TOYOTA STAR MAKER
Source: Country Music Capital News
Posted online 24 June 2009
ENTER THE 2010 TOYOTA STAR MAKER COMPETITION
The 31st Toyota Star Maker – Australia’s most prized country music crown – will be announced in Tamworth, Australia’s home of country music, on Sunday, January 17, 2010.
The annual search for a new Australian country music star, the nation’s most significant, most successful and influential new talent event in country music, has been responsible for giving the nation many of today’s major country stars.
The star-making power of Australia’s most prestigious country music talent quest becomes clear when the event celebrates winning names such as Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan, Beccy Cole, Gina Jeffreys, Darren Coggan and James Blundell through to the young crop of stars in Samantha McClymont (from The McClymonts), Travis Collins, Kirsty Lee Akers and the newest winner Liam Brew.
So how does it all happen? Each year, Toyota Star Maker invites aspiring country music stars to compete for a range of opportunities that will provide a substantial career boost for the winner.
Toyota Star Maker is not a talent competition as such... "it is an annual search for an individual star who has the greatest potential to take advantage of the opportunities offered in the Toyota Star Maker prize package," said a spokesman for the organisers, "a prize package that now includes a full album record deal."
“It is ideal that entrants are already working professionally in the Australian country music industry with an aim to reach for the stars.”
The message is: "If you are ready to take the next big step, enter and you could join previous winners of Toyota Star Maker on the ride of your life."
The Toyota Star Maker 2010 prize package includes use of the title Toyota Star Maker 2010, a big budget recording session with one of Australia’s top producers, album recording contract with Compass Brothers Records, distribution and promotion of at least two tracks to radio and other media, 50 copies of the album for personal distribution, a Maton acoustic guitar, 12 months use of a brand new fully serviced Toyota motor vehicle, a fuel card for the 12 months after winning Toyota Star Maker, production of a professional video clip of one of the tracks by an award winning director, media promotion including monthly exposure in Australia’s only monthly country music magazine Country Music Capital News, photographic portfolio with Image Design Photography, guaranteed performance bookings at a designated list of events organised by Artist Network and Laing Entertainment including the Tamworth Country Music Festival, Perth Muster, Mud Bulls & Music, National Music Muster at Gympie and Penrith’s Museum of Fire plus a special performance at the Toyota Star Maker Grand Final in 2011.
Artists seriously looking for a professional long-term career in country music are invited to apply.
Toyota Star Maker is organised and promoted by Rural Press Events, publishers of Country Music Capital News.
Entry forms are available by emailing starmaker@ruralpress.com or by telephoning 02 6762 2399.
Entry forms can also be downloaded from the Toyota Star Maker page at www.capitalnews.com.au
For further media information, please contact:
Cheryl Byrnes, CoOrdinator, Toyota Star Maker, T: 02 6762 2399 M: 0407 106 966 E: starmaker@ruralpress.com
Applications close 30th September
