Regulations for the 11th Reggae Festival released! Check it out!

70s. A new, strong rhythm with hot beats begins to echo on the radio stations that liven up the party clubs, in neighborhoods on the outskirts of São Luís do Maranhão. It's Jamaican reggae, which mixes in the sequences with seresta, carimbó and other ballroom dance rhythms. In a short time, the rhythm was added to Maranhão popular culture. Today, bands and composers produce music at its best in roots reggae. And it is for these composers from local and national bands who spread the best of roots reggae that Universidade Federal do Maranhão will promote on the 24th and 25th of November this year, the 11th Festival Universitário de Reggae. Unireggae is a promotion of UFMA through the departments of Assuntos Culturais/ Proex and Comunicação Social/CCSo, in partnership with Governo do Maranhão, through Secretaria da Cultura. The festival's coordinator, Euclides Moreira Neto, informs that the 11th Unireggae aims to "reveal new talents and is open to composers and performers who may or may not have a phonographic record, whether they are university students or not. But the Festival will only accept songs set to the rhythm of reggae. Competing songs must have compositions of original new lyrics and melodies written in Portuguese", he notes Euclides Moreira. He further explains that unreleased songs are "those that have never been awarded, recorded or edited. Original songs are those that are not imitations, plagiarisms or copies of other compositions already on the market." Our selection committee is strict in complying with the standards established by the Unireggae regulations", declares Euclides Moreira. Registration will be open from March 31st to May 30th/2008.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Interested parties should register their work at Palacete Gentil Braga (headquarters of DAC/PROEX/UFMA), at Rua Grande, 782 - Centro - Phone (98) 3232-3901 - Fax: (098) 3231-2887, from 8 am to 12 pm, Monday to Friday. or over the internet. The registration form can be requested by email: dac_ufma@yahoo.com.br. “It is also available on the UFMA website (www.ufma.br) and on the website: www.festivalguarnice.com.br,” says Euclides Moreira. Those registered via the internet must send copies of the registration form, lyrics and the recorded piece to the festival coordination within the period stipulated for registration, in which case the postage stamp will be valid. To register, the candidate must properly fill out the registration form and submit the competing song recorded on cassette, CD or DVD, as well as the typed lyrics in five copies at the time of registration. You must also bring the release and photocopy of the identity of the author of the lyrics and music. The authors of the songs must send a Declaration to the promoters of the 11th UNIREGGAE declining the collection of copyright, by ECAD, as governed by Law 9,610/98. Composers and performers can submit up to two songs, one on each CD or DVD, however, only one can be classified. The material sent at the time of registration will not be returned to its authors and will form part of the DAC/PROEX/UFMA archive. The winning songs will receive the TROFÉU BOB MARLEY as an official prize, and additional prizes in currency and/or gifts must be awarded, the list of which will be announced up to 5 (five) days before the event takes place. Each participant will have at their disposal to defend their music, a band made up of 5 (five) musicians (guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and drums), with other musicians being able to be added at the discretion of the music defenders (at no cost to the production of the event).