We kindly invite you to take a
part in the International children and Youth Pop Music Festival-Contest in
Aims of the festival-contest:
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To
stimulate youth creativity and communication, and wish to create music and
scenic action all together, cherish love to native country;
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To help
youth and talent music performers to unfold;
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To
popularize entertaining music among children and youth and to pay attention to
Lithuanian music of all the times;
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To form
country entertaining music performers culture and develop music style according
the highest entertaining music criterion;
·
To
motivate heads of youth and children entertaining music collectives share their
experience;
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To expand
children's and youth, heads of theirs collectives view by training personal
singularity and tolerance;
·
To co-operate creatively, shearing music experience with collectives
from foreign countries.
Date and place: 24-26 April, 2009,
Organizer:
Programme of
the contest:
10.00-16.00 Participants’ registration and rehearsal
17.00 Celebratory opening of the festival in
The first day of
festival – contest in Lithuanian Youth Center
20.00-22.00 Consideration of the first day (jury), regale for
participants of the contest
25 April 2009 (Saturday)
10.00-16.00 Participants’ registration and rehearsal
17.00 The second day of festival-contest in Lithuanian youth center (Konstitucijos av.
25, Vilnius)
20.00-22.00 Consideration of the second day (jury), regale for
participants of the contest
26 April 2009 (Sunday)
11.00-13.00 Awards’ ceremony
13.00-15.00 Rehearsal time for
the final concert
16.00-18.00 Closing ceremony of festival –contest and concert in “Forum
palace” Galaxy Hall
Rules of the contest
In this competition can participate Lithuanian and foreign youth and
children collectives: studio, show groups, ensembles playing popular music.
Participants of this festival are divided into 3 age groups:
1. 6-9 year
2. 10-13 year
3. 14-18 year
Organizer invites candidates to festival-contest. They also can be
recommended by Lithuanian and foreign country concert organization, leisure
time organization centers, recording studio, producer.
Theme of this competition - “Assonantest songs
for Lithuania ” – is sacred to Lithuania’s name thousand years anniversary.
Collectives, which take part in competition, play the program, prepared
by themselves.
Show program - up to 10 minutes.
In this program – Lithuanian songs of all the times should be performed
in different modern styles: disco, jazz, folk, country, pop, etc.... Programme should be played by instrumental assent or
musical phonogram, only vocal part and instrumental solo part should be played
“life”
Application forms for taking part in this competition, description of
collective, color collective photo (10x15) of good quality, compact disc or
audiocassettes have to be sent to organizer not later than 25 February 2009.
When organizers get your application form, they will send you invitation
and detailed information about festival-contest.
The participants of this contest will be qualify by authoritative
international musicians, composer, directors, choreographs and performer of pop
music.
Participants defray travel cost by themselves.
Food and accommodation costs are paid by the organizer of the festival.
Membership fee for one participant - 10 EUR.
Awards
The winner will award Grand Prix, three main prizes and special prizes.
All participants will get diplomas, and keepsakes, prizes from sponsors.
In case if participants (collective) resign the prize, it transfers to
the fund of the festival or, according the decision made by commission, it can
be presented for other participants of the same contest. Collective has a right
to resign the prize by writing an application for the organizers of contest not
later than 1-2 months after the end of final event.
Rights of organizers
Organizer of the contest has all radio and TV translation, retranslation
rights on the festival time and after festival. Organizer can eliminate
collectives from festival-contest collectives or participants, which do not
obey the rules, schedule of repetition and concert.
Organizer of the festival has all (audio and video) distribution rights.
History of the festival
The first country youth and children pop music festival-contest “Popkopėčios 2000” (Pop-ladder 2000) was held on
the 25th-26th of March and 8th of April, 2000 in the Lithuanian youth center.
The head of the festival Jury was singer Rūta Morozovaitė. 21 music collectives from various cities
and districts of Lithuania took a part in the festival-contest. A lot of mass media, such as Lithuanian radio and TV, radio
station “Laisvoji banga”
and “Radiocentras” daily newspapers “Lietuvos
rytas”, “Lietuvos žinios”, “Lietuvos aidas”, were writing about this festival. Over 600 participants
took a part in the first festival and
sang 112 songs. 1400 viewers were
listening festival program and final
concert. Especially the song “Mūsų daina” (muzic J.Cechanavičius, words J. Liniauskas)
sounded very lively. Songs about Vilnius contest attained the special ovation.
All the best songs of festival- contest
“Popkopėčios 2000” are recorded in
the compact disc and audio cassette “Geriausios Lietuvos vaikų dainos” (“The best
songs of Lithuanian children”) which was presented on 19th of November 2000.
The biggest Lithuanian daily newspaper “Lietuvos rytas” wrote about us in March 2000: ,,“Popkopėčios”
- the first children's groups music contest, which aim is not only to rank the
level of young singers but also to try to raise it up. “Kopėčios”
became the symbol not only of this contest, but it became the symbol of young
singers, who want to improve in music.
,,Songs about Vilnius were very original and well prepare, they livened
festival and showed that children can
perform hard composition, not only children's song."
The second country children's and youth pop music festival-contest “Popkopėčios” followed on 24th-25th of March 2001.
Celebratory laureate award was in Vilnius City hall, ” White hall”. Over 600 young singers took a part in
festival-contest; collectives played 10 minutes program, which theme was
“Retro, good bye XX century!” The competitive country jury qualified
collectives for 2-contest days. The head of jury was composer Mindaugas Tamošiūnas. Over 1500 viewers were watching this
festival. It was very broad covered by country
national television, which
prepared even 3 special programs about young talents and biggest country
daily newspaper “Lietuvos
rytas wrote about festival-contest. This contest
shows that there are a lot of talented children who can represent Lithuania in
the similar competition all over the
world. Festival organization committee took a decision to invite to this
festival participants from foreign countries, and the festival could become
international. Organization of this festival on the March and April 2002 held
country promotional project “Kelialapis į popkopėčias 2003”, which took place in various
country regions. Over 500 youth singer took a part in this event and they
represented their new program. 5-country promotional concerts were watched by
1600 viewers. This promotional project is like a bridge, which unites coasts;
the bridge which is necessary to pass that could be possible to improve
festival “Popkopėčios” artistic demand and
demands, which rae raised to participants. New
compact disc “ Geriausios Lietuvos
vaikų dainos- 2” (“
The best Lithuanian children's song-2”)
was presented during this project. -”Take a drop of the sun for
yourself!” This edition represents music
level and youth participants' skills of last contest.
Festival-contest “Popladder” (“Popkopėčios”) became international in 2003.
Collectives from Latvia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Romania, Polland,
Germany and Lithuania demonstrated the wish to participate in this event. This factor
shows the importance and high level of the festival. Authoritative contest
evaluation commission was formed from high-level music specialist from
Lithuania, Latvia and USA. In 2005 travelling “Popladder”
(“Popkopėčios”) visited Gargždai,
Panevėžys, Pabradė
and Vilnius cities. Over 550 participants took part in this project.
Director of festival-contest
Loreta Stasytytė,
Phone number: (+370 ~ 5) 272
5621,
Mob. Number: +370 699 31 412,
e - mail: remido@lvjc.lt
LYC director
Valdas Jankauskas
Lithuanian Youth center
Konstitucijos av.25,
Phone number: (+370 5) 272 5621,
(+370 5) 272 2355, (+370 5) 272 5319,
fax number (+370 5) 272 5651
E-mail remido@lvjc.lt