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The P.E.I. Mutual Insurance Company
& the P.E.I. Association of Exhibitions
2008 Youth Talent Search
Eligibility for Youth Talent Search:
The contest is open to non-professional performers only, between the ages of 13 and 21 years. Each member of an act, whether performing as a soloist or as a member of a group must be at least 13 years old and must not have reached his/her 22nd birthday by the opening day of the current year’s participating fairs.
PROOF OF AGE WILL BE REQUIRED
Each Exhibition may choose to have a preliminary contest should the number of entries exceed twenty (20) participants. An individual cannot be part of an act at the participating fairs deciding competition if he or she did not appear in the act at the preliminary contest.
Participants may enter one or all youth talent competitions held in P.E.I., providing they have not qualified to enter the current Provincial Finals. A participant who has won the Provincial Finals and has competed in the National Youth Talent Finals is no longer eligible to compete in future P.E.I./CAFÉ Youth Talent competitions.
Categories:
Categories of competition are as follows:
(1) Vocal Solo
(2) Instrumental Solo
(3) Dance Solo
(4) Vocal Group (no more than 5 people)
(5) Instrumental Group (no more than 5 people)
(6) Dance-Group (no more than 5 people)
(7) Variety Group (no more than 5 people)
NOTE: Competition categories are for the purpose of scheduling performers, clarifying eligibility and determining judging criteria. Each act will be judged against each other act, regardless of the category of the performance.
Competition:
Competitions for the Youth Talent Search will be held at six fairs/festivals on Prince Edward Island, (see over for complete list). A participant may enter any of these competitions. The participant may enter only two Categories in any one competition. A participant may also enter other Fair Competitions for the current year, providing they did not advance to the Provincial Finals from a previous Fair.
Fair Competition:
One act will be selected to represent each Fair/Festival at the Provincial Finals. (See reverse for winning acts’ recognition at individual Fairs)
Youth Talent Search Provincial Championship
The Provincial Finals will be held at the Évangéline Recreation Centre on Friday afternoon August 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm before the official opening ceremonies of L’ Exposition agricole et le Festival acadien de la région Évangéline.
Judges will select one overall winner who will receive an all expense paid trip to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, along with $200.00 in spending money, to compete at the Canadian Youth Talent Competition held in November during the annual national conference of the Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions.
Along with reservations at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel in the
heart of downtown Saskatoon and attending special events at the conference, the Provincial winner also will tour the city with its many highlights of interest and will have many other exciting experiences while there.
A memento of the Provincial Finals will be received that day.
1st Runner up will receive $275.00 along with a memento of the Provincial Finals.
2nd Rnnner up will receive $200.00 along with a memento of
the Provincial Finals.
4th and 5th placings will receive $50.00
Entries:
Entry forms must be completed and signed by the contestant (or by a parent/guardian) and forwarded to the contest coordinator with the entry fee, the birth certificate copy by the deadline specified as the closing date for that fair/festival. See the back of this folder for Fair competition coordinators and entry closing dates. For more information call the Prince Edward Island Association of Exhibitions at (902) 368-4848.
General Rules & Regulations of Judging:
Contestants will be judged on the following basis:
Natural Ability, 25%;
Quality of Performance, 25%;
Showmanship, 25%, and,
Audience Rapport, 25%.
*Audience rapport is the judges’ evaluation of how the act would be received by an appropriate, impartial audience in an appropriate setting, and is not based on the size or enthusiasm of an act’s “fan club.”
There should be a minimum of three (3) judges for each local competition. Each of the (3) principal performance disciplines (vocal, instrumental, and dance) should be represented by one (1) or more qualified members of the judging panel.
Decision of the contest judges is final. No discussion regarding any decision shall be entered into by Youth Talent Search organizers.
*Please note, all performers will report to the Youth Talent contact/organizer thirty (30) minutes before the scheduled event.
Rules & Regulations
1. It is strongly recommended that an act run no more than 4 1/4 minutes. Under no circumstances may an act run more than 4 1/2 minutes. ACTS RUNNING OVER 4 1/2 MINUTES WILL BE DISQUALIFIED! The act is timed from: the first vocal utterance in any vocal category; the first body movement in any dance category; and, the first musical sound in any instrumental category.
2. Baton-twirlers or similar acts using batons, machetes, knives etc., will not be accepted. No fire and/or pyrotechnics, smoke or smoke-effect will be allowed on stage at any time.
3. In the Vocal category, instrumental accompaniment by the
person in the act or others is allowed, but is not judged. It must assume the pure character of accompaniment. The test shall be whether the performance would stand alone.
Note: Taped backup may be used subject to the restrictions in rules 4, 5 & 6. It is to the participants benefit to ensure all tapes/cds are of superior quality. Please label each tape/cd with your name for identification. A tape/CD must include only the piece of music required for the performance, and must be cued properly. We cannot be responsible for any tape/cd which is not picked up following your performance.
4. No voice or voices or synthesized vocal utterance may be used for an accompaniment by contestants entered in the Vocal categories. This includes recorded live voices and voices that are produced and recorded synthetically. (i.e. synthesizers or digitally sampled.)
5. In the Instrumental categories, live or a taped accompaniment is allowed but must assume the pure character of accompaniment. The test shall be whether the performance would stand alone. The use of any instrument(s) being judged is not allowed. In the use of any electronic keyboard, no preprogrammed music is allowed. The contestant must create all sound live on stage.
6. In the Dance categories, accompanists are permitted on stage, but must not assume visual importance in the performance. There must be no taps or blatant tap effect on a taped recording or cd used by a dancer.
7. In the Vocal and/or Instrumental Group category, any combination of vocal and/or instrumental performance will be accepted, including bands with or without vocals.
8. Performers who wish to be judged on any combination of singing & choreography, or singing & drama, etc., plus all comedy or novelty acts, magic acts, ventriloquism acts, etc., must enter in the Variety category. While a combination of categories is allowed, the individual category rules will apply and contestants must give appropriate prominence to each element for the judges to properly evaluate the individual talents.
9. Contestants should be aware that while performance of an original composition, either vocal or instrumental, is acceptable under contest rules, more familiar “commercial” numbers will generally have better audience appeal.
10. Organizers reserve the right of final decision on any matters pertaining to the Youth Talent Search Competition not covered by the rules.
11. Group performances in any category may have up to five people in total.
“Professional Entertainer” Definition:
For the purpose of this Youth Talent Search,
a professional entertainer is:
a) one who earns more than $16,000.00 after cost recovery
in earned entertainment dollars, in a given year.
b) one who is a union member, or
c) one who has a “professional” agent or manager securing employment in the entertainment field, or
d) one who sings or is the principal performer on any cd released for commercial distribution through contracts with recording companies paid to promote them.
(This does NOT prohibit an entertainer from self-producing a CD for sale or distribution to friends and associates such as in church group activities or friendly retail outlets).
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