Practice hard, polish up and come ready to have a good time, because Atlanta Fest is expecting this year to be its best talent search ever. This year, the Atlanta Fest Talent Search has been designed to offer artists the opportunity to let the fans help decide who they want to see perform on Atlanta Fest's Talent Search Stage through an Online and Live Talent Search Competition.
Online and Live Talent Search Competition: Up to 50 artists will be selected through online voting >...
Practice hard, polish up and come ready to have a good time, because Atlanta Fest is expecting this year to be its best talent search ever. This year, the Atlanta Fest Talent Search has been designed to offer artists the opportunity to let the fans help decide who they want to see perform on Atlanta Fest's Talent Search Stage through an Online and Live Talent Search Competition.
Online and Live Talent Search Competition: Up to 50 artists will be selected through online voting to participate in a live competition at Atlanta Fest's Talent Search stage. The first place winner each day will have the opportunity to perform the winning song on the Nature's Own Main Stage at Atlanta Fest that same evening.
Participate in the online voting app powered by Sonicbids.
Live competitions will take place at Stone Mountain Park in metro Atlanta during Atlanta Fest June 14-16, 2012. Selected artists are expected to perform one of the songs submitted using Sonicbids.
Artists chosen as a finalist to appear live at the Atlanta Fest Talent Search, will be notified in May. At that time finalists will be required to send in a competition fee of $100 for solo artists or $150 for bands.
Overall Winner from Atlanta Fest Advances to Christian Festival Association's National Finals: Atlanta Fest's overall will be combined with winners from other Christian Festival Association (CFA)festivals nationwide. These finalists will ultimately be both voted on through a national fan voting page and considered by the CFA National Talent Search panel. National Fan voting will take place between September 15 and October 31. The 2011 CFA National Talent Search Winner will be selected by considering both the fan voting results and panel judges’ voting selection. The ultimate winner of the CFA National Talent Search will be Final winner to be selected and notified by November 7, 2012.
National Winner Receives:
- Full performance slot at each participating 2013 CFA festival (stage and time slot to be determined by each individual festival)
- Inclusion on artist list of each participating 2013 CFA festival
- Featuring of National winner on all participating CFA member festival websites
- Listing on all participating CFA member festival 2013 Facebook pages promoting winner
- 3 songs recorded free in the Chicago area including studio time, tracking and mixing. Artist is responsible for travel/meals/lodging.