NPR Music is bringing back their Tiny Desk Contest, asking unknown bands and musicians all over the country to film themselves performing one song at a desk of their choice.
The contest will be sponsored for the second year by Lagunitas Brewing Company, and will secure a spot at the iconic performance space and a U.S. tour with NPR Music.
For the 2016 Contest winner, NPR Music has created a bigger prize package, which includes a four-part event tour with stops at NPR's Ask Me Another program and at Lagunitas breweries in Petaluma, CA and Chicago, IL and a final stop in Portland, OR. A panel of musicians from the Tiny Desk roster -- Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs, Lucius ladies Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, and soul artist Son Little -- will join Bob Boilen and All Songs Considered co-host Robin Hilton in selecting one Contest winner, to be announced in March 2016.
NPR Music will feature select video entries on the Contest Tumblr.
The 2016 NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest will be accepting entries from January 12, 2016 through February 2, 2016.