In celebration of Earth Day, the Earth Day Network, Sonicbids and Musician’s Friend want to hear your best "green" song. Submit a track that that shows your social responsibility, dedication to the environmental movement or your love for our planet Earth. As long as your tracks are innovative, inspiring, celebrate the Earth – and endorse the development of a green world & economy - we want to hear them. Submissions are open to artists worldwide.
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In celebration of Earth Day, the Earth Day Network, Sonicbids and Musician’s Friend want to hear your best "green" song. Submit a track that that shows your social responsibility, dedication to the environmental movement or your love for our planet Earth. As long as your tracks are innovative, inspiring, celebrate the Earth – and endorse the development of a green world & economy - we want to hear them. Submissions are open to artists worldwide.
In early April, all tracks will be included on the Music for the Earth download site, where your fans – and millions of others around the world who are celebrating Earth Day - will be able to download your tracks. The top 20 artist with the most downloads will move on to be reviewed by a panel of music industry judges. One artist will win a Gibson Jackson Browne Model 1 Acoustic Guitar (valued at $5,799), courtesy of Gibson and Musician's Friend, and will be featured on the Earth Day Network homepage, getting in front of millions of visitors. Another two artists selected by the panel of judges will also be featured on the Earth Day Network website.
Music for the Earth is a held in partnership with the Earth Day Network’s Arts for the Earth™.
About the Prize:
In addition to his legacy of advocacy for social and environmental justice, Jackson Browne has been one of America’s premier artists, writing and recording enormously popular, important and influential music since the 1960s. In 1979, Browne, along with fellow artists Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and John Hall, founded MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy). So it is fitting that the Music for the Earth Grand Prize winner will get a guitar designed by an environmental activist like Jackson Browne. The Gibson Jackson Browne Model 1 Acoustic Guitar is a custom beauty that pays homage to the fabulous Gibsons of the 1930s, and was uniquely designed with premium tonewoods selected for their renewable source. It features a deep body of English walnut and a Red Spruce top, yielding powerful, resonant lows and a full high-end. The beautifully balanced tone is warm, musical and natural- perfect for the singer/songwriter.
About Musician’s Friend:
Musician’s Friend, Inc., is a global top 50 Internet retailer and the largest direct marketer of musical instruments in the United States. With more than 80,000 unique products for sale, the Musician’s Friend delivers a wide range of musical products, including guitars, basses, amplifiers, keyboards, live sound, recording equipment, drums, percussion, woodwind, brasswind and orchestral stringed instruments, as well as related accessories that are marketed through its award-winning catalog and website, http://www.musiciansfriend.com.
About the Earth Day Network:
Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. For more information visit: http://www.earthday.org.
A Billion Acts of Green®:
From greening schools to hosting town hall discussions on clean energy investment and green jobs, Earth Day Network leads its network in thousands of Earth Day events and actions worldwide each year. To catalyze global environmental activism, Earth Day Network has chosen A Billion Acts of Green® as the theme for Earth Day 2011. At over 40 million actions to date, A Billion Acts of Green®–the largest environmental service campaign in the world–inspires and rewards simple individual acts and larger organizational initiatives that further the goal of measurably reducing carbon emissions and supporting sustainability. The goal is to register one billion actions in advance of the global Earth Summit in Rio in 2012. For more information visit: http://act.earthday.org.