A panel of independent Kenyan and American judges including ERIC WAINAINA and CESS KARIMI FROM HOMEBOYZ worked to select the 22 most promising of the 300 auditioners from our Songs For Justice to take part in an online contest, where the winner receives the opportunity to record an album and tour with PeaceTones. Each participating musician will upload a song or music video (recorded with PeaceTones’ help in-country). Winners of the contests shall be determined by public vote on PeaceTones’ online voting platform, so that audiences are built not only for the winning artist, but for all participating artists. This contest is a means for artists to practically apply the marketing and technology tools learned in the workshops. The contest will be open to musicians with original music and positive social messages. The contest not only gives publicity to many unknown artists and their amazing works of music, but also helps publicize their messages of struggle, resilience and hope. The contest winner will become a PeaceTones Ambassador, record an album with PeaceTones, and receive 90% of profits from album sales, of which a portion will go to a local community development project of their choosing that is vetted and meets certain criteria. All other contest participants will be provided the opportunity to participate in PeaceTones’ crowdfunding platform, PeaceTones Springboard, in order to fundraise for the recording and release of their own albums, with publicity and fundraising help from PeaceTones. Springoboard will help these artists to find funds for the recording and production of their own albums by accepting donations and pre-selling their yet-to-be-created album. PeaceTones will work with the winning artist to market the album and its message both within Kenya and internationally. The end products will be an arts community with a greater sense of legal and social justice empowerment, an understanding of their responsibilities and power as musicians, and greater knowledge of practical skills in marketing and using technology. TO HELP ONE OF OUR OWN KIBERAN(Emmanuel Odhiambo) WIN THIS, KINDLY CLICK TO THIS DIRRECT LINK AND WE WILL HAVE BUILT KIBERAwoobox/87jnnn/vote/for/5178869 Unl
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:10:29 +0000
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