The Grand Prize winner will take an all-expenses-paid trip to Rome, Italy to perform at the first Hard Rock Live Rome music festival this summer.
The competition today is part of the Hard Rock Rising’s global battle of the bands contest co-organized by Hard Rock and ReverbNation.
Hard Rock Cafe HCMC will host two preliminary events where local bands Gen, The Arrow, Andre Ngo Trio, Sagometal and Factor 7 will have to show off their talent before a panel of judges comprising local industry experts such as Microwave band leader & composer Tran Ngoc Tung, general director of Yeah1 Production Jay Casee and a sponsor representative.
The first three bands – Factor 7, The Arrow and Gen – will go on stage tonight at 9 p.m. while the other two, Sagometal and Andre Ngo Trio, will compete with the first battle’s runner up on March 20. The final live performance round is set for April 3, also at 9 p.m. The winner will represent Hard Rock Cafe HCMC and compete with other winners from Hard Rock Cafe locations around the world.
After the local winning band is named, they will join other city winners in the global competition where fans will vote on participating Hard Rock Facebook pages to narrow down the 80+ local winners to the top twenty-five bands.
A panel of celebrities and music industry professionals such as Steven Van Zandt and Bonnie McKee will select the Grand Prize winner and two runner-up bands.
The Grand Prize winner will perform at Hard Rock Live Rome, an outdoor music festival that is expected to attract more than 40,000 fans from across Italy, and the selected runner-up bands will each receive new music equipment and gear valued at US$10,000.
For further information, visit www.hardrockcafe.vn.
Hard Rock Cafe HCMC is located at Kumho Asiana Plaza, 39 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1, HCMC.
