The Yamaha HoeDown, Road to C2C 2017

Country to Country is one of the UK’s biggest events for Country Music.  Yamaha Music will be there – and we are looking for the BEST Country Artist, Duo or Band to take with us and perform at the event on the Pop-Up stages at The O2.
To find our Country hero, we’re running ‘THE YAMAHA HOEDOWN, The Road to C2C’, a series of live open mic nights in local music stores near you across the Country.

If selected to perform at your local heat you are to come along empty handed and perform one original and one country cover on Yamaha gear in front of an expert panel of industry judges.

Winners of each heat will then perform at the final at Yamaha HQ where the overall winner will be chosen to perform at The O2 London during Country to Country 2017, representing your local store and Yamaha Music UK!

The Heats;

Yamaha Music London – January 26th – 18:00pm events@yamahamusiclondon.com
PMT Nottingham – January 28th – 19:30pm hoedown@pmtonline.co.uk
PMT Manchester – January 31st – 19:30pm hoedown@pmtonline.co.uk
Guitar Guitar Glasgow - February 7th – 19:00pm events@guitarguitar.co.uk

To Apply / Details;

•    Find your local dealer hosting a hoedown heat.
•    Email a link to a video of you performing an original track, along with your name, age and contact details.
•    Must be a UK resident and 18+.
•    See more detailed terms & Conditions below.

CLOSING DATE:  December 30th 2016

For your chance to be selected as the BEST Country act in your local area and represent them in the final, with the overall prize of performing at Country to Country 2017 at The O2 as a Yamaha artist, APPLY NOW!

Competition Terms and Conditions

1. Scope of these Terms and Conditions
a) These Terms and Conditions apply to The Yamaha Hoedown Competition (“Competition”) as described below.
b) This competition is held by Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK), Sherbourne Drive, Tilbrook, Milton Keynes, MK7 8BL, United Kingdom (“Yamaha”).
c) By submitting their entry to participate in this competition, entrants agree that they have read, understood and accepted these Terms and Conditions.
 
2. Competition – mechanism and prizes

a) The Competition period is from 1st November 2016 until 28th February 2017
b) Yamaha calls anyone residing in the United Kingdom of the age of 18 years and over to enter this competition.
     Yamaha employees and their family members, the agencies or anyone professionally connected with this Competition are not eligible for this competition.
c) Participation mechanism and prizes

Phase 1 – Entry Process:
In order to participate, Entrants are asked to provide a link to an application video (“entry”) from [1st November 2016 until 30th December 2016 of them performing one (1) ORIGINAL country music composition.
Entrants must also enter their name, date of birth, address and contact number in full.
Entries must be made in accordance with the instructions on this submission page. Submissions will not be accepted by e-mail, post or other means not specified on the aforementioned website. Yamaha cannot be held responsible for any entries not received due to technical problems.
The closing date for entries is 30th December 2016, 11:59 pm Western European Time (UTC).
The four participating Yamaha Dealers will each select four (4) Regional Finalists.

d) Phase 2 – Live Regional Finals
The Regional Finals will consist of two (2) live performances of each Regional Finalist. The performance will include songs one (1) Country Cover and one (1) original composition. Regional finals will take place through January & February 2017.
The performance of the Regional Finalists will be evaluated by a jury consisting of four (4) judges including a member of the Dealer’s store and at least one Yamaha Artist. One Finalist will be selected for the Grand Final and announced on each Live Regional Final evening.
Regional Winners will receive a small Yamaha prize.

e) Phase 3 – Grand Final
The Grand Final will be held at Yamaha’s premises on the 24th February 2017.
The performance will be judged by a jury whose members include industry figures.
The overall winner will be announced on that day winning the main prize of representing their local dealer and Yamaha music UK on the pop up stages of The O2 London at Country to Country on either March 10, 11, 12. 2017.
 
3. Competition requirement
a) Yamaha shall not be responsible for monitoring whether the entrants’ uploaded content, however Yamaha reserves the right to reject any content that Yamaha may consider to be illegal.
b) Yamaha reserves the right, with or without cause, to exclude entrants and withhold prizes for violating any of these Terms and Conditions.  Yamaha may do so retroactively and recall the prize.
c) By entering the competition, all entrants represent and warrant that their entry does not contain any so called samples and/or other copyright material owned by a third party, any personal rights, insults, copyright violations, trademark infringements.
d) The entrant shall indemnify Yamaha on first demand from any claims by third parties due to the entrant’s contribution to illegal content.

4. Execution
a) No cash or alternative prizes available. Prizes are not for resale or transferable.
b) The Regional Finalists, Finalists and the Winner will be announced on the official Yamaha Site after each Phase. All reasonable endeavors will be made to contact these Entrants during this time to announce the dates of the following Phases.
5. Disclaimer

Yamaha shall not be liable for any failure to meet this Terms and Conditions where such failure is cause by any supervening circumstances amounting to force majeure. Such circumstances shall include, but shall not be limited to, technical problems, change of terms and conditions or decisions by platforms such as Facebook, severe weather conditions, fire, flood, war, earthquake, riots, industrial dispute, terrorism, acts of god, or events that, without fault of either party, render performance impossible or incapable of satisfactory execution.

6. Liability
Notwithstanding mandatory law, Yamaha’s liability for compensation of damages shall be excluded or limited as defined in this number 6:
a) Yamaha’s liability shall be unlimited regarding damage from deliberate or grossly negligent violation of duty by Yamaha or one of its legal representatives.
b) Yamaha shall further be liable where the damage results from negligent violation of essential contractual duties. Essential contractual duties are all of those obligations, the fulfilment of which is a prerequisite for enabling the proper fulfilment of the contract in the first place and upon their compliance the contractual partner may normally trust.
In this case Yamaha’s liability is, however, limited with regards to the amount, in accordance with the contractually typical foreseeable damage at the time of the conclusion of the contract.
c) Yamaha’s liability shall not be excluded if the damage occurs from injury to life, body, or health which rests on a deliberate or negligent violation of duty by Yamaha or by one of its legal representatives or where Yamaha is subject to a mandatory legal liability, in particular liability in accordance with product liability law.
d) As far as Yamaha’s liability is excluded or limited according to the above provisions, this also applies to the personal liability of Yamaha’s legal representatives, employees, staff, and proxies.

7. Privacy
Uses of personal data received by Yamaha in the course of the competition are subject to applicable laws and the privacy policy found on http://europe.yamaha.com/en/privacy_policy/ .
a) The following information will be collected by Yamaha for the purpose of administration and execution of the competition:
•    Name
•    Date of birth
•    Address
•    Phone number
b) Entrants consent to being contacted by Yamaha via e-mail or telephone for the purpose of administrating the Competition and their names being published on Facebook and/or Yamaha websites.
c) The collected data will be used only for the execution of this competition and deleted thereafter.

8. Other
a) If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.
b) These terms and conditions and any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by the laws of England and participants agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction.