Sharim v'Sharot Foundation announces the Fourth Jewish Youth Song Writing Contest for students, ages 8 – 18, who reside in or attend school in Mercer County, New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Students will be divided into three categories according to age, and will select lyrics to set into songs from a list of texts on Jewish Environmentalism. Submissions are due, postmarked, by February 22nd, 2011 and will be judged, blind, by a panel of Jewish professionals including Cantors, Music Educators, Rabbis, etc.
First prize winners in each age category will receive $72 and may have their songs performed at Sharim V'Sharot's Third Princeton Mercer Jewish Choral Festival on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 3 PM, to be held at Congregation Adath Israel, 1958, Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Second prize winners will receive a prize of $54 which will also be presented on March 27th.
Visit www.sharimvsharot.org on or after December 15,2010 for contest applications, rules, tips on song writing, or to learn more. This contest is made possible by a generous grant to Sharim v’Sharot Foundation from the United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks.