NPR Music is bringing back its Tiny Desk Contest, asking unknown bands and musicians all over the country to film themselves performing one song at a desk of their choice. KUAR FM 89.1 and KLRE Classical 90.5 want as many Arkansans as possible to enter the national contest!
True to its spirit of music discovery, NPR Music is inviting all unsigned artists of all genres to enter. You can enter a video anytime between Jan. 12 and Feb. 2, 2016.
Show NPR why you should perform in NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series. The winner will secure a spot at the iconic performance space and a U.S. tour with NPR Music.
Bands and musicians can submit original video entries to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest at npr.org/tinydeskcontest (see rules for entry).
“This contest brings out the creatives in our country,” says All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen, who developed NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series with colleague Stephen Thompson in 2008. “When the Contest was first introduced, musicians from every state rose to the occasion and made incredible music recorded behind desks set on mountaintops, in the ocean and in cubicles. I simply can’t wait to see and hear what we get this round.”
NPR Music has created a bigger prize package for the 2016 Contest winner, which includes a four-part event tour with stops at NPR’s Ask Me Another program and at Lagunitas breweries in Petaluma, CA and Chicago, IL and a final stop in Portland, OR.
A panel of musicians from the Tiny Desk roster – Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs, Lucius ladies Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, and soul artist Son Little – will join Boilen and All Songs Considered co-host Robin Hilton in selecting one contest winner, to be announced in March 2016.
Throughout the three-week submission period and afterwards, NPR Music will also feature select video entries on the contest Tumblr, which already includes highlights from the 2015 Contest.
