The winner of the Post-Gazette's second annual Pittsburgh Rocks competition is Carolina Shine, with the song "Whitewater Daydream."

The second- and third-place winners were Aviation Blondes ("Catch and Release") and the Maddie Georgi Band ("Go").

The three winning bands will perform on the Point State Park Stage at the Three Rivers Arts Festival at noon June 13. Carolina Shine also earns a music video to be produced by award-winning PG videographers Steve Mellon and Matt Freed.

Members of all three bands also will receive assorted other prizes to be given out at the concert.

With a Southern blues flavor, the band, from the Brentwood and Baldwin area, is fronted by 26-year-old singer Sam Fullerton, whose influences include Jeff Buckley, Chris Cornell and Gregg Allman, and guitarist Jeff Drentkiewicz, also 26, a former member of the band Tweed, who cites Carlos Santana and David Gilmour as favorites.

Carolina Shine is rounded out by bassist David Fix, a Berklee School of Music grad, classically trained pianist Ron Payne and drummer Dennis Young.

"The guys in the band are all very good, they're trained musicians -- they're going to be excited about this," Fullerton said yesterday.

Aviation Blondes, with a hint of '80s acts like Blondie and the Bangles, is an all-star band with scene veterans Steve Morrison (Affordable Floors), Rod Schwartz (11th Hour), Dave Klug (Hector in Paris), Daryl Cross with singers Lexi Rebert and Jen Catalina (both from Salena Catalina). The band formed in 2006 and has opened for Rocket from the Tombs, Tommy Keene and Lloyd Cole.

"The sound we're going for now is the Jam meets the Style Council meets the Pipettes," Schwartz said.

Georgi is a 16-year-old phenom who finished second in the CMT Music City Madness contest and just released her debut EP.

More than 100 bands submitted original songs in the competition, which were narrowed down to 12 finalists for an online vote. Only a handful of votes separated the three top bands. Thanks to the thousands of people who voted.