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On the Road in New Mexico

Challenge to Oprah

Brian Scott Video

Cindy's Updates

Cindy's Karaoke Healing Mission

Sound Choice and KIAA update

Lebo's Cincinnati

Online voting

 

New Mexico Map

 

ON THE ROAD IN NEW MEXICO
 I'll be hitting the road this weekend heading for Ruidoso and Roswell.  Brian Scott, the KWCUSA 2009 winner who went to the Karaoke World Championship in Finland to represent the USA. I have been invited by KJ's Ken Kessler and Lucky Duncan to Judge a preliminary competition at the Elk's Lodge in Ruidoso on Saturday, February 20 at 7pm.  It's open to the public so come on up and join the Karaoke competition or if you don't want to compete you can enjoy the talent and support your favorite Karaoke singer.
On February 22, I will be meeting with Joe Vargas who works for the city of Roswell.  We will be meeting with the production crew who will be filming and live-streaming the 2 day NM State Championship at the Performing Arts Center at ENMU-R on June 12th and 13th.  We will also be looking at the Grand Ball room at the Best Western Sally Post Inn where we will be hosting the "Last-Chance" preliminary competition on June 11th and a "After competition" Karaoke party on June 12th.  Sally Port will be putting together a hotel package for all the Karaoke singers and their family, friends, and fans so people can get their reservations early.

 

Challenge to Oprah Show

No word from Oprah yet. We know it is busy time of year for them so we will give them a little time.
Karaoke World Championships USA has sent a challenge to the producers at the Oprah Show. Wendell Payne President of Karaoke World Championships USA says,

"We had discussed our competition and all the great things about karaoke with two producers prior to their decision to run 'Oprah's Karaoke Challenge'. We were very happy that they portrayed Karaoke in a positive way and provided the opportunity to karaoke singers. However we felt that a few weeks of qualification was not comparable to our ten months of nationwide competition. So we made the decision to challenge the Oprah Show to allow our 2010 National Champions, 1 male and 1 female to compete on her next Karaoke Challenge."

KWCUSA anxiously awaits their decision. KWCUSA is providing the opportunity for karaoke singers across the country to compete and ultimately win the chance to represent our country in world competition in September 2010. Local qualifying competitions began in October and will continue to run until May 31, 2010. State and Regional competitions will follow in June and July.

 

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Special Thanks to our sponsors

PLEASE SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT KARAOKE
Shiner Bock NM SponsorI want to thank all the readers for taking the time to read the KWCUSA newsletter.  I also want to take this opportunity to thank Shiner Bock Brewery, our NM Platinum Sponsor 2010.  We are proud to say that this is the second year that Shiner Bock has sponsored the NM Karaoke Championship.  Shiner Bock's sponsorship includes product exposure at all the NM State Preliminary competitions, the NM State Championship competitions at the Performing Arts Center in Roswell (June 12-13) and the KWCUSA Region #8 competitions at the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino in Santa Fe (July 16-17).  If you like beer, please give Shiner Bock a try.  Remember that Shiner Bock supports Karaoke so we Karaoke singers should support Shiner Bock.  Please drink responsibly.

 

Brian Scott Brian Scott Shares His KWCUSA Experience

Brian shared his KWCUSA experience on video. Take a good listen to the background music. It is a song written and recorded by Brian.

Check out the video 

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Cindy's KWCUSA and KWCUSA.NM VENUE UPDATES

Here's an update on some new KWCUSA Preliminary competition venues that signed up recently.

Usual Pub in Houston, TX -

www.theusualpub.com. This Pub is going to be an exciting venue to watch, that's right you will be able to watch every KWC Preliminary semi-final and the 2-day final competitions live on the internet.  Thanks to James and Jodi, owners of Boyte Booking Entertainment Agency who will be producing the live-stream and hosting the Karaoke competitions.  This coming Thursday on February 19, the first Preliminary semi-final competition at the Usual Pub will be live-streamed on www.karaokehouston.com at about 9-10pm CST (Central Standard Time).  I'll be there watching the live-stream to check out the competition so come say "hi" in the chat room" 

Corazon in Santa Fe, NM - www.corazonsantafe.com
Corazon's is reported to be the new hot spot in Santa Fe thanks to the partnership between Mikey Baker, a longtime Santa Fe musician, Soren Uhi and Dan Oesterling.  This venue has great food reviews and comes compete with a large stage.  competition schedule TBA.

 

Campos in Deming, NM. Chef Campos has a reputation for his excellent Mexican and Italian food.  He also claims that they have great singers in Deming.  I agree with Chef Campos, last year's Preliminary competition in Deming showed us that "Deming does have talent" and a lot of it.  competition schedule TBA.

 

For a complete list of all New Mexico Preliminary competition venues go to www.karaokeenchantment.com. I need some help from you KJ's and Karaoke singers.  I'm looking for Karaoke venues in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.  Please let me know where the Karaoke venues are in your state and I will contact them about becoming a KWC Preliminary Hosting Venue.  Each venue can hold as many competitions as they choose till May 31st and will send their top 12 singers (6 female & 6 male) to the State Championship.  To see what KWC is all about check out the KWCUSA promo video at www.kwcusa.net. Sign up your Karaoke venue or get more information by contacting me at 575.894.3722 or cindy@kwcusa.net

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Cindy's Healing Mission 

 

My Karaoke Healing Mission
Anyone who knows me knows that I am very passionate about Karaoke, plainly put, Karaoke is my life.  For the past 5 years, I have been working with people who have suffered from Alzheimer's, Depression, PSTD, Food and Drug Addictions, Stroke victims and more.  I have learned that Karaoke has made positive changes in these peoples lives and that Doctors are prescribing Karaoke to people for therapy.  For more information about the Karaoke Healing Mission please view my video at this link: http://www.karaokeenchantment.com/mission.html 
Please help me spread the word about the positive healing results of Karaoke and if you have a Karaoke story you would like to share with me, please email me at stories@karaokeenchantment.com

Sound Choice 

Sound Choice becomes co-sponsor 

 

 Sound Choice has joined KWCUSA as sponsors. More details will be made available in the next newsletter. One of the key points of the sponsorship is to provide legitimate KJs that are part of KWCUSA with substantial discounts. For our part, KWCUSA has  joined KIAA in support of all karaoke manufacturers and legitimate KJs. We will be announcing special offers for legitmate KJs shortly.

Lebo's Host Cincinnati KWCUSA competition 

Lebo's of Cincinnati began hosting their Karaoke World Championship USA competiton February 9th and will continue for 9 weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Winners from each night will advance to their finals. Lebo's will qualify 6 males and 6 females to advance to state competition.

 

Lebo's Bar
5869 Kellogg Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45230-7144
(513) 232-1763

Online Voting

 

We will soon provide the opportunity for online participation. Bare with us as we work out the details. We are teaming up with some technology partners to expand the opprtunity to everyone we can.

  

KWCUSA announces a public challenge to select National Wildcard Karaoke Singers. Registered KWCUSA members will be allowed to vote for 1 male and 1 female to participate in the national competition. The karaoke singers you vote for must be qualified KWCUSA regional competitors.

 

 KWCUSA membership registrations are being accepted now and more details will be announced at a later date. The intention is to allow karaoke singers and fans to select two people from across the country to qualify for the national championship. Only KWCUSA members will be permitted to vote and membership is free.

 

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We do this for the singers. By creating a fair national and international competion for you we provide a great opportunity for the 15 million karaoke singers out there. This is the Real American Idol. We thank everyone that is part of this great event.

Sincerely,
Wendell Payne
Karaoke World Championships