Uke-can-do-it Competition

The NZ Ukulele Trust Uke-Can-Do-It songwriting competition is open now, for entries from students in years 1-13 in New Zealand.
 
Please share this with your students and encourage them to submit an entry before 4 Nov 2022. The winning song will be recorded and published in the Kiwileles Songbank resource, to be shared with thousands of tamariki across Aotearoa in 2023. 
 
Please note, you do not have to be part of the Kiwileles programme to enter this competition.
 
Click here for the entry form: UKE-CAN-DO-IT 2022
 
Songwriting Competition Rules:
  • The work must be an original song, featuring the ukulele. It cannot be an arrangement or adaptation of another song.
  • The work must be suitable for Kiwileles to sing and play.
  • Entry is open to all students in years 1-13 in New Zealand.
  • Entries are limited to one song per entrant
  • We require a song sheet showing the lyrics and chords, accompanied by an mp3 recording (if you’d prefer someone else to sing or play in the recording that is okay)
Here is the link to last year’s winning song by Anna Feillet from Otago Girls High School in Dunedin: My Imagination and Tomuri-te-awa Spicer’s winning entry from 2020: Different
 
** Entries to be received by 5pm Friday 4th November 2022 *  Sorry, we are unable to accept late entries **
 

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