Next Up at ALTWorld - BANDS, under age 19, submission forms due by 4/30

Next Up at ALTWorld, Sunday, May 3, 2009 from 1-5 p.m is a workshop to be held at Jovita’s download your submission form here if you are under 19 or a parent of a talented teen.

This month's panel of judges so far includes Award-winning rock journalist and Teen Up Starter Margaret Moser (Austin Chronicle, Next Up Austin), Harmoni Kelley, lovely local bass playing queen to Bob Schneider, Bruce Hughes, Jon Dee Graham, James McMurtry, - poet, videographer, killer guitar hero and producer Billy Harvey and our Multi-Media Guru Mark Alba with prizes like a band photo shoot with Cory Ryan Photography, band website design training from Fishtank Design (Ian Moore, Jummy Vaughn and RajiWorld), a workshop on" stage fright"/"performance anxiety" with Wayne Meyers and a Demo recording session with Graham Sattinger (Ballet Austin and the Armstrong School).

Our last workshop Sunday February 22, 2009 yielded some pretty great results, We are proud to announce the first signing out of our ALTWorld Auditions, EDISON CHAIR.

Edison Chair is a three piece teen rock band from Austin, Texas that brings an innovative, eclectic style of music to the forefront of the Austin youth scene. Focused on quality songwriting and musicianship rather than on digital effects or synthesizers, band members Martin Aker, Wes Armstrong and Nathan Thrash make a tight musical partnership that grabs hold and doesn't let go with songs good enough to prompt multi-platinum songwriter Monte Warden (Kelly Willis, Patty Loveless, George Jones, Bruce Robison, Travis Tritt, and George Strait,) to bring some of LA's finest major label AR producers Bruce Brody (Rickie Lee Jones, Lone Justice, Pulp Fiction Soundtrack, Maria McKee) and Jose Alcantar (Blue October) to town to take them into the studio this week.

And if that were not enough, Rising Austin Star Nakia hand picked them to open on his upcoming record release show!