{"id":13002,"date":"2016-04-03T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2016-04-03T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T15:14:29","slug":"local-musician-paul-lagendyk-wants-your-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/local-musician-paul-lagendyk-wants-your-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Local musician Paul Lagendyk wants your votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

His debut CD may be called Shiny Rails to Nowhere<\/em> but local musician Paul Lagendyk is hoping to take it all the way to the finals in the CBC\u2019s Searchlight 2016.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the second year he\u2019s participated in the national competition that has musicians from across the country vying for a spot in the on-air finals on CBC TV. Last year he placed in the top 200 out of more than 3300 submissions.<\/p>\n

The winner walks away with a prize package valued at $50,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get national exposure \u2013 you get to be on the TV show if you\u2019re in the final four,\u201d said Lagendyk. \u201cAnd the prize pack is good for a startup artist. There\u2019s enough equipment to do your own stage show, so you don\u2019t have to play your shows for basically nothing to pay for equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artists that participate in the competition have yet to get play on major radio, added Lagendyk. \u201cSo you maybe get some play on CBC and then you get exposure as an unsigned artist which is tough in the music industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

New for the competition this year is the requirement for musicians to submit a video of their song, which left Lagendyk struggling to create a video before the submission deadline. He decided, instead, to include the video of his live performance of Whiskey in My Water<\/em> at his CD release party at the Huntsville Legion on April 17, 2015.<\/p>\n