Through the Art of Music Campaign, which JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival is back to provide a platform for young talent to perform at the festival known around the world in January 2010 on it `s now famous` Talent Stage. `

A chance to perform on stage is a dream come true for many people, with such popular musicians Tessanne Chin and Rootz Underground got a kick-start their careers benefit from performing on stage.

But for 2010, festival organizers certainly kicked it up a notch, with the introduction JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Band Quest competition.

`This is the next logical step for us and develop our Music ideas,` said Walter Elmore, head of turnkey Productions, producers of JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival. Now, people all over the world will have the opportunity to display their talents at the Festival, thanks to new Internet-based competition. Talented amateurs who wish to enter should visit the festival website `s smart (www.jamaicajazzandblues.com), and a member of J & B Fan Zone. With the membership, people can upload their music and video performance.

According to Marcia McDonnough, marketing manager JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival, `There are many activities that can be done at JJ & B Fan Zone to get points, and Band Quest entrants might attract new fans, who have the power to choose them and immigrants who also brought closer to the show in JAMAICA Jazz and Blues stage. `

He added that up to 60 participants with the highest number of points will be selected as finalists and will be invited to audition live in the United States and in Jamaica. Entries opened on Sunday, November 8 and will close on December 5, 2009. These sessions will be judged by the choices of people who qualify, selected by festival organizers.

If you qualify on the finalists but can `t make it to one of the live audition, then there is no reason to worry because the people in accordance with this bill will be included in the online competition, from which one acts will be chosen to perform at the Festival based on the point of acquisition and voting.

McDonnough said that the performance of all the winners in the live audition will be recorded and then uploaded to the website and Festival winners will be added to festival line-up. Interviews with judges and the winning participants will also be uploaded on the site, which he `will give the public an opportunity to know the action before the show at the Festival.`

But ultimately, there is only one winner. Bands that make the Festival stage will be entered through a final exam – judgment of Jamaica audience. Patron of JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival will be given a number to text and indicate who their favorite act in the Talent Stage each night. In addition, their appearance at the Festival will be uploaded to the festival site to the Internet more noise. Band with the most points earned from text messages and Internet votes in the final voting period, will be named winner of the 2010 JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Band Quest and will take home prizes including a confusion guaranteed to make a reservation on the main stage in JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival in the year 2011.