Contest: Remix Triangle Music, Win Cash!

Mash it up!

With all the buzz surrounding our latest release, Christine Balfa Plays the Triangle, we couldn’t help but have a little fun with it. We’re hoping fans, musicians, and others who were just kind of accidentally exposed to this can help!

One thing is undeniable about Christine Balfa’s Triangle playing—she’s got skills. Reviewers from The New York Times to offBeat Magazine to about.com have sung her praises based on this release. While intended as a gag, the album’s usefulness as a glorified metronome cannot be denied.

Now is your chance to have Christine Balfa in your rhythm section. We are asking you to make a song for us. Using the hit single from the Triangle album, The Balfa Waltz, we want you to show us what you can do. That doesn’t mean just play the actual Balfa Waltz with Christine’s track mixed in, it means make up something completely original. It can be Folk, Rock, Indie, House, whatever you want! Heck, even if you’re a complete amateur with a Mac, throw it in Garage Band and sing us your crappy lovesong you wrote for that girl in high school that was way out of your league.

What do you get if you win? A check for a whopping $100 dollars, the full Valcour catalog (6 albums), and who knows, maybe we can get you some air time with our trusted radio friends. No guarantees on that last part, but we’ll try! Just consider this the inflated Valcour stimulus package. Our little way of helping out in troubled economic times.

Regardless, we’ll post the top four or five songs right here on our website, as well as links from our Myspace and Facebook pages, just to make it official.

(if you don’t see them already, click the “continue reading” link below to view the Terms of the Contest)

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Terms of the Contest

Entries due by Friday, March 27th at 5PM.

Entry track duration must be 5 minutes or less.

Any one entrant can submit up to five songs.

You must be at least 18 years of age to enter (if you are in a band, at least one person has to be over 18) or else have a legal guardian submit your entry for you.

Winners are picked strictly based on the subjective opinion of our in-house judges. Valcour Records is not obligated to publish any song or pay anyone we don’t feel like  paying. In fact, Valcour Records is not obligated to do anything that has anything to do with the contest described in this post. You will just have to trust us.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 1st.

Instructions

1. Download “The Balfa Waltz” to your computer:
sd2 Format (38 Megs, compatible with most any digital music production software)
mp3 Format (8 Megs, in case you want to just play the music in the background while you scream and beat on pots and pans into your old tape recorder)

2. Make your own song with it

3. E-mail your song in mp3 or m4a format to bonjour [at] valcourrecords [dot] com by March 27th at 5PM. In the email, include your actual name, your rock and roll pseudonym (if applicable), your email address, your snail-mail home address, a phone number where you can be reached, and song/musician credits (f you are a band, please submit this information for all members). If you are having a legal guardian submit for you, please include their name, email address,  snail-mail home address, and a phone number where they can be reached. Failure to include this information can result in disqualification.

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Best of luck! We can’t wait to hear your entries!