{"id":257,"date":"2024-07-01T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=257"},"modified":"2024-07-01T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:16:42","slug":"entries-now-open-for-pacific-break-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/entries-now-open-for-pacific-break-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries now open for Pacific Break 2024!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pacific\u2019s biggest music competition, ABC Radio Australia\u2019s Pacific Break, is now open for artists from across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The search has begun for the Pacific and Timor-Leste’s best original, unsigned talent with entries now open until midnight Sunday 25 August.<\/p>\n

The top prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to perform in 2025 at WOMADelaide \u2013 Australia\u2019s largest international music festival. The winning artist or group will be revealed on ABC Radio Australia\u2019s flagship daily morning program\u00a0Nesia Daily<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday 2 October.<\/p>\n

The 2024 competition launched with a live concert on Wailoaloa Beach in Fiji featuring performances from Pacific Break stars including 2023 winner Ju Ben (Fiji), 2022 winner\u00a0Danielle (Papua New Guinea) and 2019 winner Sprigga Mek (Papua New Guinea) as well as 2023 finalists Bibao and Lonna (Solomon Islands), Ratu (Fiji) and Oni (Fiji).<\/p>\n

ABC Radio Australia\u2019s resident reggae DJ and\u00a0<\/em>Island Music<\/em><\/a>\u00a0presenter Rick Howe also performed a DJ set at the launch, which was hosted by ABC Radio Australia music host and Pacific Break judge,\u00a0Sose Fuamoli<\/a>, and ABC Australia\u2019s\u00a0The Pacific<\/em><\/a>\u00a0presenter Johnson Raela.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0judging panel for this year\u2019s competition sees the return of Papua New Guinean-born Australian new soul diva Ngaiire as well as ABC Radio Australia music presenters Sose Fuamoli (Sista Sounds<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0On The Record<\/em><\/a>) and Rick Howe (Island Music<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0hip-hop artist and ABC Radio Australia host Hau Latukefu (In The Fale<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0<\/em>with\u00a0WOMADelaide Associate Director Annette Tripodi.<\/p>\n

For more information about Pacific Break\u2019s 2024 judges, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HOW TO ENTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artists from the Pacific or Timor-Leste can submit their original track(s) one of three ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. 1.<\/span>Complete the\u00a0Online Entry Form<\/strong>, available at\u00a0https:\/\/pacificbreak.typeform.com\/entryform<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. 2.<\/span>Contact us via\u00a0Whatsapp\u00a0+61 447 310 986 and send through your songs and info<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. 3.<\/span>Complete and send the\u00a0<\/strong>Email Entry Form<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/strong>pacificbreak@abc.net.au<\/a>\u00a0and include your music files as an attachment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more information about Pacific Break, including competition details and terms and conditions, visit\u00a0www.abc.net.au\/pacificbreak<\/a><\/p>\n

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    About ABC International Services<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    Since 1939, the ABC has been broadcasting to audiences overseas. The International division reaches an estimated 14,224,065 unique monthly overseas audiences through owned and operated platforms including ABC Australia, ABC Radio Australia and ABC websites and apps including ABC Pacific and ABC Asia. The ABC\u2019s international audiences come from all corners of the globe. ABC Australia, the ABC\u2019s international television service available in 37 markets throughout Asia and the Pacific, has a monthly viewership of at least 3,905,050. ABC Radio Australia, the ABC\u2019s international radio service available via FM in the Pacific and Timor Leste, has a monthly listenership of at least 321,225. Outside Australia, ABC websites and apps have an average global monthly usership of 9,997,790 which includes approximately 7,505,085 users across the Americas, Europe and Africa and 1,865,655 users in Asia.<\/em><\/p>\n

    *Figures based on the ABC 2022-23 Annual Report<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Pacific\u2019s biggest music competition, ABC Radio Australia\u2019s Pacific Break, is now open for artists from across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. The search has begun for the Pacific and Timor-Leste’s best original, unsigned talent with entries now open until midnight Sunday 25 August. The top prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to perform in 2025 at … Continue reading “Entries now open for Pacific Break 2024!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}