Sound Off Live! is a live audition for up-and-coming bands or musicians interested in performing at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival. At Sound Off Live!, competing bands/musicians have fifteen minutes to perform three songs in front of an audience and a panel of judges. The winners are guaranteed a performance slot at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival. Applications, complete with music samples, are due no later than Tuesday, August 15, 2017.

[Only bands/musicians from the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia region that have never been booked at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival are eligible to apply. Applicants must keep the following dates open: March/April 2018 - exact date TBA (Light City), July 20-22, 2018 (Artscape) and September 28-30, 2018 (Baltimore Book Festival).]