It's that time of year again when the nation starts to look for the newest young talent in folk music.
Young musicians specialising in traditional musics of other cultures are also welcome to enter.
The competition is open to any candidate from the UK aged 12-20 years inclusive. The Deadline for enteries is Monday 3rd September 2001. Entrants are asked to submit a recording with up to ten minutes of material which they should send to Folkworks with a completed entry form. Write a Lincolnshire Folk Song competition. To be eligible the song must be new, written this year especially for the competition, must not have appeared on previously available commercial recordings and be under four minutes long.