BBC 6Music has launched a school choir competition with a difference.
Are you the Master of an alternative choir? Are your kids in the coolest school choir around? Do they prefer singing Maximo Park to Mozart? Is your child more 'punk' than 'choirboy'?
BBC6 Music's Weekend Breakfast Show are scouring the UK, looking for the best choral version, by a kids choir, of a song which might appear on their playlist.
Natasha Desborough, presenter of the Weekend Breakfast show, says: "it can be from the current crop of bands we're playing on the show; The Kaisers, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, The Arcade Fire, or it could be a classic, Hendrix track, or something from the Stones, Led Zep, Radiohead or Oasis. We want parents to encourage their kids, we want music teachers to jump on board – it's a great way of making music accessible to kids who are probably more interested in singing Maximo Park than Mozart."
The competition is open to Kids across the UK, Natasha continues: "if you're at school and you want to have a crack at this - get a load of mates together and get rehearsing.'
The winning entry will get to visit the 6Music studios to perform live to a panel of celebrity judges and win two weeks of airplay on the station playlist.
The idea for the competition was sparked by a choral version of The Kaiser Chief's 'I predict a riot', which has been given a new treatment by a Warrington choir, The Cheshire Chord Company. The song was passed on to the choir by the mother of one of the Kaiser Chief's roadies.
Entries via CD or MP3 will be accepted up until the closing date of Friday 30th March. For details on how to enter
Click here.
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