Battle Of The Bands Competition Opens With Dhs20,000 Prize Up For Grabs

Dubai’s City Walk is to host a Battle of the Bands competition, so it’s a great opportunity to show off your skills and jumpstart your music career.

Part of City Walk Unplugged, the event is calling on students in musical groups to enter. Applications for this musical showdown are open until Tuesday October 31 and university bands are invited to submit a short video of their performance via TikTok, along with their details on City Walk’s official website.

The winning band of City Walk Unplugged Season 2 will take home a trophy and a cash prize of Dhs20,000. That’s not all, as the champions will have the opportunity to kickstart their career with a professional music video shoot.

City Walk will announce the 20 shortlisted bands on Monday November 6, and these groups will advance to the semi-finals.

The selected bands will battle it out for the first time on Friday November 17 and Saturday November 18, with those moving forward coming head-to-head for the grand finale on Saturday November 25 at the Fountain Area in City Walk.

Rockers will have to impress a set of judges from across the music industry including; Richard Hussein, A&R Consultant for MENA and Executive Producer for The Voice, The X Factor and Coke Studio Middle East, and Joelle Khoury Aouad, Casting Producer for The X Factor & The Voice and Kamil Abi Khalil, Head of Production at Anghami.

This is the second edition of City Walk Unplugged. If you want to find out more about entering with your bandmates, click here.

Entries open until Tue Oct 31. citywalk.ae/en/whats-on/university-bands-registration.