Love writing about music for your blog or website?

We have created the MusiCares^® Music Blogger Contest just for you! One lucky music writer will be selected to be the only MusiCares^® blogger with red carpet credentials at the MusiCares^® Person of the Year Event in February 2012!

This annual event, held during GRAMMY^® Week, offers a once-in-a-lifetime line-up of artists celebrating the career and humanitarian spirit of a major music legend.

This year, legendary performer and 14-time GRAMMY^® winner, Paul McCartney, will be honored as the MusiCares^® Person of the Year in recognition of his singular creative accomplishments as well as his charitable work, which has included an extraordinary range of philanthropic activities over the years.

“I’ve been given a great gift — a life making music — and it’s my privilege to try to make the world a better place by giving back,” said McCartney. “For more than 20 years, MusiCares has helped so many music people in times of crisis — whether with emergency financial assistance or access to addiction recovery resources — and it is an honor to be recognized as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year.”

The 2012 MusiCares^® Person of the Year gala will begin with a reception and silent auction offering an exclusive and unparalleled selection of luxury items, VIP experiences and one-of-a-kind celebrity memorabilia for bidding guests. The reception and silent auction will be followed by a dinner, the award presentation and a star-studded tribute concert. The MusiCares^® Person of the Year tribute ceremony is one of the most prestigious events held during GRAMMY^® Week. The winning Music Blogger will be credentialed to a position the MusiCares^® Person of the Year red carpet as well as attend the event as a blogger. For anyone who loves music and dedicates their time to writing about music, this is an extraordinary opportunity to be at this star-studded event!

Former honorees include Bono, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Don Henley, Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Neil Young, and more. Guest artists perform from the honoree’s repertoire in his or her honor. Watch the video from last year’s event!

MusiCares^® helps and supports the people who dedicate their lives to making the music you blog about.   This year, the Be A Part Of The Heart campaign is dedicated to raising funds to help music people with financial, medical, and personal emergencies. We are looking to the community of music bloggers and music websites to help us!

All we want you to do is what you do best; write about music! OK, it’s slightly more complicated than that, but should come naturally to you. Your whole blog or site does not have to be about only music or any particular kind of music: music news, hip hop blogs, indie music blogs, new music blogs, house music blogs, rap blogs, rock music blogs, country music blogs, rock music websites, or music review sites are all welcome!

On YOUR OWN music blog or website, anytime between Sept. 9^th and Oct.  31^st, write at least 300 words about how music has impacted your life and why people reading your music blog post should support MusiCares^®.

Possible blog post themes can be:

• Why is the support that MusiCares^® provides important / necessary?
• Why should readers support music and the artists who dedicate their life to music?
• “Music is powerful in many ways – it can be a healing agent, it can teach other skills, it can communicate across other barriers.  What power of music have you seen in action?
• How does music play a role in addiction recovery?
• Was there a time that music saved you or someone you know?
• Which musical artist did we lose too soon due to addiction, financial, or medical woes?
• What about music impacted your life?
• Music, food, or love – which would you rather have on a deserted island?
• Or anything else that moves you about music and its importance to you and the world!

The post MUST be written between Sept. 9^th to Oct. 31^st and include:

• The official MusiCares^® logo on this post.
• A disclosure to your readers linking back to this blog post informing them that you are writing the post as a contest entry.  Here’s an example: “Disclaimer: This blog post has been written for entry into the MusiCares^® Music Blogger contest.”
• And this phrase with the link:

“MusiCares^® helps and supports the people who dedicate their lives to making the music I blog about. Please join the Be A Part of the Heart MusiCares^® mosaic at https://beapartoftheheart.com/ and be entered for a chance to win a trip the 2012 GRAMMYS^®!”

Then, when your post is live, go to the MusiCares^® Facebook page and enter the contest through the Music Blogger navigation tab on the left. You will be required to like the page to enter the contest and supply the dedicated URL of the entry post as well as your email so we can contact you if you are a finalist!  And if you are so inclined, you can write more than one! But again, this must all be done by Oct. 31st.

Then we determine the finalists based on quality, creativity, originality, and impact! You will be contacted if you make it to round two and we’ll even give you a snazzy looking badge that you can show off on your blog to tell your readers where they can go to vote for you!

We’ll highlight the finalist entries with snippets of the posts and links back to YOUR blog from a blog post here. Plus, we’ll promote the winning entries on our social media networks.

Voting will then be open to the public from Nov. 1^th to Nov.  30 ^th! Off our MusiCares^® Facebook page, people will vote for their favorite blog post from the list of finalists! Of course, you can promote your own entry in any way you like and ask your networks to vote for you! The only requirement is that voters must like the MusiCares^® Facebook page before they vote.

After the voting period closes on Nov. 30 ^th, the finalist with the most votes is declared the MusiCares^® Music Blogger  and will be the only MusiCares^® blogger on that red carpet!

So what are you waiting for? Get blogging!!

Please see additional MusiCares^® Music Blogger rules for more information.

*  View Official Be A Part of the Heart Sweepstakes Rules, including how to enter without making a donation.

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