Contest

Wednesday April 16, 2014

REGiONAL SEMiFiNALiSTS

Hundreds of thousands of votes have been cast in the CBC's Searchlight competition. Now, it's down to a handful artists in each region. Which one will represent us in the national round? That's up to you.

CBC Music's Grant Lawrence joined Karen Mair to discuss the region's Searchlight finalists. You can listen to Searchlight tracks and vote at cbcmusic.ca/searchlight.

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Categories: CBC Radio, Contest, Music/Artist

Wednesday December 18, 2013

Eddy Quinn - CBC's SongQuest

He's made the cut and is hoping to score in the top ten. We talked to musician Eddie Quinn about making the top 50 in CBC's Hockey Night in Canada SongQuest.

It's between him and 9 other songwriters, and Eddy could still use your vote. We reached him earlier and I asked Eddy why he wanted to enter SongQuest. Here is a link to Eddy's song "City of Champions", and you can vote there too.

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Categories: CBC Music, Contest, Music/Artist

Tuesday September 10, 2013

Forever Strong - PEI 2014 Song Search

We've got a new tune for you to carry with you through the decades. It's the official theme song for 2014. Out of 79 entries, they pared the list down to TEN, a very impressive list of ten finalists in the PEI 2014 song search. That list included Tim Chaisson, Gordie Belsher, Paper Lions, Colour Code and many more.

But today Premier Robert Ghiz revealed the winning song, which will be the theme song for 2014 celebrations. "Forever Strong," was written by the husband-and-wife team of Mike Ross and Nicole Bellamy.

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