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5 December 2006 SCALA Over The Edge wins a dBra Congratulations to everyone involved in the compilation CD SCALA Over The Edge which last night won a dBra Award for Best Compilation Release. The dBras (dB Magazine Readers Awards) are hosted by dB Magazine. Other SCALA members involved in nominations were Gloria Albanese, Laura Hill, Leigh Stardust, The Standard Deviations and Soursob Bob with Laura Hill winning Best Solo Female and Best New Act. More details in the next SCALA News. 24 August 2006 FOOM 2006 Results Winners in all sections of SCALA's Festival of Original Music Song Competition 2006 were announced at St Paul's Function Centre this evening: LIVE Winner/s Find Your Way Olivia Hand Death Of A Snowman Rachel Cearns Dangerous Tonight Tom Black Another Time John Delamore Highly Commended Love Mustard Rowena Garcia What I Want To See Katie Greenhalf Feeling Good Gloria Albanese Commended Green Eyes David Lucas & Tom Lawlor On My Knees Gary Stiliano & Adrian Miller Listen For Home Esther Lamb Shooting Adonis Casey Finlay Café Coolsville Andy Armstrong These songs were judged in the Live Final on Thursday, 24th August at St Pauls Reception Centre by composer and musician Catherine Finnis and singer/songwriter Ronnie Taheny. Winner of the "People's Choice" Award (based on audience votes) was Shooting Adonis by Casey Finlay who won 8 Hours Recording Time at Pigs In Space Studio. Star Encouragement Awards (Live Section) Esther Lamb (Overall Winner) Tom Black Guillaume Vétu Olivia Hand Vorn Doolette DEMO OPEN Winner/s Waiting For The Rain Tony Hatters Lullaby Maria Okunev The False Messiahs Neil Phillips & Phil Chandler Highly Commended Wealth From The Sea Sonny Rolfe Devil On The Dark Highway Len Wilkins & Kev Spencer Pet Shop Puppy Andy Armstrong Any Hour Gloria Albanese I Found Gold Gary Stiliano & Adrian Miller When You Tell Me Christine Kounnas (Scarlet) Heartbreak Ted Roberts Keep On Waiting Esther Lamb Commended Tell Me Another Story Susanne Mouat Mighty Murray River Ted Roberts Old Charlie Neil Phillips & Phil Chandler Go Mick McClounan & Stephanie Crowley I'm A Wanted Man Clayton Werner They Don't Know Alina Roucas & Luke Martin Who Are We Antonio Camarra DEMO INSTRUMENTAL Winner Blue Moon Territory Rob McDade Highly Commended All That Flows Julian Duband MASTER INSTRUMENTAL Winner River Andy Armstrong Commended Reflections And Memories Of Life Peter Zajax MASTER OPEN Winner Bright Izy Vorn Doolette Highly Commended Suspended Simon Chan Take My Life Alina Roucas & Luke Martin Commended Fruit Salad Andy Armstrong & Nicole Rowley Shit Together Esme MacDonald LYRICS Winner Night Riders Renfrey Clarke Highly Commended One Light Raechel Ward Green Eyed Monster Sandra Burton Arabic Dancer Gloria Albanese Commended Never In A Million Years Magdalena MacDonald Letters To Evangeline Phil Chandler I'm An Ex-Existentialist Clayton Werner Further details will be posted on our Hall of Fame pages soon! Thanks to all who took part in FOOM 2006. 19 August 2006 FOOM 2006 Live Heat Three Winners in the third heat of SCALA's Festival of Original Music Song Competition 2006 Live Section were: Katie Greenhalf What I Want To See Gary Stiliano & Adrian Miller On My Knees Esther Lamb Listen For Home John Delamore Another Time Casey Finlay Shooting Adonis These songs will go into the Live Final on Thursday, 24th August at St Pauls Reception Centre. Heat Three judges were songwriters Dr Mandy Treagus and Michael Coghlan. Winner of the "People's Choice" Award (based on audience votes) was Casey Finlay who won a bottle of wine courtesy of Bella Wines. 12 August 2006 FOOM 2006 Live Heat Two Winners in the second heat of SCALA's Festival of Original Music Song Competition 2006 Live Section were: Andy Armstrong Café Coolsville Gloria Albanese Feeling Good Rachel Cearns Death Of A Snowman These songs will go into the Live Final on Thursday, 24th August at St Pauls Reception Centre. Heat Two judges were songwriter Robby Bowler and musician and producer Cliff Stoddart. Winner of the "People's Choice" Award (based on audience votes) was Rachel Cearns who won a bottle of wine courtesy of Bella Wines. 5 August 2006 FOOM 2006 Live Heat One Winners in the first heat of SCALA's Festival of Original Music Song Competition 2006 Live Section were: Tom Black Dangerous Tonight Olivia Hand Find Your Way David Lucas and Tom Lawlor Green Eyes Rowena Garcia Love Mustard These songs will go into the Live Final on Thursday, 24th August at St Pauls Reception Centre. Heat One judges were composer Diana Sautelle and songwriter and producer Rob Transini. Winner of the "People's Choice" Award (based on audience votes) was Rowena Garcia who won a bottle of wine courtesy of Bella Wines. 10 July 2006 SCALA's new webhost SCALA's website was temporarily offline on Sunday 9th July whilst we transferred our webdomain to a new host. We hope that we can offer more services to SCALA members and visitors to the SCALA website as a result of this move. Thanks to SCALA sponsor Computertech for helping us with the move. 5 July 2006 SCALA's FOOM 2006 Song Competition now closed The closing date for entries in SCALA's 2006 Song Competition was Friday, 30th June 2006. Processing of entries is now underway and judging will commence shortly. Entrants in the Live Section will be informed of their heat by letter by 14th July. Announcement of results of all sections will be announced at the Live Final at St Pauls Entertainment Centre on Thursday, 24th August and will be posted on this website shortly after. We attempt to (snail) mail out judges' comment sheets to all entrants within a fortnight of the Final. Thanks to everybody who participates. 28 April 2006 SCALA's FOOM 2006 Song Competition Entries are now being received in the thirteenth annual Festival of Original Music Song Competition run by SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association. SCALA formed in Adelaide in 1987 to encourage original music of any style. Its annual song competition commenced in 1994 and winning songs are released on a compilation CD each year. SCALA's albums so far have enabled 261 new songs to be released to the public, all but 8 written by Australian songwriters and composers. The FOOM song competition attracts entries from all states and territories of Australia and some overseas countries each year. FOOM has 6 different sections - Live performance, Demo Open, Demo Instrumental, Master Open, Master Instrumental and Lyrics - catering to all original musicians. Entries for this year's song competition must be received by Friday 30th June. The Live Performance Section Grand Final will be held at St Pauls Entertainment Centre, Adelaide on Thursday 24th August when results in all other sections will be announced. FOOM Song Competition 2006 details