Canvas Prints contest winner!

Happy Monday morning! I managed to move a boatload of stuff over the weekend, and I’m officially all up in Zack’s apartment now. Our treat for ourselves last night was looking through all of your photo submissions, and we had some really beautiful shots to choose from that definitely made it a tough decision.

For the Austin bands contest, the photo that ultimately won our hearts was one taken by blogger extraordinaire Sarah Vasquez, over at So Many Bands. It’s a gorgeous photo of Ian and Stephanie from Little Lo, bathed in stage light. Little Lo are not only one of our favorite local bands, but they hold sentimental value for Zack and me, because we saw them on our first date. It’s also a complimentary photo to the one we picked for the Festival Crashers contest. So congrats to Sarah, and we’ll be sure to post a photo of the canvases when they’re up on our wall!

Photo by Sarah Vasquez

Win a canvas of your photograph and decorate my home!

My lovely readers, some of you may know that I am about to move in with my amazing and also-music-writer boyfriend, Zack Teibloom from Festival Crashers. We are excited to share a space (and a bitchin’ vinyl collection) together, but we need some help with pulling together awesome stuff for our walls. Serendipitously for us, the fine people at Canvas Prints have offered to print out some concert photos so we can rockify our apartment.

This is where you come in. We are each hosting a separate contest for Austinites with concert photos, wherein we will pick winners and not only will your fabulous pics get put up in our place, but you, too, will take home a canvas of your winning photograph. The canvas the winner receives will be 14″x11″. Sound good? Read on for rules:

1. You’ve gotta do some ‘liking’ of Canvas Prints, because we like them for letting us run this contest. PLUS, by ‘liking’ them on Facebook, every single one of you gets 50% off of your next order, and free shipping. So no matter what, everyone’s a winner.
2. You’ve gotta submit a photo of one of these Texas bands, because – let’s be honest, we want our favorites displayed. (This is where the photo contests differ. Check out Festival Crashers for more winning.) Here are your choices:

• The Bright Light Social Hour
• The Black & White Years
• Little Lo
• Royal Forest
• Brazos (Old skool!/Extinct  )
• Sarah Jaffe
• The Boxing Lesson
• Spoon

The contest runs from now until July 15, the day before The Great Migration, and we’ll announce the winners post-move that Monday. Please email your entries to: caitlin AT austinwritesmusic DOT com. You can submit up to 10 photos, and make sure you link directly to your submission (not just your general photo site for us to peruse).

Also, for more chances to win free shwag, be sure to follow Canvas Prints on Twitter.