June 24, 2017 - As of 12:01am MST June 25th, 2017 in North America, fans all over the globe will be fastidiously voting for the next Starlight Music Chronicles (SMC) Artist of the Year.
In June
2016, Starlight Music Chronicles launched the first ever Artist of the Year
online voting event in two categories: TEEN and ADULT. This included all Artist
of the Month winners from August 2015 to May 2016 and resulted in thousands of fans
voting globally. Winners in the Adult category were IAMWARFACE at a whopping
22,000+ votes followed by Olivia Penalva winning the teen category with over
5000 votes. Both Artists have occupied a spot on our website and social media platforms
over the last 12 months and they are about to pass the torch onto our 2017
Artist of the Year.
Now in our
second season of this competition, the event has most definitely evolved and the stakes are even higher. The winnings, voting panel, and even our Judge panel has amped-up from
five to seven prominent and notable music industry peers who possess valuable
experience in the areas of Artist development, music journalism, and radio. In
fact, one of our Judges is a Grammy Award-winning Artist! (see our Judges bios
below)
The Prize
Benefits
Our winner
will take home a VIP Scholarship with ArtistMax (see details for the next
ArtistMax event below), as well as a 12-month promotional period running from
July 2017-June 2018. In this time, the winner will be promoted on the SMC
website and social media, have three Radio interviews with Limehead Radio (our
affiliates in the UK who are streaming live on the SMC SPOTLIGHT website), and have
two Social Media Takeover events on the SMC and Limehead Radio platforms. This
is our way of helping the Artist promote new music, campaigns, events, and
tours throughout their ‘reigning’ year.
Voting
This
is a 45% fan voted/55% Judge voted event. On June
25th, a poll will open up for Registered Fan Voting. Because there are three
ways of registering a vote (Twitter, Facebook, and G+) Family, Friends, and
Fans of the Artists competing can vote a total of 3 times for their fave in the
five days of the event. Fan voting
begins June 25th @ 12:01pm MST in North America and ends June 20th 11:59pm MST
in North America. A link will be posted to the voting poll in a PINNED POST at
the top of this event. It will also be shared everywhere on our Social Media.
ArtistMax
SMC is a
global media ambassador for ArtistMax and with Olivia Penalva giving rave reviews
following her participation at the March 2017 event in Los Angeles, California
we are confident that our next Artist of the Year will see great value in this
event. In fact, at the March event, Olivia met with legendary Producer Mr. Ken
Caillat (Fleetwood Mac), and Grammy Award Winning Composer David Foster. Having
a VIP Scholarship available to our winning Artist means huge opportunities to
network and develop their music career further.
ArtistMax
founders and mentors hold credits for Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat, John Mayer,
Jennifer Lopez, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Paul
McCartney, and so many more. Their mentors and guests have achieved dozens of
Grammy awards and have been responsible for over 100 million albums sold
worldwide. Each ArtistMax workshop heralds a new celebrity artist and a
Grammy-winning Producer.
Today,
ArtistMax released this press release to their social media platform:
“Our next ArtistMax will be 4 days long, Fri-Mon over Labor Day Weekend!!!!We have added many new interactive panels to our line-up including group songwriting, social media feedback and break out panel, LETS TALK PRODUCTION (4 of your songs are reviewed roundtable by a group of esteemed industry vets), A Networking Party with some of LA's hottest producers, managers, booking agents, label execs, film directors and more, thrift shop field trip with celeb stylists, and so much more!!!! PLUS... our surprise celeb guests... means this next event will be insane!!!!We would like to welcome back all of our AM Alumni with our new AM Alumni Scholarship. Scholarship has a non-transferable, non-refundable value of $499 off of the normal program price, and cannot be used with any other discounts. From there, those that are fully registered will have an opportunity to submit a one page essay for a full scholarship.We can start a housing thread on here so some of you can share rooms if you like.As most of you know, we work really hard to make sure you guys have an amazingly fun, educational and rewarding weekend. With most of our attendees on some form of scholarship, we rely heavily on word of mouth as our main marketing source. Whether you are able to attend or not, we ask that you please give a shout out to ArtistMax and help us continue to grow this amazingly talented community. We are very excited to present to you, The Future of ArtistMax.”
Find out more about ArtistMax (here).
Limehead
Radio
In April
2016, we added yet another valuable prize to our roster. Limehead Radio in the
UK reached out to us to see how they could also become involved with our Artist
of the Month and Artist of the Year events by way of supporting our winning
Artists on their platform via interviews and radio play of their music. In
addition, they have agreed to coincide a Social Media takeover on July 31st,
2017, the same month we announce our winner and host a Social Media takeover on
our own platform (July 15th, 2017).
Find out more about Limehead Radio (here)
The 2017 Artist of the Year Artist Competitors
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The Judges
Candice
Anne Marshall CEO/Editor Starlight Music Chronicles (SMC)
Candice
Anne Marshall is a Music Journalist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada who began
her career by studying Journalism, Photography and Graphic Design at Grant
MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is the CEO and Editor in
Chief at Starlight Music Chronicles Magazine & Entertainment Website
interviewing some of the most notable professionals in the Music, Fashion, and
Film industries. She has expanded on this career and is working as a
Freelance/Contributor on many projects for Artists in the areas of Music, Film,
Fashion and Lifestyle. She advocates for Non-Profit Organizations Globally in
the areas of Branding, Social Media Campaigns, Biographies for websites,
Articles in addition to Photography, Photo Editing and Graphics. (full bio here)
Some of the
articles/content/photography/branding for Music Artists that Candice has
written for/supported/interviewed are included on several forums including
Magazine & Newspaper publications, Blogsites, and Webpages are: Hedley,
Theory of a Deadman, The Road Hammers, Rex Goudie (Canadian Idol Fame), The
Headpins, Beverley Mahood, Shane Yellowbird, Taylor Swift, Clayton Bellamy
(Solo Artist | The Road Hammers), Adam Gregory, Candice Ryan, Rachel Woznow,
Tupelo Honey, Bryan Finlay, Palaye Royale,
High Love Band (formerly, REND), Luke Potter, Johnny Marr (The Smith’s
fame), Gary Numan, Olivia Wik, Bleu McAuley, Paul Woida, Andrew Scott, Hayley
Richman, Little Crow, Jason McCoy (The Road Hammers), Nic Neufeld, Michelle
Mollineux, Jasmine Singh, LIGHTS, The Hollywood Vampires, Nim Vind, Shay
Esposito, Olivia Rose, IAMWARFACE, Jamie Lawson, Ed Sheeran, Reeve Carney,
Scott Patterson (SMITHRADIO), Meghan Patrick, Olivia Penalva, Stuart Epps,
Mario McNulty, New Mayans, Mateus Ward, Justin Ward, After The Calm, Lia Cole,
Ari Herstand, The Fontaines, Dan Davidson, The 1975, Platinum Blonde, The
Standstills, Joshua Shultz (Producer/CEO Bellus Magazine), Chelsea Debo
(Actress/Model), Carly Jo Jackson (America’s Got Talent fame), Meresha
(Billboard top 40 chart fame), Matt Lande, Narrow Plains, Jet Force Gemini,
Christina Taylor, Ships Have Sailed, Ashlinn Gray, Lucien Dante, Dani Rosenoer
(Three Days Grace fame), Brielle Von Hugel, The Upset Victory, Tom Bertram,
Luke Wade, The Roxy Suicide, Swerve, Radio Drive, Brian Mackey, The Moon Kids,
Natalie Jean, Carolina Magnolia, Barley Station, Kaylin, Ryan Inglis, Redvers
Bailey, Wall Of Orange, Sallie Mood, John Ferriter (The Tearaways | The Alternative), TAMSYN, Meresha,
Codie Prevost, Luke Wade, Hannah Clive, DaveIt Ferris, Fashion Designer Melany
Rowe, and Flash Jam to name a few and it is expanding every day.
Bridget
Gardiner | ArtistMax
From Studio
Manager of a recording studio for 9 years to Campus President at a recording
college for 5 years, Bridge has been instrumental in shaping the next
generation of music taste-makers. She is the CEO and founder of Buddha Global
Consulting, LLC. Established in 2006, Buddha Global is a global networking and
business development company that focuses and consults on project management in
the creative and tech industries.
Special
Highlights: Published Lupus Author, Elected VP of Industry Relations for Los
Angeles Women in Music since 2014. Created and Produced annual star-studded
NAMM panel for the last 5 years, ongoing. Created a National Lupus Support
Group that has over 1k in lupus followers alone. Currently working to change it
to a non-profit status.
Her client
/company roster has included Producers, Authors, Videographers, Recording
Studios, Music Schools, A record label, A start-up Medical spa, and consulting
for various one-off projects, tech firms, events and educational training
seminars.
Amrit Sond | Grammy Award Winning Artist
GRAMMY
Award Winner & Solid Air Records (USA) Amrit Sond has graced the same
billing alongside some of the world’s most renowned Guitarist’s on the scene
today; Dominic Miller (STING), Hugh Burns (George Michael), Ronnie Johnson (Van
Morrison, Leo Sawyer).
Born and
raised in Nairobi, Kenya, he was exposed to African Folk Music at a very early
age, and, being of Asian origin, Indian Music was always the backdrop of his
family home life. He later studied Art and his family moved to the Middle East
(Kuwait) where he then became interested in Arabic and eastern music. This
coupled with the African and Indian Music influences that he grew up with, has
helped shape his unique compositions.
His unique
contemporary instrumental music draws on elements of World Music, Jazz &
Classical all honed into a highly refined and melodically driven compositional
approach.
Michael
McKenna | Retired Radio & Club DJ
Voting
Member at Neilsen Ratings
Voting
Member at Josie Music Awards
Owner-operator
at McKenna Reviews
Judge/Contributing
Writer at Starlight Music Chronicles
Studied
Journalism at Univ of Maine -Kittery
Studied
Business Administration & Accounting at Commonwealth of PA
Mark
Richards | CEO | Limehead Radio
Mark
started the road to radio as many presenters do, by being the singer in a band.
Way back in 2006 when he sported dyed black hair in a ponytail and enough
eyeliner to color in the moon Mark discovered what it was like being in an
unsigned band, making music and struggling to find a platform for it. This is
what eventually led to Mark and a group of like-minded friends launching
Limehead Radio. Mark founded Limehead Entertainment in 2010 as a live events
company, holding their first gig in Portsmouth which was a huge success.
Eventually Mark saw the potential audience of an online radio station and
decided in 2011 to pursue that avenue. Since then Mark has been working with
the Limehead team and all the amazing people he has met along the way to grow
the audience for the music he plays.
Mike Lang | Radio | Music Director
Mike has
over 25 years-experience in every facet of the radio industry, most recently
several years as Music Director and mid-day host at 106.9 The Wolf in Nanaimo,
BC.
He has also
had stints as booking agent/media liaison for a handful of known and lesser
known artists. In addition to that Mike
is a sound engineer and has been known to perform as well.
Pursuing
his own dreams, he has recently quite literally sold his possessions in order
to travel the world.
Carol
Kaplan | SMC Contributor | Communications Consultant for Creatives
Owner/Founder of C A Kaplan Independent Services
Communications
Consultant for Creatives, Small Businesses, Consultants, Entrepreneurs, and
Non-Profit Organizations
Background
in Advertising, Marketing, PR, Sales, Social Media Promotion.
Freelance
Writer specializing in the Arts, Music, Creativity, Personal Growth &
Development.
Freelance
Photographer & Artist
Contributor
for Starlight Music Chronicles
BFA in Graphic
Communications/Journalism from University of Houston, Texas, USA
Follow the Artist of the Year Event (here) & be a part of SMC history by voting in our next AOY Winner. Our Voting Poll will be posted as a LINK in the event at 12:01am MST in North America. Full Rules are listed in the 'about' section of the event.
Good Luck to ALL of our EXCEPTIONAL Artists!
