Thanks to everyone who joined us for and participated in the 4th 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!

Katie standing on the stage with a red background
Katie
Yang Na playing his guitar on the stage with a green background with stars
Yang Na
Sarah plays her guitar and sings while standing on the stage with a red background
Sarah
Joe waves to the crowd while Ruoxin plays the guitar with a blue background and stars
Joe & Ruoxin
Euan in his pink shirt sits and plays his blue guitar against a backdrop of purple sky with stars
Euan
Liam plays his guitar intently wearing a white "Giants" baseball shirt.
Liam H.
Aki dressed in a flowered kimono stands and sings onstage with a red background
Aki
Liam belting out his song while playing his guitar against a blue backdrop.
Liam M.
A calm Hooman sits in a chair playing his guitar.
Hooman
Emily plays her guitar onstage with a red background
Emily
Omar belts out his song while playing his guitar
Omar
Crystal stands singing against a night sky.
Crystal
Jinu sings against a background of stars

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).

Prize winners from Linguavision 2018

Original Category:

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

Open Category:

  • 1st Prize: Katie Russell (Spanish)
  • 2nd Prize: Tarah Lemours (Korean)
  • 3rd 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.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018  |  Categories: Modern Languages