{"id":7327,"date":"2016-07-04T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2016-07-04T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:56:24","slug":"surrogate-bands-winner-nss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2016\/07\/surrogate-bands-winner-nss\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate Bands winner: NSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NSS <\/strong>of Derby, N.Y., has won our 6th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, a stage-name for <strong>Noel Stefan Stoyanoff<\/strong>, won with his recording of Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Paranoid Eyes,&#8221; and receives $200 in Floyd merchandise from <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.pinkfloyd.com\">shop.pinkfloyd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noel describes himself as &#8220;a singer, songwriter, software and recording engineer, storyteller, producer, studio and live bassist for hire, DJ, cynic, music evangelist, music historian and collector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his Facebook page, he thanked a number of people who contributed to the track and accompanying video (below): <strong>Jeffrey Shank<\/strong>,<strong> Robert Browning<\/strong>,<strong> Tim OConnell<\/strong>,<strong> Mike Criscione<\/strong>,<strong> Damon Tedesco<\/strong>,<strong> Ashley Jones <\/strong>and<strong> Richard Stamp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Second prize, awarded by random drawing, went to <strong>Todd McKeague<\/strong> of Westfield, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who entered this year, and watch for our 7th annual contest coming in Spring 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KsOYip1AY08\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSS of Derby, N.Y., has won our 6th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest. The artist, a stage-name for Noel Stefan Stoyanoff, won with his recording of Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Paranoid Eyes,&#8221; and receives $200 in Floyd merchandise from shop.pinkfloyd.com. Noel describes himself as &#8220;a singer, songwriter, software and recording engineer, storyteller, producer, studio and live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}