence, performance technique and interpretation, decreeing the winner at the end of the evening.
For the first-place group as a prize there will be a music video And participation in the 2014 edition of the festival Justenice to Justenice (date to be designated). In addition, the first three band ranked will have the opportunity to play at the YEPP Music Festival scheduled at Loano on June 14.
The competition aims to promote youth music production and live music. The requirements for admission to the competition are the average age of the band not exceeding 26 years (1 out of quota band members is allowed), the residence in Liguria and the presentation of the demo of an unreleased song.
Participation in the competition is free of charge. Interested bands should fill out and send to the address info@yepploano.it the application form on the website www.yepploano.it
Upon the closing of entries, the contest organization will screen the material received. The demos of the selected bands will be uploaded to youtube and directly placed on the website www.yepploano.it in the special section dedicated to the contest. Each band will have a personal space where users will be able to view photos, bios and stream the competing piece, which can be voted on via a special box. Voting online will open on the the first of April and will close on the April 27, 2014.
At the end of the scheduled voting period, the organization will tally the total votes and publish the results online. Both votes collected on the official YEPP Loano website and votes collected from individual tracks on youtube will be taken into consideration.
The first edition of the competition was won by the White Ravens with the song “Light in the Sunset, the second from the ParkAssist, with “Winter, the third one from the Sour Muffin with “Sharks” and last year they won the Apodyopsis with the song Girlquilone.{:}
