The Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is partnering with the Foo Fighters, CBS Interactive and YouTube on this year’s “My Grammy Moment” contest.
After doing a similar contest that put an unknown singer on stage with Justin Timberlake during last year’s Grammy Awards, this year’s search is looking for classical strings, woodwind or brass players to play along with the Foo Fighters during the 2008 Grammy Awards on Feb. 10.
Starting today until Jan. 20, applicants can submit a 60-second solo piece from the Foo Fighters’ Grammy-nominated song “The Pretender” to YouTube. A Grammy blue-ribbon panel of recording industry experts will choose a pool of 45 performers to be whittled down to 20 by site voters.
From those 20, three will be chosen, and the winner will be announced moments before performing on the Grammy stage.
The videos are located at www.youtube.com/mygrammymoment.