Judging and Timelines

Official Showcase Coordinator:
Smitty Smith - [email protected]

Judging and Timeline

There will be fourteen juried Official Showcases at the 2023 FARM Conference on Friday and Saturday evening, October 20 & 21.

Official Showcase Coordinator: Smitty Smith at [email protected]

Please note that if you performed an Official Showcase at the 2022 FARM In Person Conference, you are not eligible to submit for an Official Showcase this year. You cannot perform both an Official Showcase and a DJ Showcase, nor Performance Lane, in the same year.

Deadline for submissions is midnight, end of day, Eastern time, June 1, 2023.

Submissions for the FARM 2023 Official Showcases are scored by active venue and house concert presenters, folk DJs, previous FARM Official Showcase artists (during the time they are ineligible to apply) and other industry professionals from around the FARM region.

Timeline for showcase submissions, scoring, notification and the FARM Conference:

• March 13, 2023 Official Showcase Submissions Open


• June 1, 2023 Official Showcase Submissions Close at Midnight Eastern Daylight Time at end of day


• July 1-14, 2023 Showcase artists and alternates notified and confirmed privately


• July 15, 2018 Showcase artists and alternates announced publicly, all submitting artists notified of final status


• October 20 - 23, 2023 FARM 2023 Conference in Naperville, IL (Chicagoland).