Registration to participate in the maiden edition of the Lagos High School Music Challenge (LHSMC) has commenced.
The convener of the Lagos High School Music Challenge-(LHSMC), Mr. Biodun Kupoluyi, said secondary school students with flair for music can register as solo performers, groups or bands in the competition aimed at promoting live music and band culture to preserve Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage.
Speaking on Television Continental’s BREAKFAST SHOW on Friday, the award winning Entertainment journalist and Media Entrepreneur said talents in music can be combined with academic excellence.
Kupoluyi said the novel Lagos High School Music Challenge project, is a music talent hunt program conceived and designed to discover, develop, promote live music and band culture among solo performers, groups and bands in secondary schools in Lagos.
The Lagos High School Music Challenge, he said, is a state wide competition targeted at secondary school students who have flair for music and to inspire parents and teachers to encourage their children’s natural talents outside core academics.
Kupoluyi emphasized that the LHSMC keys into the need for a creative economy which the Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is propagating with the Tourism, Hospitality,Entertainment, Sports Excellence – T-H-E-S-E policy to help youngsters in secondary schools develop a vocation or skill outside academics.
Besides music education, he said the programme would project the diverse and distinctive culture of Nigeria while celebrating the nation’s rich and proud history.
The band culture, he said further would promote youth talents, celebrate the creative energy of student musicians, acquire skills in instrumentation and to understand , acquire their place in entertainment and encourage lifelong connections.
He expressed optimism that if corporate Nigeria keys in, the winners would entertain at several state and corporate functions, record an album, attend boot camps, go on tours and further cement national unity.
The grand finale scheduled for June 21, 2018 coincides with the globally celebrated World Music Day, after a series of elimination across six educational districts of Lagos.
LHSMC supported by the Lagos State’s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture is also listed in the State’s Tourism Calendar for 2018.
Registration for participation in the competition opened March 21, 2018 and closes April 21, 2018. Interested school bands, groups and solo performers can register onwww.lhsbconline.com.
