Nearly 230 Bay State artists entered NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest. Our panel of judges are selecting their favorite local entry, and narrowed it down to 21.
Call it the Alisa Amador Effect: after the Boston-area musician won the, Massachusetts entries to the competition spiked. This year, nearly 230 Bay State artists competed for a coveted slot in the wildly popular NPR concert series, up from 150. Even if there’s no way to know for sure, it’s easy to conclude that local musicians saw a peer receive one of the nation’s most coveted musical accolades and thought, “Hey, that could be me.”.
But the expanded pool of Massachusetts entries was a boon for our own panel of judges, who were tasked with choosing a local favorite to perform at WBUR’s CitySpace. We’ve been doing this for the past five years, and the process is always a delight. The video entries — all original songs, performed live — range from growly guitar rock to sensual R&B to bubbly electropop.
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