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Thanks to everyone who joined us for and participated in the 4^th annual Linguavision Song Competition on Monday evening.  This year’s show featured 18 performances in 8 different languages and a range of genres from Julian’s machine-gun delivery of Frederic’s fast-paced “Oddloop”, to Euan’s bilingual acoustic rendition of “I only care about you” in Japanese/Mandarin, and Elif’s emotional treatment of K-Pop tune “Breathe”.  Also surprising was the number of performers – exactly 50% – who played their own instruments!

Click here for the evening’s program.

It certainly wasn’t the optimal timing for the rescheduled event landing, as it did, in the middle of exams, so it was great to see such a supportive crowd out to cheer on the singers.

Prizes were awarded in two separate categories: original songs and open category (covers of existing songs).

Original Category:

• 1^st Prize: Sarah Howard (French) for her original song “Des fois”
• 2^nd Prize: Liam McPherson (French) for his original song “Trois-cent pieds dans les airs”
• 3^rd Prize: Liam Hoselton (German) for his original song “Das Wunderschönste Ding”

Open Category:

• 1^st Prize: Katie Russell (Spanish)
• 2^nd Prize: Tarah Lemours (Korean)
• 3^rd Prize: Omar Garcia Flores (Mandarin Chinese)
• Honourable Mention: Yang Na (Japanese)
• Honourable Mention: Hooman Aghabeigi (English)

Audience Choice Awards:

• V & J (English)
• Emily (Korean)

Thanks also to all the volunteers who helped make the event run so smoothly, to emcee (and past performer) Charles Bougard for keeping things moving along, to our diverse multilingual panel of judges, and to the secret special guests – the Esperanto Circle – who appeared onstage as part of the music trivia quiz.  Speaking of which, congratulations to “Momo”, the pseudonymous winner of the quiz!

And, of course, thanks to our institutional sponsors: School of Linguistics & Language Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Department of French, and School for Studies in Art & Culture.

Watch our site for video from the event and news about next year’s contest.