Songwriting News--3.28.12

Nashville Songwriting Legend Honored by Music City Who's Who at Charity Gala Country Weekly Music industry executive Joe Galante, Gaylord Entertainment CEO Colin Reed, legendary singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, Vanderbilt Health System CEO Dr. C. Wright Pinson and Healthways co-founder and Nashville Predators co-owner and CEO Tom ... See all stories on this topic »

The Steaksmith at El Gancho, A SantaFe.com Featured Restaurant and Company ... Broadcast Newsroom Soon after her lessons started, Eryn was given a guitar and she found her love for songwriting. Since that early time in her music career, Eryn has produced two independent original albums including the 10-track album Bare and the 11-track album And ... See all stories on this topic »

Somewhere in Time, With New Songwriting Team, Will Get NYC Reading; Andrew ... Playbill.com By Adam Hetrick Scott Schwartz will helm a March 31 industry reading of the new Broadway-aimed musical Somewhere in Time, based on Richard Matheson's 1980 romantic film of the same title. Producer Ken Davenport (Godspell, Altar Boyz) presents the ... See all stories on this topic » Playbill.com

Know your Dallas Green from your Dan Mangan Vancouver Sun Dan Mangan Species: West Coast indie-folk-rock singer-songwriter General info: The buzz started for Mangan with his last album, the Polaris-nominated Nice Nice Very Nice, and got even louder with the Dylan-esque songwriting on the followup, Oh Fortune. See all stories on this topic »

Content for Young Ears, Compliments of David Rees San Diego Reader His composition "Mac and Cheese" made the finals in the 2011 International Songwriting Competition in the children's music category. "Mac and Cheese" was originally written for an iPad game. That's what Rees does: he composes and produces music for ... See all stories on this topic »

Ben E. King, 'Stand By Me' and Lance Freed to receive special SongHall awards Examiner.com All three awards were announced today by Songwriters Hall of Fame Chairman Jimmy Webb. The Towering Song Award is presented to the creators of an individual song that has influenced our culture in a unique way over many years. See all stories on this topic »

Institute Launches New Songwriting Degree Your-Story.org (press release) The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance has announced the launch of their new three year BA Honours degree in Songwriting. As part of the Institute's rapidly growing Songwriting programme, the course is focused on developing each songwriter's ... See all stories on this topic »

Part-Time Poet Willamette Week Samson is equal parts poet, investigative journalist and activist—he began his music career playing bass in seminal Canadian punk outfit Propagandhi—and in the last decade he has become one of the finest songwriters of his generation. See all stories on this topic » Willamette Week

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Missoula Filmmaker Creates Multi-Cultural Songwriting Documentary Montana meets Spain in a soon-to-be-released short film about two songwriters who live 5000 miles apart from one another yet are still attempting to create. 1075zoofm.com/missoula-filmmaker-creates-multi-cultural-so...