Stephanie Mainville Named 1^st Runner Up in the 2009 Canadian Radio Star Song Writing Competition

 

TORONTO (MARCH 13, 2009) – Stephanie Mainville is the runner up at this year’s Canadian Radio Star – the 16th annual national song writing competition.  Popular vote combined with the decisions by a panel of judges chosen by Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) resulted in Mainville being selected as this year’s first runner up at the Canadian Radio Star Showcase.  Mainville’s song “Wait” finished second behind this year’s Grand Prize winner:  “Tonight, I Love You”, by BC band “The Latency”.

The announcement was made at Canadian Music Week in Toronto tonight at the Library Bar, Fairmont Royal York Hotel.  All of the regional finalists had an opportunity to perform at the Canadian Radio Star showcase – a Grand Finale which included performances by host Andy Kim.

Regional finalists were picked by participating radio stations and public on-line voting based on the creativity, originality, composition, lyrics, melody and radio airplay potential of their songs.  Presented by the Songwriters Association of Canada and supported by Astral Media and Canadian Music Week, the event discovers potential stars at the regional, grassroots level and showcases them to the music industry and general public alike.  Mainville was the New Brunswick regional winner as selected by C98.9 Big John FM in Saint John.

Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries.  Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; four awards shows and the nation's largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest - CMW spans a four-day period from March 11 to March 14, 2009 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.  For more information, visit www.cmw.net.

For Canadian Music Week information, please contact:
Bessie Bullard - Communications Director
T: 905.858.4747, E: bessie@cmw.net

For more information about Stephanie Mainville click here:  www.stephaniemainville.com

For more information about the Radio Star competition click here:  www.radiostar.ca