Third International Space Pioneer Song Contest to be Held.
March 7, 2005
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The Mars Society is proud to announce that it will hold its Third
Rouget de Lisle Award contest for songs celebrating the cause of the
human exploration and settlement of space.

We are asking for a tape or CD of songs, to be submitted together
with a hardcopy of the lyrics by no later than April 30, 2005 to Mars
Society, Box 273, Indian Hills, CO 80454. Songs can be any style;
classical, folk, country, pop, jazz, rock and roll, etc. A committee
of judges will then down select to ten finalists, who will be invited
to play at the 8th International Mars Society Convention, University
of Colorado, Boulder, Agust 11, 14, 2005. The audience will then vote
for the winning songs. All finalists, however, will submitted to
Prometheus Records for consideration for its next CD, and will also
be forwarded to NASA for possible use as wakeup songs for crews of
the International Space Station, the Mars Rovers, and the Cassini
spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn!

The winner of our first contest "The Pioneers of Mars" was recently
used as wakeup music for the Mars rover Opportunity. Written by
partners in life and song Karen Linsley and Lloyd Landa, "The
Pioneers of Mars" was honored with the Mars Society's first Rouget de
Lisle award in 2000.

Co-author Landa died unexpected of a heart attack days before the
song's debut at the Mars Society's August 2000 Toronto conference,
after which Karen exclaimed in tears, "Get to Mars. And when the
notes of this song are heard on Martian soil, he will live again."

The Second Rouget de Lisle was held in 2004, with the winners awarded
at the 7th International Mars Society Convention in Chicago. The
winners of that contest were:

Gold Medal Category;
1st place; "Thank God Dreams Survive," by Bill, Tina, and Casey
Swindell
2nd place; "On to Mars," by Robert McNally

Silver Medal Category
3rd Place; "Lullaby for Mars," by S. Miria Jo
4th Place; "When Mice Become Men," by Janetta Deavers

Bronze Medal Category
5th Place; "Make this World Come Alive," written by Leslie Fish, sung
by Beatriz Serrato
6th Place; "First Footprint," by Robert McNally.

Songs from the first and second Rouget de Lisle contest have been
posted and are
available for downloading at the "Mars Songs" link at
www.marssociety.org.

So tune up your harps, space bards, turn in your songs and prepare to
turn out for Boulder. Let your voices ring out into the solar system.
Mars needs music, and the Boulder conference is going to be the
Woodstock of Mars!

For further information about the Mars Society, visit our website at
www.marssociety.org.