Battle of the Bands Returns February 9!

Assault from GlenOak High School was the winner of the 2007 Repository Battle of the Bands

A high-energy rock show to showcase local young garage bands, the Repository's Battle of the Bands is returning.

The fifth annual battle, with up to eight high-school bands competing for cool prizes, will happen Saturday Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at Canton's the Palace Theatre.

Each competing band will perform two songs live on the Palace stage, with a large video screen providing action closeups.

Last year, more than 1,100 people attended, with lots of homemade signs and screaming. A panel of area musicians will pick the winner.

For a band to be eligible, each member must be a current student in grades 9 through 12 at a high school in Stark County. Bands must submit a CD or tape recording of two songs, at least one of them an original, no later than Jan. 18.

As its top prize, the winning band will receive a professional recording session in the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, where it will record an original song and also shoot a music video. The winning band also will receive a Crate Profiler guitar amp, an Ampeg bass amp, a Godin guitar, a pro account on purevolume.com, and 1,000 custom CDs with color jackets, cases and shrinkwrapping.

Additionally, each member of the winning band will receive an Apple iPod Shuffle, a track jacket and a Maxell prize package.

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