Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015

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Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015 Aug 4, 2015 11:12:39 GMT ocarolan likes this

Post by Martin on Aug 4, 2015 11:12:39 GMT

Aug 4, 2015 7:09:36 GMT davewhite said:

To choose the three finalist - in the spirit of Masterchef - I'd like each entrant to make a new recording (audio or video) of a piece that they love performing for what ever reason - music from the heart - and post it on their competition thread.

Just for clarity, does this additional piece still need to be original, or can it be anything?

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Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015 Aug 4, 2015 11:16:20 GMT ocarolan likes this

Post by davewhite on Aug 4, 2015 11:16:20 GMT

Aug 4, 2015 11:12:39 GMT Martin said:

Just for clarity, does this additional piece still need to be original, or can it be anything?

Martin,

As I said in my post launching the competition "Self compositions would be nice but again not essential". Any piece - self composed or cover - is what I'm looking for but a favourite performance piece. As I said - music from the heart. 8-)

I do want a new recording of it though - done now for this competition and not a re-posting of an existing recording.

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Post by davewhite on Sept 3, 2015 12:45:40 GMT

I have chosen the three finalists and they are in alphabetical order:

Nik Davies
Harlee Deamer
Alex Kirtley

I'll now go into pondering and consulting mode and the winner will be announced in October. Thanks for all of the entries, I've enjoyed the music. 8-)

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Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015 Oct 9, 2015 14:22:40 GMT Martin, ocarolan, and 5 more like this

Post by davewhite on Oct 9, 2015 14:22:40 GMT

Well - as they say on "The Great British Bake Off" and "Masterchef" - it hasn’t been an easy decision to make as the talent and variety of music that all entrants to this competition have produced has been really good and you all have great futures ahead of you. The hard part is that there can only be one winner and after careful consideration I have decided that the winner is:

Nik Davies

Well done Nik but also well done Alex and Harlee for getting this far. :clap:

"Samhradh" - the prize guitar - should be finished later this month and hopefully Keith and I can arrange to meet up with Nik for the presentation.

Thanks again to Martin for letting me host this competition on the Acoustic Soundboard Forum and hopefully there will be more of these to come in the future. 8-)

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Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015 Oct 9, 2015 14:58:20 GMT Martin and ocarolan like this

Post by leoroberts on Oct 9, 2015 14:58:20 GMT

Many congratulations, nikdavies!

Commiserations to the other two finalists - as Dave says there's certainly a future out there for you! And more competitions to come so, once you're over your disappointment, make sure you stick around, eh?

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Young Acoustic Guitar Musicians Competition 2015

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