| For the 28th year the KERRVILLE MUSIC FOUNDATION hosts the NEW FOLK
CONCERTS, where during the Kerrville Folk Festival on Saturday and
Sunday, May 28 & 29, thirty-two writer- performers will be invited to
share their original songs. Then, a week later, on Sunday, June 6, six
AWARD WINNERS will return to perform 20 minutes of their original songs
and receive their $150 Awards from the ASCAP Fund and the Townsend
Miller Endowment Fund, plus $100 each from the Mary Jane Tellez
Memorial Fund. All of these concerts will be staged at the Outdoor
Theater at Quiet Valley Ranch on Highway 16 South of Kerrville.
Established at the suggestion of Peter Yarrow in 1972, these annual
concerts are one of the high points of the year for songwriters from
all across the country. 1999 judges selecting the six Award Winners are
Eric Taylor (Columbus, TX), Charles John Quarto (Nashville, TN), and
1998 New Folk Winner Cindy Greene (Nashville, TN).
Here are the guidelines:
- All writer-performers are invited to send the Foundation one
rewound cassette (without box) of two original songs on the same
track of the cassette.
- These previously unrecorded songs may be performed by the
writer alone or by a group which must include the writer or writers.
- Do not send any lead sheets, publicity, bios, etc.
- The songs submitted must be the songs performed on the
concerts if you are selected.
- The writer(s) retain all rights to the songs.
- No writer who appears on the main stage with billed performer
prior to May 31, may appear at New Folk.
- Anyone may enter except those billed as performers in 1999
or those who have been selected for New Folk for the past two
consecutive years.
- All tapes are mailed back to the writers prior to May Ist with
the list of winners.
- The Foundations selects 32 tapes and will invite those writers
to be guests of the festival during the five-day period May 27-31.
- 16 finalists will perform each day, Saturday and Sunday,
May 29 & 30 to provide the judges with an opportunity to select six
Award Winners who perform at the Award Winners Concert,
Sunday, June 6.
- Do not enter if you cannot fulfill all three concert
opportunities.
- All tapes must be accompanied by an $12 entry fee payable
to the Kerrville Music Foundation. If sending by U.S. Mail send to
P.O. Box 1466, Kerrville, TX 78029. If using any other shipping
service send to 5600 Medina Hwy., Kerrville, TX 78028. Only the
first 600 entries received before midnight, April 1st, will be
accepted. All others will be refused.
- Include your name, address, zip code and phone number on
your cassette, so you can be notified and your tape returned.
- In addition to the 32 finalists, up to 10 regional writers may
be selected to appear with one of their songs at the Ballad Tree (3-5
p.m.) May 27 or 28. Those selected for the Ballad Tree will receive
a single free pass to the festival for that day only.
- Scholarships for $72 of the $144 tuition to the June 1-3
Songwriters School are available for as many as ten of the 32
finalists and are awarded on a first-come basis to those paying the
balance of $72 to the Foundation prior to May 20.
- Finalists will receive two five-day passes for May 27-31;
those receiving scholarships will receive additional passes June 1-
3; the six Award Winners will receive passes through June 6; those
selected for the Ballad Tree will receive a single one-day pass for
the day of their Tree. All those selected may camp free for the
duration of their pass. Others participating with you, if any, must
purchase a ticket to be admitted with you. All cars in the camp
grounds pay $7 per day, but free parking is provided in the parking
meadow.
- Any rules that are misprinted or printed incomplete in other
publications are not official and we take no responsibility for any
disqualification resulting from not following the complete
instructions listed above.
Folk Festival dates are May 27 - June 13 (18 days). To receive
a brochure of the complete schedule, please call (830) 257-3600.
You will be notified before May 1 st. |