Thank you for registering for the 2024 Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition.  You are to record 3 audio only tunes in your preferred key.  The tunes can be picked from the tracks on the  Album Ella Loves Cole.   When you are finished recording, please email programdirector@bluesalley.org to receive a dropbox link to upload the tracks to.  For this round only audio tracks will be accepted.  Please separate the submissions into 3 separate tracks.  The deadline for submitting the tracks is January 31, 2024 at Noon Eastern Standard Time. 

After that the judges will begin evaluating the submissions and the finalists will be announced in early March 2024.  If you become a finalist you will record videos of the 3 tunes for the final round of evaluations. The deadline for the video submissions of the finalists will be March 27, 2024. 

The winner will be announced on April 20, 2024 at the Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition event in Washington, DC.