
26th Annual
NEW FOLK CONCERTS
May 24 & 25 June 1, 1997

For the 26th year the KERRVILLE MUSIC FOUNDATION hosts the NEW
FOLK CONCERTS, where during the Kerrville Folk Festival on Saturday and
Sunday, May 24 & 25, thirty-two writer-performers will be invited to share
their original songs. Then, a week later, on Sunday, June 1, 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
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. 1997 judges selecting the six Award Winners are David
Amram(New York), 1991 New Folk Winner, Alisa Fineman(Monterrey Bay Area),
and 1996 New Folk Award Winner John McVey(Nashville).
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 26, may appear at New Folk.
- Anyone may enter except those billed as performers in 1997 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 1st with the
list of winners.
- The Foundation selects 32 tapes and will invite those writers to be
guests of the festival during the five-day period May 22-26.
- 16 finalists will perform each day, Saturday and Sunday, May 24 & 25
to provide the judges with an opportunity to select six Award Winners who
perform at the Award Concert, Sunday, June 1.
- Do not enter if you cannot fulfill all three concert opportunities.
- All tapes must be accompanied by a $10 entry fee payable to the
Kerrville Music Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 1466, Kerrville, TX. 78029 or
shipped to New Folk, 5600 Medina Highway, Kerrville, TX. 78028. Only the
first 600 entries received before Midnight, April 1st, will be accepted.
- Include your name, address, zip code 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
22 or 23. 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 May 27-30 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 22-26; those
receiving scholarships will receive additional passes May 27-30; the six
Award Winners will receive passes through June 1; 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 campgrounds pay $6 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 22-June 8 (18 days). To receive a brochure of
the complete schedule, please call (210) 257-3600. You will be notified
before May 1st.
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