Glastonbury Festival has announced details of its emerging talent competition.
The winners of the annual contest will get the opportunity to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at the festival, as well as an award of £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS foundation. The aim of the award is to help take artists’ songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize.
The competition is free to enter and is now open to new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre. Artists can enter the 2017 competition for one week only from 9:00 am next Monday until 5:00 pm on 6th February 2017 via the Glastonbury website.
Past entrants have included R&B singer Izzy Bizu, who was nominated on the BBC Sound Of 2016 poll and for a BRITs Critics’ Choice award, and fast-rising rapper Isaiah Dreads. Declan McKenna, who won in 2015 has subsequently signed with Columbia and been longlisted in the BBC’s Sound Of 2017 poll. Last year’s ETC winners were politically-charged Merseyside band She Drew The Gun, who have since released their critically-acclaimed debut album.
