Current Festivals

[64Guitars]

This topic will be used for information and questions about current festivals. I'm making it sticky so it will be easy to find. Please restrict questions and comments to the current festivals only. There are other topics for festival suggestions and general comments about festivals that aren't specifically about the current festivals.

To learn how to submit a song for a current festival, see the following guide:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=13

[64Guitars]

Voting is closed for the July/August 2012 festivals. The winners are:



and




StonesFest is for covers of songs by The Rolling Stones.

CollabFest is for collaborations by three or more Songcrafters members. Why three? Well, I thought it would be good to encourage everyone to seek out more people to collaborate with. Instead of collaborating with the same member(s) you've collaborated with in the past, why not approach someone you've never collaborated with before? By doing so, you'll build up your group of potential collaborators for future projects. Also, I like the idea of virtual "groups" collaborating, where each person plays one or more parts, rather than one person multitracking most of the song and just using their collaborator for one or two parts. It would be cool if one or more of these collaborations spawns a permanent new virtual group like Jemima's Kite or Stepping Stone.

If you collaborate with three or more Songcrafters members on a Rolling Stones song, it will be included in both festival jukeboxes.

As I've said before, Songcrafters has always been about the music our members are making currently. This is especially true for our festivals. So, starting today, all festival submissions must be songs that were recorded specifically for the current festival. We'll no longer be accepting songs recorded before the festival started. The idea of our festivals is to inspire our members to record something new which they might not have recorded otherwise. The jukebox is for those new recordings and not for older recordings which just happen to fit the theme of the festival.

[SwanSong]

OK thanks so much appreciate the info...look for the upload in covers later today..
i think u will find this a unique original cover..the best to you NEIL.!

[64Guitars]

Voting is closed for the September/October 2012 festivals. The winners are:

BeatlesFest II

and

SpaceFest

Please don't post your entries until the festivals start on September 1 at 00:00 UTC. In the meantime, there's still a couple of days left for StonesFest and CollabFest.

[Gnasty]

BEATLES IN SPACE! HELL YEAH BABY!!!

[kenny mac]

When I click on the beatlefest 2 I see songs from before the 1st of september ,is this the norm?

[64Guitars]

When I click on the beatlefest 2 I see songs from before the 1st of september ,is this the norm?

It's because it's a sequel festival. Whenever we have a sequel to a previous festival, I will include all of the songs posted since the previous festival of the same name. The first BeatlesFest ran till October 16, 2010. So I've included all Beatles songs posted after Oct 16, 2010 in the BeatlesFest 2 jukebox.

This only applies to sequel festivals. New festivals, such as SpaceFest, will always start empty.

[64Guitars]

Updated 2012-10-27

Here's where we currently stand on the remaining Beatles albums:

                                                   Done         Needed
A Hard Day's Night (1964)                       10/13   76.9 %      3
Past Masters - Volume Two                       11/15   73.3 %      4
Revolver (1966)                                 10/14   71.4 %      4
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)     9/13   69.2 %      4
Let It Be (1970)                                 7/12   58.3 %      5
Help! (1965)                                     8/14   57.1 %      6
Magical Mystery Tour                             5/11   45.5 %      6
The Beatles (aka the White Album) (1968)        23/30   76.7 %      7
Please Please Me (1963)                          7/14   50.0 %      7
Past Masters - Volume One                        9/18   50.0 %      9
With The Beatles (1963)                          4/14   28.6 %     10
Yellow Submarine (1969)                          3/13   23.1 %     10
Beatles for Sale (1964)                          3/14   21.4 %     11

Abbey Road (1969)                               17/17  100.0 %      0
Rubber Soul (1965)                              14/14  100.0 %      0

The following songs are needed to complete the albums:

A Hard Day's Night

Side 2
1. "Any Time at All"
2. "I'll Cry Instead"
6. "I'll Be Back"
Past Masters - Volume Two

Side 1:
6. "The Inner Light"

Side 2
2. "Don't Let Me Down"
4. "Old Brown Shoe"
7. "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
Revolver

Side 1:
4. "Love You To"

Side 2
1. "Good Day Sunshine"
4. "Doctor Robert"
5. "I Want to Tell You"
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Side 1:
4. "Getting Better"
6. "She's Leaving Home"

Side 2
4. "Good Morning Good Morning"
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
Let It Be

Side 1:
2. "Dig a Pony"
4. "I Me Mine"
5. "Dig It"
7. "Maggie Mae"

Side 2
4. "For You Blue"
Help!

Side 1:
2. "The Night Before"
4. "I Need You"
5. "Another Girl"
6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl"

Side 2
3. "You Like Me Too Much"
7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
Magical Mystery Tour

Side 1:
1. "Magical Mystery Tour"
3. "Flying"
4. "Blue Jay Way"
5. "Your Mother Should Know"

Side 2
3. "Penny Lane"
5. "All You Need Is Love"
The Beatles (aka the White Album)

Side 1:
2. "Dear Prudence"
3. "Glass Onion"
4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"

Side 2
1. "Martha My Dear"

Side 3
5. "Sexy Sadie"

Side 4
5. "Revolution 9"

Please Please Me

Side 1:
4. "Chains"
5. "Boys"
6. "Ask Me Why"

Side 2
2. "P.S. I Love You"
3. "Baby It's You"
5. "A Taste of Honey"
6. "There's a Place"
Past Masters - Volume One

Side 1:
3. "Thank You Girl"
5. "I'll Get You"
8. "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand"
9. "Sie Liebt Dich"

Side 2
2. "I Call Your Name"
3. "Slow Down"
6. "She's a Woman"
7. "Bad Boy"
8. "Yes It Is"
With The Beatles

Side 1:
1. "It Won't Be Long"
2. "All I've Got to Do"
4. "Don't Bother Me"
5. "Little Child"
7. "Please Mister Postman"

Side 2
2. "Hold Me Tight"
3. "You Really Got a Hold on Me"
4. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
5. "Devil in Her Heart"
6. "Not a Second Time"
Yellow Submarine

Side 1:
2. "Only a Northern Song"
3. "All Together Now"
6. "All You Need Is Love"

Side 2
1. "Pepperland"
2. "Sea of Time"
3. "Sea of Holes"
4. "Sea of Monsters"
5. "March of the Meanies"
6. "Pepperland Laid Waste"
7. "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland"
Beatles for Sale

Side 1:
2. "I'm a Loser"
3. "Baby's in Black"
4. "Rock and Roll Music"
5. "I'll Follow the Sun"
6. "Mr. Moonlight"
7. "Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"

Side 2
2. "Words of Love"
4. "Every Little Thing"
5. "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
6. "What You're Doing"
7. "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby"

[64Guitars]

Updated the list (in the message above this one) showing which Beatles songs have not yet been covered by anyone.

Only three more songs needed to complete "A Hard Day's Night". There are still four days left in BeatlesFest 2, in case anyone wants to squeeze in another Beatles cover.

And remember, if you start a Beatles song and don't have time to finish it before November 1st, send me a PM to let me know it will be late and I'll watch for it and add it to the festival whenever you get it finished (within reason).

[64Guitars]

Well, it was a very close race but the Nov/Dec festivals are Unplugged Fest 2, beating VarietyFest 2 by one vote, and DiscoFest, beating Home Made Fest by one vote.


Unplugged Fest 2

"Unplugged" is not just doing a song acoustically. It's covering a song that was originally very electric but doing it with acoustic instruments. Examples of genres that would be good to cover for UnpluggedFest are heavy metal and synth pop, where the original songs have lots of distorted guitars and/or synthesizers. By re-imagining those songs on acoustic instruments, you're "unplugging" the guitars and synths.

Unplugged, by definition, means a cover. New, original songs will not be accepted because they're not covers of electric songs. However, you can cover original songs that were previously posted here by yourself or other Songcrafters members provided that the original was very electric and you're covering it acoustically.

See this message for more info on UnpluggedFest:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=16708.msg208720#msg208720


DiscoFest

Covers of disco songs from the 1970s and 1980s, or original songs performed in that style.

See this message and the one after it:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=16709.msg209259#msg209259