Think you have what it takes to make it in the music business? If you are a young musician aged between 12 and 18, now is your chance to enter the 2009 Irish Youth Music Awards (IYMAs ).
Each youth club region across Ireland, including the Midlands Youth Service, is currently inviting bands and solo artists to enter the first round local play-offs. Young people in each region will select a band or act to represent them at the IYMAs in Dublin on April 4, 2009.
The Irish Youth Music Awards were founded in 2007 with the aim of giving young musicians and those interested in working in the music business the opportunity to develop their creative and collaborative skills, and to access the knowledge and advice of some of Ireland’s most respected music industry professionals. The end goal of the 22 competing regions is to win the Irish Youth Music Award 2009.
In the run up to the IYMAs, each region will form a ‘management team’, who will work to promote their band or act before they compete at the Dublin finals. Team members will be responsible for all aspects of promotion of their chosen act, from photography to publicity, staging to lighting, sound to styling.
The Irish Youth Music Awards 2009 will take place at The Village, Dublin on April 4, 2009. Along with a specially commissioned award, the successful group and their management team will also win the opportunity for themselves and the bands from their region to record an album of their songs, recorded and mixed by some of Ireland’s top producers and engineers.
The judging panel at the IYMAs 2009 will include Willie Kavanagh, MD EMI Records Ireland; Jackie Hayden, Hot Press Magazine; Aileen Galvin, Entertainment Architects Music PR; Sinead Ni Mhordha, Phantom FM DJ, plus a number of very special guests, to be announced nearer the awards.
Those wishing to enter the IYMAs should contact their local youth service, check out www.youthworkireland.ie, or email [email protected].
Westmeath enquiries should be directed to Michael McLoughlin at Youth Work Ireland on (01 ) 8729933 or [email protected]. Alternatively you can contact Eileen Kelly at Midlands Youth Services on (090 ) 6477075 or [email protected].
