The Sir Charles Blues Lab Songwriting Contest final is nearing completion - and the five winners are to be announced this month. Hundreds of outstanding song entries were received, and Roger Waters said: "Well done to everybody - a marvelous showing!"

The Sir Charles Blues Lab is a non-profit making organisation collaborating with schools and community centers across the nation to provide young people with opportunities to learn and master the Blues as an enriching after school activity. We announced back in September that a national songwriting contest for kids had been launched, with the entries judged by Ray Charles, Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Alicia Keys, Willie Nelson, Sir Charles (keyboard player, songwriter, and founder of the Sir Charles Blues Lab) Willie Hill (saxophone player and President of the Music Educator's National Conference), and the one and only Roger Waters!

Full details of the contest and the work of the lab at www.BluesLab.org.