The annual music competition of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, seeks to unearth, develop and expose the musical talents of our people and to preserve our cultural heritage in music, and these serve to inspire our musicians to achieve higher levels of performance as well as to provide a medium of expression for the release of three creative energy. The competition is open to all Jamaican schools, churches, service clubs and community groups.The age limits are as follows:

Over the years the competition has produced many outstanding musical talents, who today continue to make their mark on the entertainment market both locally and internationally. The department continues to find new ways of improving what we do. We will be introducing for 2006 new instruments namely: Steel Pans, which is growing, Hand Bells which is slowly catching on and percussions. With the implementation of CSME the music department will also be focussing on making our programmes more Regional based. We want to position ourselves as the flagship for music in the Region.