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About the Winery Music Awards
One of the Central Coast's most successful music events ever among local artists is returning in 2007. Held on the grounds of select Paso Robles wineries, the Winery Music Awards competition showcases the best original, unsigned music artists in California and beyond with a backdrop of grapevines, stacks of wine barrels and the smell of fermenting wine in the air. The artists compete for significant prizes contributed by a variety of sponsor companies within and outside the music industry. A panel of notable judges influential in the music, entertainment and wine industries votes its choices for best artists of the competition. Artists are judged in the categories of originality, musicianship and, most importantly, marketability to the wine-consuming market. The competition is open to the music genres of: jazz, rock, blues, new age, acoustic, country, folk, soft rock, reggae' and adult contemporary.
The Winery Music Awards Elimination Round concert competitions are held on one Saturday each month from June to September, with the Final competition and Awards presentation in October.
Out of the hundreds of song and entry form submissions, five artists are selected to compete in each Elimination Round concert. With four Rounds of competitions, a total of twenty artists will compete in the entire 2007 competition. Artists are judged in three categories - Originality, Musicianship, and Marketability to the wine-consuming public - men and women, aged 21-54. Judging is by a panel of professionals who come from the music, entertainment and wine industries. The top total-scoring artist in each of the four Elimination Rounds will compete in the Final Competition in October, along with two "Wild Card" winners. The Wild Card winners are the two highest scoring artists of all four Elimination Rounds, other than the winners of each individual Elimination Round concert. Therefore, six artists will compete for the Grand Prizes in the Final Competition concert in October.
Founded and produced by Kathy Kelly Productions, Inc., the Winery Music Awards was created out of the growing popularity of quality musical performances at many wineries throughout California. The competition is open only to original music artists who are not under contract or signed agreement with a professional record label or other professional music recording entity at the time of submitting an entry to the 2007 Winery Music Awards and at the time of their performance in any Elimination Round, if selected, or the Final Competition in October, 2007.
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