Vote Now for Your Favorite Southern California Choir From Verizon's How Sweet the Sound

Vote Now for Your Favorite Southern California Choir From Verizon's How Sweet the Sound

Online Votes Help Determine the Southern California V CAST People's Choice Award-Winner

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Online voting is now open for Verizon's How Sweet the Sound Gospel Celebration, America's premier gospel music experience. Gospel music fans in Southern California can visit www.HowSweetTheSound.com to review and vote on video essays submitted by local choirs who will perform in the How Sweet the Sound regional celebration at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on October 1. Online votes will be combined with votes from the live audience at the Los Angeles concert to determine the V CAST People's Choice Award-winner. Online voting is open now through Wednesday, August 31.

For their video essays, choirs share their personal mission, the effects their music ministry has on their local communities and how they are helping others and uplifting those in need. Gospel enthusiasts can view each of the advancing choirs' essays and may vote for one regional finalist, once per day on www.HowSweetTheSound.com. At the close of online voting, the results will be tallied and announced on the website. Later, the online voting results will be combined with votes from the live audience - who will text to vote for their favorite choir based on the performances on stage. The combined results will decide the Southern California V CAST People's Choice Award-winner, who will receive a $5,000 prize at the live event.

Details about Verizon's How Sweet the Sound, including schedules, online voting, judging criteria and official rules, are available online at www.HowSweetTheSound.com.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Broadcast-quality B-Roll featuring 2010 Verizon's How Sweet the Sound Gospel Celebration coverage is available online. Log on to Verizon Wireless' Multimedia Library at http://verizonwireless.mediaseed.tv/Story.aspx?story=37569 to preview and request video segments, which can be received in newsrooms digitally or by tape.)

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's fastest and most advanced 4G network and largest and most reliable 3G network, and serves more than 94 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 82,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

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CONTACT: Ken Muche, Verizon Wireless, +1-949-286-8193, Ken.Muche@VerizonWireless.Com, Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/VZWKen

Web Site: http://www.HowSweetTheSound.com

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