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Have any fellow forum members taken part in similar events? How did it go?
What are the key things we should be looking to do (or, more probably, not do?!)
Would you be inclined towards covers (advantage: we know them and play them pretty well) or compositions (we have some that are really quite good but the audience, of course, will not be familiar with them).

All input gratefully received and I will let you know how it went after the event (17 December)



Marc, I was in a band that played at a battle of the country bands in Las Vegas back in the 90's. It was a outdoor thing which perhaps 10 or more bands were involved. There was some television coverage of the event and radio. We all played cover songs mostly but I did hear a few originals. We all had to use the House PA which had a sound engineer at the console. We had maybe 10 minutes to plug in and get ready to go. Each band got 25 minutes so we had all of songs timed out and in order. We did this just to get some attention & perhaps getting a gig or 2 in some local bars. What we did get is 2 hours of free recording time at a local studio and some free concert tickets. I really don't think it did anything to help us along in my opinion.
Brian

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