SOCAN’s ECHO Songwriting Prize: Only a few days left to cast your vote!

Thousands of music lovers have already voted for their favourite song in SOCAN's fifth annual ECHO Songwriting Prize, designed to identify what's next and what's best in current Canadian independent music. This prize will honour some of the most innovative and artistic songs created in the past year by emerging songwriters in Canada. The writer(s) of the winning song will receive a $5,000 CDN cash prize.

SOCAN invites you to continue voting for your favourite song, up until the deadline of 4:59 p.m. EST, Sept. 30. One lucky voter will win an Epiphone Ultra II Les Paul electric guitar.

The five nominated Canadian songs, as selected through a rigorous process by an independent panel of 10 music community tastemakers, are:

• “Albatross” written by Olga Goreas, Kevin Laing, Jace Lasek and Richard White, performed by The Besnard Lakes
• “Celestica” written by Ethan Kath and Alice Glass, performed by Crystal Castles
• “Destroyer” written by Catherine McCandless and Stephen Ramsay, performed by Young Galaxy
• “Hearts Trompet” written by Edo Van Breeman, Bryan Davies, Richard Saul and John Walsh, performed by Brasstronaut
• “Odessa” written by Dan Snaith, performed by Caribou

The Prix de la chanson ÉCHO, celebrating the songwriting talents of some of the best independent, up-and-coming Francophone songwriters in Canada, is launching concurrently.