New Music on the Block Competition Winners Announced

October 2006

Block M Records is proud to present the winners of its inaugural New Music on the Block Competition at 8 p.m., October 20 & 21, in the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. The performances are free and open to the public.

Out of fifty-six individual submissions to the annual competition, a panel three judges selected eight groups representing a variety of musical genres, each of whom will have an opportunity to perform and record their works for release on the Block M Record label. The recordings will be available for permanent download through the iTunes Music Store.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 New Music on the Block Competition!

Ajay Anand (Ross School of Business), Lehra Ke Chal
Michelle Chamuel (School of Music, Theatre & Dance)/Robert Lester (School of Music, Theatre & Dance) My Dear Disco
Andrew Haefner (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), Getting It Out
Devin Kerr (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), Fashion’s Latest
Karl Pestka (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), A Multitude of Happenings
Patrick Prouty (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), South-West
Ashley Statfeld (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), Walk On By
Jack Stratton (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), Facebook Boogie

Special thanks to this year's judges: Erik Santos (Associate Professor of Music [Composition], School of Music, Theatre & Dance); and architectural acoustician, John Storyk (Partner/Co-founder, Walters-Storyk Design Group); John Merlin Williams (Director, The James and Anne Duderstadt Center and Executive Producer, Digital Media Commons).