Palm Beach PopStar Competition

The 2010 Palm Beach PopStar competition searches for a talented, amateur vocalist to appear live in concert with the Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops during their 2010-2011 concert season. The competition will start with a round of videotaped auditions submitted by interested singers.

Contestants select one or two songs with accompaniment and no longer than five minutes each. Entrants must be 18 years or older. Entry forms, rules and a suggested song list are available at www.palmbeachpops.org/popstar. Entries must be received by Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5pm EST. Send or deliver the audition video (DVD) to Palm Beach PopStar, 500 S. Australian Ave., Suite 100, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, or email video to creative@palmbeachpops.org.
Or attend an open-call audition at John Bull English Pub in West Palm Beach on September 15 and 29 from 7-9 pm where auditions will be videotaped for further review. To register for an open-call audition, email creative@palmbeachpops.org with the date you’d like to audition (limit one song per contestant).

Management from The Palm Beach Pops will evaluate the auditions and choose up to 15 finalists to compete before a panel of celebrity judges, including Maestro Bob Lappin, Pop culture writer and columnist for The Palm Beach Post Leslie Gray Streeter, SeaView 95.9FM radio personality Joe Raineri, and WXEL FM Jazz Impressions’ host and radio personality Stu Grant. The final competition is scheduled for Saturday, October 16, 2010.on Saturday, October 16 in West Palm Beach, Florida. For more information, call 800-448-2472.