34th Annual GMA Music in the Rockies

Rocky Mountains, Colo. – GMA’s Music in the Rockies is out to change lives both professionally AND spiritually and the American Bible Society and Compassion International are partners in that cause.  The two organizations will present prizes with a ministry heart when the GMA Music in the Rockies, the music community’s premier talent competition and training experience convenes in Estes Park, Colo. in August.

The American Bible Society will celebrate songwriters who incorporate the Bible’s life-changing message into their music by presenting a new songwriting competition at Music in the Rockies, while Compassion International will offer one registrant a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in an international missions trip to meet and share their music with Compassion-supported children and families.   

“For some artists the goal is not a recording career but another calling; for some it will be sharing their music out on the mission field and for others, striving to become Biblically-informed songwriters who will create music that both inspires and transforms lives.  We are grateful that ABS and Compassion have partnered with us at Music in the Rockies to encourage our registrants in whatever passion they follow,” said John W. Styll, president and CEO of Gospel Music Association (GMA).

The ABS Scripture Song category, which will be held in addition to GMA Music in the Rockies’ other talent and songwriting contests, will give awards to songwriters who adapt, derive or base music on Scripture from both the Old and New Testaments.  The awards for this category of the competition will go to songwriters in three different classes - amateur, semi-pro, and professional – and will receive an engraved Bible from the American Bible Society for each writer or co-writer; a guaranteed track on an ABS recording project to be released by a major record label and distribution company and a crystal sculpture by Steuben Glass.