XOOM.com and Lilith Fair Search For New and Emerging Acoustic Talent In 16 Cities

Helping to further Lilith Fair's dedication to new and emerging talent, XOOM.com is sponsoring the XOOM.com/Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search. The search will make stops in 16 North American cities: New York; Los Angeles; Boston; Toronto; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Atlanta; Seattle; San Francisco; Dallas; Austin; Minneapolis; Detroit; Denver; Charlotte, NC; and Portland, OR. Each showcase will feature 20 female acoustic artists, and the winner in each city will be booked as the opening act on the Lilith Fair Village Stage in that market. In addition, Lilith Fair and XOOM.com are proud to present the first-ever talent search using MP3 technology.

Presented by XOOM.com, in conjunction with the market promoter and local radio stations, the 16 market talent search will be launched on April 29.

• Opening slot at the local Lilith Fair performance
• Lilith Fair merchandise
• Digital camera provided by XOOM.com
• Custom web site package hosted by Xoom.com, including: The posting of 10 songs in MP3 format on their Media Sharehouse; a home page with a chat room; artist or band name email addreses; Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music vols. 2 and 3

• One runner up will receive a Xoom.com web site package, the cds and two tickets to Lilith Fair.

*In markets where there will be two Lilith Fair shows, there will be two winners, each of whom will open one show. There will still be only one runner up.

Female-fronted acoustic acts, 3-piece maximum (for the complete list of rules, please go to the Lilith Fair website, www.lilithfair.com).

Bring or send a 2-song demo to the designated promoter address by the assigned deadline (deadlines and promoter addresses to be posted on the Lilith Fair website and will be advertised locally).

Up to twenty artists (one song each) will perform at each Talent Search event. Should there be more than twenty entrants in a market, the local promoter's booking staff will choose the twenty candidates.

The list of qualified entrants will be posted three days prior to the event on the Lilith Fair website, and will probably be posted by the promoter and the venue.

To select the winner, there will be a panel of judges at each talent search event who represent the local music community: an on-air personality from the presenting radio station; a local music journalist; a promoter representative; and a wild-card judge.

In addition to the 16 market search, Lilith Fair and XOOM.com are proud to present the first ever talent search using MP3 technology. The jewel in the crown of the Talent Search series, the XOOM.com/Lilith Fair winner will be flown to Chicago, IL to open the show on August 19.

For the online search, artists from anywhere in North America will submit one-song CDs and cassettes, which will be converted to MP3 files and posted to the Lilith Fair area of the XOOM.com Media Sharehouse (entries already MP3 format will also be accepted). Visitors to the site will download the MP3 files and vote on their favorite songs. From those songs, ten finalists will be selected, with the winner then being selected by a panel of online music business judges.

The Lilith Fair website address is www.lilithfair.com