P R O G R A M  R U L E S​​

We request you all to come at the start of the event and support all participants.
Cultural team decision is final in no show cases/any delayed arrival/any delays. Your cooperation and support will be appreciated. 

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Program guidelines:
● To enrich the Kannada language, we request all the participants to sing all flavors of  Kannada songs like Bhavageethe or Bhaktigeethe or Janapadageethe or Film songs.
● Event is divided into following Categories -
    Kids(Solo/Group),Instruments, Adult(Solo/Group)
● Duration for each category and available slots
            ❖ Kids(Solo) - 3 minutes (25 slots)
            ❖ Instruments - 5 minutes (5 slots) including time to tune & setup
            ❖ Adults(Solo) - 4 minutes (25 slots)
            ❖ Adults/Kids (Group) - 4 minutes (5 Slots) minimum 3 participants.
● Participate only once in any category
● The slots are run as per the sequence
● TWO slots per family.
           ❖ Two slots can be used by kids in the same family
           ❖ Two slots can be used by one adult and one kid, but not 2 adults from the same family
           ❖ 2 adults/couples in a family are encouraged to sing duet together by using one adult slot allotted per family
           ❖ On the event day, if there is a NO SHOW/LATE/SELF SKIP to the assigned slot, the same will be assigned   to standby participants.

           ❖ Participants are requested to report to the backstage 10 mins prior to your singing slot voluntarily.

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Audio Details:
● Tracks can be either MP3 (audio) or MP4 (audio video, where lyrics can be seen on TV).
● Tracks must be properly labelled with Participant Name. Tracks without proper file names will not be accepted.

● No Tracks / updates will be accepted on the day of the event in any format (cellphone / google drive / flash drive / online).
● Last date to send the track - January 10th, 2025 (Friday) and please send the tracks to culturalteam@hkkct.org.

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Standby slots:

We will accommodate FIVE (#5) additional entries as standby/waitlist for those families that don’t succeed making it to any regular slot categories. Once all the slots are filled up, interested members are requested to send an inquiry to culturalteam@gmail.com. We will allot standby slots on a 'first come-first serve' based on the receipt/timestamp of the email. 

 

These waitlisted slots are not guaranteed but will be backfilled if there is cancellation/no show on the day of the event. 

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Program guidelines and Audio details are the same as mentioned above for the standby slots.

 

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For more details or any questions, please reach out to culturalteam@hkkct.org