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Amy Obenski's song "Carousel", was featured on a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy!. Candy Cameron has the first Chris Cagle single for his upcoming CD. The song is called "What Kinda Gone" This is Candy's first single.. She's also had cuts with Reba McEntire, Kenny Rogers, Michelle Wright, Lee Greenwood, Michelle Poe, Josh Gracin and a number of others. . . "None of it would be happening if it wasn't for WCS . . . THANK YOU!!" - Candy Cameron Cathy Kent (Serum) and Cheryl Ashton won 2nd place in the country division in the Uni-Song contest. They are now up for the Peoples Choice Award on their website for their song "Cinderella in Satin". "WCS long-time members The Kimberly Trip have signed a 4 year, non-exclusive agreement with 102 music group to distribute their latest CD "Popularity Contest" throughout Asia on Sony/BMG records. Already a fixture on FM radio in the Philipines, this will ensure the non-web-based music fans of Asia a way to purchase physical CDs from the band, while not imposing restrictions on their plans for US distribution in the following months." Lanny Sherwin's song from his new children's CD, I Like Being Me!, just won 1st Place in the Unisong International Songwriting Contest, which includes $1,000 ... not bad for a song entitled "Stinky Feet!" Joel Evans & J.Elle have a song in the new Parker Posey film, "Broken English". Thanks to Marc Ferrari's MasterSource catalog, the tune is featured as both source cue & underscore in a bar scene. http://www.brokenenglishfilm.com/ The Friday, July 27 episode of "Painkiller Jane" on the Sci-Fi channel will include Joel & Ken McKenzie's song "Jumpin' at the Juke Joint". Thanks to Tyler Bacon and Position Music for this placement and also for the use of Joel & Byron Walls' song, "That's When I'll Stop Loving You", in Rob Zombie's re-imagining of the movie "Halloween". Opens August 31st at a theater near you! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/ "Save Me," Vanessa Van Spall's infectious, Fiona Apple-flavored first single from her debut Cotton-Poly Blend, just hit radio across the country on May 28, and it has already entered the FMQB‚s Top 10 at #10 alongside hit-makers Paul McCartney, Rob Thomas, Bon Jovi and Gwen Stefani. Laura Zucker was selected by the Kerrville New Folk Festival for Emerging Artists. WCS congratulates her for being selected! Rebb Firman's "This Cowboy Is An Indian" was recorded by Ronnie Bear on Aspirion Records (label with Collin Raye and Robin English). Placement by Antoinette Olesen. Thanks to Marc Ferrari & MasterSource, Joel Evans' performance of his piano composition, "Rose Colored Glass" is featured in the Nicolas Cage #1 Box Office hit Motion Picture, "Ghost Rider". Danny Scherr has performed at CBGB’s, opened for Soul Asylum, and received college radio airplay around the US. Recently his song “Maybe You’re Gone” was featured in Hollywood movie “The Girl Next Door”. For more information and show dates check out www.dannyscherr.com, or www.myspace.com/dannyscherr. Larry Potts had two songs selected recently for The Sebastopol Center for the Arts Music and Words song contest: Merit Award for "Hats" and "Best of Show" for the jazz tune "Late in the Game". Chris Donohoe "Across His Back" finished as a finalist in the NSAI/CMT song contest. Joel Evans continuing success stories: Tomorrow night's (10-27) episode of "NUMB3RS" http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/ will include his song, "No Easy Way To Say Goodbye". (Co-written with Lyricist J.Elle) Thanks to Tyler Bacon at Position Music for arranging this placement. "Life in the Slow Lane" by Jeffrey Scharf and Jerome Rossen appears on Roberta Donnay's new CD What's Your Story produced by jazz legend Orrin Keepnews. Alexandra Monir has been signed by Interscope Records and is slated to have Glenn Ballard produce her first record! Len Bakker has been writing for and working with Alexandra to this point. Hopefully, some of their co-writes will end up on the record! Joel Evans has two songs in the new Rob Reiner movie, "Rumor Has It". Starring Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, the film opened on Christmas Day 2005. "Until We Meet Again" and "What's Become of My Heart?" are heard under a scene shot at the Fairmont Hotel in SF. Placement by MasterSource. Nominee Itzhak Volansky is the winner of the Best Music Video at the San Francisco Music Award 2005 at the Warfield Theatre. The annual award show was held on Oct. 20. The winning song is “My Parachute Won’t Open”. Itzhak performs regularly at the Riptide Bar and McDonalds Booksop in San Francisco. Itzhak’s other songs are “I Shot the Lawyer but I Did Not Shoot the Secretary” and “Imagine There’s No Yoko”.
"Wedding Crashers", the New Line Cinema comedy starring Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson features the song,"Oh, Love's a Lovely Thing", written by member Joel Evans. The recording was co-produced by Scott Nickoley & Jamie Dunlap, and the placement wasby MasterSource. Joel Evans has songs in “The Perfect Man”, starring Hillary Duff & Heather Locklear Placement by Position Soundtrack Services, and “The Deal”, starring Christian Slater and Selma Blair Placements by MasterSource. Jeffrey Scharf - The Banana Slugs Song was signed by Plum Pictures for the movie The Real Baxter. JOEL EVANS' song, "Vanishing Romance", has been licensed into the upcoming film, "Smile". Starring Mika Boorem, (Blue Crush), Sean Astin & Beau Bridges, it opens in LA & SF on April 8th. Placement by Heavy Hitters. Also his song, "No Easy Way To Say Goodbye", cowritten with J.Elle, aired on February 24th on the Fox hit series, "The OC." Representation by Tyler Bacon of Position Music. South Bay OM managers BEV BARNETT and GREG NEWLON were finalists in the country category of the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards for their song "If I Can't Sing with You This Christmas." www.inacoustic.com CMT (Country Music Television) featured "Beach Down in the Islands", by RICK GLAZE on episode 2 of the popular show Cowboy U. The segment ran Friday November 19th, Saturday Nov. 20 and Sunday Nov. 21. KARMINA did a live, on-the-air interview on Monday, November 29 on Sacramento's premiere rock stationÑ100.5 fm the ZONE-for the awesome Shawn and Jeff morning show! In addition to a fun back and forth with Shawn and Jeff about what's new with Karmina, they played their new song "Free", (a break up song). Also, help Karmina by calling the ZONE to request either "Maybe" or "Crazy" from Karmina's new cd! The request line is: 1-916-766-1005
JOEL EVANS' song "Until We Meet Again" was licensed for the premiere episode of the new ABC series "Desperate Housewives" which aired on Sunday, October 3rd. Placement was by Marc Ferrari & MasterSource Hit By Lightning by AMY PINE has been chosen to be on The Goddess Within CD Project. Proceeds from the sale of the compilation CD will benefit battered women's shelters. "Lost And Found" by RICK ROWAN can be heard in MTV's "The Best of Making The Band II," which is also available on home video. Rowan www.broadjam.com/rickrowan WCS Member RACHEL GARLIN recently won the Newport Folk Festival's Talent Search! Her prize was a Gibson guitar and a spot on the main stage at Newport. COURTNEY C. PATTY and LARRY POTTS were both accepted into the Maryhill Songfest Songwriting Competion to be held on labor day weekend in Goldendale, Washington. Like Kerrville 32 contestants vie for 6 finalist positions and a grand prize winner. NATALIA BORTOLOTTI and NELSON SAID, both WCS members and Songfellowz Songwriting company owners, had two songs place as finalists in the POP category of VH1 song of the year contest (www.songoftheyear.com ). Natalia's song "Your only other" placed in February (2004) while Nelson's song "In a little more time" placed in March (2004). Songfellowz is SCOTT SMITH, Nelson Said, Natalia Bortolotti and CLIFF SPENCER. Scott Smith is co-writer of both songs. "Be Your Own Hero," written by Natalia Bortolotti andScott Smith, was a Finalist in the John Lennon SongContest. It also won Honorable Mention in the WCS Song Contest. JOEL EVANS' song, Top Floor Por Favor can be heard in the new Will Smith movie, "I,Robot". Opening July 16th, the Fox release bumped "Spiderman 2" from the top box office slot. Placement by Marc Ferrari and MasterSource. DILLON KHOSLA's song If We Could Be was placed in the new movie "The Window Theory" - placement by Marcus Barone the Music Supervisor for the project. LEN BAKKER's song Blin' Syde, a co-write with Octaviano, was used in a recent JAG episode on CBS. This the third use of this song. Placement by Access Music (Scott Urquhart). NORMA RODRIGUEZ- spoke the lyrics for a song called Frida Kahlo by a local band, Latin Soul Syndicate. Jeff Pistel is the one who hired her to contribute lyrics & her voice on a demo he was marketing to find Film, TV & commercial work. Two years later, in February, she received a call from him: "Remember I said I would let you know if anything happened with the song..."The song is in the movie "The Whole Ten Yards" starring Bruce Willis & Mathew Perry. Composer is John Debney (just finishing his work on.."The Passion" you know, Mel Gibson's movie! Mr. Debney heard her voice on the song Frida Kahlo that was being considered for the movie... he said "find me that voice" so they did, She said yes, they flew her down for one day (6 hours later, she translated Mr Debney's english lyrics to latin, then laid them down in 3 hours, 18 tracks later) The Frida Kahlo Song made it into the 1st part of the movie, as well as a latin coro track where Norma is the only female voice but didn't write the lyrics (in the beginning of movie & the last track of the film as credits close). MICA LEE WILLIAMS recently received the honor of being named Finalist by the Song of the Year ( http://www.songoftheyear.com/ ) songwriting contest. Song of the Year is an international songwriting contest supporting VH-1âs Save the Music Foundation. The Song of the Year judges are some of the biggest names in music including many Grammy Award winners. A couple of years back, long-time WCS songwriter TONY VANDERSTEEN (SBOM manager) was awarded the job of collaborating with San Jose playright Dale Porter on a new musical called Necklace. Last month the musical was accepted by the Theatre in the Mountains at Loma Prieta for their 2005 spring musical. Tony has written the 17 song score and is currently working with renowned local musical director Bob Russell in orchestrating the entire musical. KARMINA took part in a fund raiser for Sacramento radio station The Zone FM 100.5 their song ``Favorite Fantasy" was aired during the Shawn & Jeff morning show. There is a MP3 of Favorite Fantasy on Karmina's website http://www.karmina.us They will be giving a on-the-air interview, taping it next Friday (July 2). It will probably air on the Shawn & Jeff morning show on July 3, 4, 5 or 6th. FYI - WCS Member JEFF SUITS is now the in-house repair person at Bronstein Music, 363 Grand, SSF. ``Maybe You're Gone," written by DANNY SCHERR and performed by Binocular (who had a self-titled album out on Maverick in 2001), was placed in the first end credit slot of 20th Century Fox movie ``The Girl Next Door", starring Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsh and Timothy Olyphant. Chris Douridas, host of ``New Ground" on LA's KCRW, was the music supervisor for the film who suggested the song to director Luke Greenfield, having first heard Binocular's demo of ``Maybe You're Gone" while working as an A&R rep at Dreamworks. JOHN LESTER is the opening act and bassist for Gretchen Peters' upcoming UK/Ireland Tour (May 20-June 7). As you know they met in 1999 at the WCS conference. Tour dates are available at www.johnlestermusic.com Nationally syndicated reality series, ``Starting Over", used JOEL EVANS' song, ``Yesterday's News", on March 5th. The lyrics were written by Sandy Sherman. The show airs locally on NBC11. Joel?s song, ``Oh Love's A Lovely Thing", was heard in the March 15th episode of the Primetime NBC series ``Las Vegas". Both placements by Marc Ferrari at MasterSource. KARMINA's song ``Favorite Fantasy", written by Kelly, won first runner up in the national John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the ROCK category. JOEL EVANS' song, ``Dreamtime", was heard in the Feb. 18th episode of ``The OC" on FOX. Placement by Marc Ferrari at MasterSource. Joel also had a song, co-written with Lisa Aschmann, titled ``Tickling a Tiger" in CBS's ``Hack" on Feb. 21st. Tyler Bacon of Position Music arranged the placement. ANTONIA VENEZIA had a song used in ``The Greatest Challenge" by Almaden Films - By Writer-Director Shawn Flanagan. It's a short. They used her song, ``Another Day" in a bar scene . Antonia is singing on the track. It was shown at ``Cinequest Film Festival" in San Jose in March. LARRY POTTS was a Finalist in John Lennon Song Contest ``Ballad Of Poker Alice" and won $1000.00 prize. One of three finalists in the folk category. Antonia Venezia's original song, ``Another day", is in an independent film called, ``The Greatest Challenge". The film will be shown at CineQuest Film Festival in San Jose, CA in March 2004. Check it out if you can. Deborah Crooks's song, Dream Me, was selected for inclusion on the 2004 Rockgrl magazine Discoveries CD. From Nyree - Hello! I'm the author of "Booking, Promoting & Marketing Your Music" and "The Complete Guide to House Concerts" and I'm currently working on my 3rd book for musicians. I'm looking for professional musicians and songwriters who would be kind enough to share their best tips for success with me for possible inclusion in my new book. Please email me at musicsuccessbook@yahoo.com if you've got some wisdom to share. (i.e. Narrow focus? Broad focus? Thinking outside the box? Working with other musicians?etc.) Whatever you think the #1 reason is for your success in the music business, I'd like to hear it so that I can share it with thousands of other musicians. During the week of Oct 9-16 WCSA member LEN BAKKER had 3 song placements on network television: ``Blin'Syde" on Jake 2.0 and Knock First, and ``That Day Has Come" also on Knock First; an ABC Family reality series. Placements courtesy of Scott Urquhart; Access Music. KEN RISLING'S song, ``Jonestown: The Unanswered Question" was featured on the radio broadcast ```Do, Lord, Remember Me': The People's Temple and Jonestown 25 Years Later", Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 8 - 11 p.m. EST, on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM (the New York tri-state BRUCE EDE and LYNN SMITH signed a two-year song-plugging agreement with Dan Hodges of Large Opportunity Music, Nashville, for their song ``Bittersweet." ANTONIA VENEZIA did a recent video shoot for the Haunted House in Vallco Shopping Center (Cupertino) for ``3D Fear Factory"...She plays a news reporter and gets attacked by a monster in the video. It will be looping in the Haunted House from October 9th through October 31st. Go check it out! Boo! It's a scary place! Reba McEntire cut a song CANDY CAMERON co-wrote with Sharon Vaughn and Chip Davis. She also has Alison Kraus and Dan Timinski singing on it. It's called ``Once You've Learned to be Lonely". ?Luther Vandross' album `DANCE WITH MY FATHER' (which includes `BUY ME A ROSE' published by Checks To Rex (Rex Benson)) debuted at #1 on the Pop charts with sales of 441,856 for the first official week. Rex will be at WCSA's C:C:C Songwriters Conference looking for songs! ?``Just A Kiss" by JOEL EVANS will be used on the July 18th program MONK (USA/ABC), placement by Mastersource. Marc Ferrari from Mastersource will be at C:C:C this year looking for songs for placement in film and TV. Also, ``In A Dream' was used in this season's premiere of SEX IN THE CITY" a co-write with Sandy Sherman, placement by Position Music. JOAN MARTIN and ARLENE MORDENO have signed a publishing contract with Rex Benson Music for their song ``Sweet Velvet Kiss." JOAN MARTIN has signed a publishing contract with Silver Note Music for her song ``It Ain't California." "Conectados," the Spanish version of NCSA members JOAN MARTIN and ARLENE MORDENO's song "Connected," has been recorded on the album "La Banda de Cantanino" by the group KtrasK on Warner Music Argentina. The album has already reached #1 in Argentina and has sold over 70,000 copies. Joan Martin and Nyree Belleville's song "Somewhere in Between" has been signed to a contract with Rex Benson Music. PETER LAMSON and BRUCE EDE's song Laughing in The Dark aired on March 20th in the film ``Winding Roads" on the Lifetime Movie channel. Placement by MasterSource. In late June of 2003, MICHAEL MCNEVIN will be touring through Cooperstown, NY where he will play a concert at the Baseball Hall Of Fame theater. At the concert, the Hall Of Fame will have a ceremony for Michael's song ``The Pride Of Niles Centerville Little League", which will then be added to the Official Hall Of Fame Baseball Song Collection. THEN, Michael's Etch A Sketch drawing of that little league song (which he actually drew while on tour in Cooperstown two years ago), will be hung in the Hall Of Fame Art gallery (along with the Norman Rockwell Picture of the Umpires looking at the sky!). JOEL EVANS's song, Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight, cowritten with Larry Batiste and Dennis Wadlington, was included in the NBC Movie Special ``First to Die" which aired on February 23rd. Also his song Just For Fun, written with Ken McKenzie, was heard in the hit NBC show, ``Ed", on January 8th. Both placements by Marc Ferrari of MasterSource. JOHN LESTER's new song ``Out of the Clear Blue Sky" has been released on the compilation CD ``Peace Not War". The disc is a collection of pro-peace songs by various international artists including Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Massive Attack, Public Enemy, and Ms Dynamite (among many others). All proceeds go towards local, national, and international pro-peace organizations and helps to fund worldwide peace rallies such as the events on February 15th of this year. The US release is set for spring 2003. Check Peace-Not-War.org or JohnLesterMusic.com for more info. MARCUS BARONE has booked NCSA songwriters and performers KAMILLE and KELLY RUDISILL to sing for a Warner Brothers Television test pilot. The successful recording was done in Los Angeles. After auditioning a number of young women, the WB producer felt both Kamille and Kelly were perfect. Congratulations !!! L.K. POTTS' song, The Ballad of Poker Alice, is a finalist/winner for the Artists for Literacy/Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL) Chapter Two album, scheduled for nationwide release March 12. His song will be included on the album with Tom Waits, Steve Earle,David Bowie, Roseanne Cash, Vicky Randle, and others. Potts wrote the song after reading Steven Ambrose's historical account of building the early Transcontinental Railroad, Nothing Like It in the World. CHRIS DONOHOE and NYREE BELLEVILLE just found out that their song ``When I'm With You" is a finalist in the Country category of the 2002 John Lennon Songwriting Contest! DreamWorks picked CANDY CAMERON'S option for another year. In this past year she had songs recorded by Kenny Rogers (w/Alison Krauss); Jamie O'Neal; Susan Ashton, and an upcoming band on Curb Records called Mustang Sally. NCSA writers GINGER PITTMAN-PISTILLI & BOB WESTBROOK (also known as 1 iota) placed ``No Movie Star" in an internal marketing campaign for Visa. Produced by NCSA member Roberta Donnay." They also signed a publishing deal with Jannsongs Inc after connecting with Peter Jansson at this year's Creation:Craft:Connection. This is exciting news, as Peter's company has been an incredible force in the industry. The AFRTS network, through ABC Radio and TV will broadcast by satellite to over 200 countries worldwide the song ``AMERICA I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU" written by NCSA writer RUDY OBRADOVIC. The tracks were arranged and produced by MARCUS BARONE and sung by TIM HOCKENBERRY. Marcus' FILM MUSIC GROUP in Los Angeles negotiated the deal with the US armed Forces Radio and Television Network. JOEL EVANS recently had two songs licensed into ``Felicity" now airing in syndication on the WB network. Michael Eames at Pen Music of Hollywood inked the deal for ``So Near", cowritten with J.Elle and ``Jumpin' at the Juke Joint", cowritten with Ken McKenzie. NINA PUNO signed a single song deal w/ Curb Magnatone for ``Right By Me". NYREE's song ``Never Say Goodbye" has been licensed for the feature film, ``The Vengeance of Cinderella"! She was also a local finalist in the Froggy 92.9 Colgate Country Showdown and her song ``Wherever You Are I Want to Be There" received honorable mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. ANTONIA VENEZIA sang at The San Jose Jazz Festival in August with the Musicians Warehouse Big Band. The concert was recorded by NPR Radio and it may air in the near future. That morning, Antonia was interviewed live on KSJS Radio, and her original compositions were played on air. (Two were co-written by John Lee Sanders, one was co-written by Richard Venezia, her father, and the other was co-written by Besty Walter).ANTONIA VENEZIA is in the film, ``ASH WEDNESDAY"- that made it to The Sonoma Film Festival in March. It was shown on the Big Screen. She plays a mistress and also her face is on all of the publicity for the film. Antonia just did another concert with Legend drummer-composer, Louie Bellson and The Musician's Warehouse Big Band in April 2002. The band was also auctioned off on KTEH T.V. for a performance that will be in October 2002. PHIL BEARCE & TIM RYAN (Pale Moon Sky) had a song aired on ``Glory Days" on the WB Networkand. It aired on March 25th. http://www.palemoonsky.com MICHAEL MCNEVIN has been invited to play at the Baseball Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. The concert will take place on October 19th in the Hall Of Fame Theater, prior to the grand finale showing of Game One of the World Series. While there, his song ``The Pride Of Niles-Centerville Little League" will be added to the Hall Of Fame Baseball song collection. Also, his Little League Etch A Sketch drawing (which he drew last fall while in Cooperstown) will be hung in the Hall Of Fame art gallery next to the Norman Rockwell drawing of the Umpires looking at the sky as it begins to rain!! (You can see the drawing at www.michaelmcnevin.com) DAVE CRIMMEN - Bill Haley's Original Comets recorded one of Dave Crimmen's songs on their new Album/CD. His current Album/CD ``Big Daddy D" also features the Jordanares on backing vocals on two of the tracks. These are the same guys that sang back-up to Patsy Cline, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley. ``Big Daddy D" is Dave's (3rd) album/CD in a row to go Top-10 at CMJ (College Music Journal Magazine) It is available through Dave's web site and through HEPCAT distribution. KARMINA performed at the 2002 EAT'M Conference Showcase (Emerging Artists & Technology in Music). Sisters Kelly and Kamille, ages 17 and 16, playing keyboards and guitar, make up KARMINA. The artists formerly known as ``Kelly & Kamille" are described by EAT'M Founder, Lisa Tenner, as ``the best there can be in this industry." They were featured on the Disney series ``2 Hour Tour" (opened at The Fillmore for Savage Garden) and were winners on national TV ``Star Search" competitions Destination Stardom and Ed McMahon's Next Big Star. Alexandra Monir has been selected as one of the headliners at a prestigious industry event to be held on June 6th at L.A.'s world famous House of Blues. The event is the 10th annual Benefit Concert for the American Society of Young Musicians, and it also features and honors such well-known artists as Mandy Moore and Linkin Park. Sixteen year old Alexandra will be featured as America's rising teen artist. Alexandra has recently signed with Dan Cleary Management in Los Angeles. Mr. Cleary is responsible for discovering and developing the careers of such legendary artists as The Carpenters, Olivia Newton-John and Natalie Cole, among others. Alexandra has also signed on with the Grubman Entertainment Law Firm in New York, which handles such music lumininaries as Britney Spears, N'Sync and Alicia Keyes. She's also scheduled to perform at a televised concert from Disneyworld sometime in July. Lastly, Alexandra is preparing her package to be shopped to the major labels. She's writing and co-writing most of her material, but is also working with NCSA member Len Bakker, whom she teamed up with as a result of last September's Conference. We congratulate and wish them both the best. Joel Evans and J.Elle's song, ``Moody" is in the CBS-Hallmark miniseries, ``Living With The Dead", starring Ted Danson. The episode aired April 28th. Placement by MasterSource. Marcus Barone is conducting the orhestra in the studio for the new Lifehouse record on ``Wish" and ``Synacle". He also worked on the string arrangements. Sylvia White received a Certificate for Honorable Mention in Billboard's 10th Song Contest for her Country/Folk composition The Pillow You Slept On. ``Only the highest quality of songs make it to the top. This honor demonstates the talent and dedication it takes to write a `hit song'". Signed by Jim Halsey, President, an David Kindred, Director. Sony Pictures has licensed Nyree's new song Let Love Be Your Lullaby for ``Rachel's Room"! (Licensed through PEN Music.) Also, Vialta Inc. has licensed four of Nyree's songs from her ``bare" CD for use in their ViDVD Magazine Programs. Michael McNevin was hired to write and produce a six song EP for The Learning Company (owned by Mattel at the time). It is a Music CD that accompanied the Oregon Trail Learning Software, distributed nationally during the 2000 and 2001 Holliday season. The CD is called ``Songs Of The Oregon Trail" and is basically a folk record of original songs relating to that time of history. The CD (minus the software) is now available at Michael's website: www.michaelmcnevin.com Michael has also been hired to write and perform songs for Adobe Systems (the people who make Adobe Photo Shop). He will be writing and performing two concerts for their inventors in San Jose and Seattle - the songs and shows will revolve around inventors and patents. ``Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight", cowritten by Joel Evans, Larry Batiste and Dennis Wadlington was in the January 15th episode of the new NBC comedy, ``Scrubs". Joel's piano piece, ``Dreamtime" was heard in CBS's, ``That's Life" on December 21st. ``When Love Is Over", cowritten by Joel and J.Elle, was in ``The X Files" on November 11th. All placements by MasterSource. Nyree's song ``Wondering" from her `bare' CD has been used in theupcoming film ``Hungry Hearts"! (Licensed through PEN Music Group.) ``Can't Get Enuff" by D'VINITI, produced by Ian Crombie and Rainer Gembalczyk was used in a recent ``ER" program (placement by MasterSource). Nyree's song ``Colors" was licensed for use on the December 19th episode of the TV show ``Felicity" on the WB Network! (Placement by PEN Music Group.) ``Moody", by Joel Evans and J.Elle is in the movie, ``Sugar Town" which stars Rosanna Arquette and is currently airing on HBO. Joel's song, ``Mezzanine Dream" is in an episode of ``Curb Your Enthusiasm", also on HBO. Larry David (formerly of Seinfeld) stars and produces the show. ``Lounge Lizard", one of Joel's solo piano pieces, was heard on September 4th in the (short-lived) WB show, ``Dead Last". All placements by MasterSource. Nyree's song ``Wondering" has just been licensed for the TV drama ``Mysterious Ways". (Placement by PEN Music.) Mary Lonergan was chosen as a finalist in the Goodnight Kiss Music Scary Song Competition that was held on Saturday, October 13th....She didn't win, but had a great time at the party in Hollywood! Jacqueline Levy's comedy song ``Dear Employee", about the current deluge of corporate layoffs, was played October 4, 2001 on Marketplace, a nationally syndicated business news program on National Public Radio. Check it out at www.jacquelinelevy.com. Nyree's song ``Knives & Guns" will be used on NBC's ``Mysterious Ways" August 10th at 8pm. (Placed by PEN Music.) Recently Nyree has toured Brazil, Chicago, Boston and Seattle and as put up a tour diary at www.nyree.com/braziltourdiary.html. Joel Evans' song ``Mezzanine Dream" is in the new MGM movie, ``Ghost World" <http://www.mgm.com/ghostworld> ghostflash . It opened in LA July 20th and went into wider release August 3rd. The film stars Thora Birch (American Beauty), Scarlett Johansson (Horse Whisperer) and Steve Buscemi (Fargo). Written by Daniel Clowes and Director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb) it is based on Clowes' comic book of the same name. Placement by MasterSource. STEVE SESKIN's song, Grown Men Don't Cry- Tim McGraw hit the #1 slot on the Billboard Charts. Steve performed the song during last year's Conference at the Sunset Concert. This is the first major cut under his new publishing company, Larga Vista, which he co-owns. MARCUS BARONE was honored with gold and platinum records for his work on the LIFEHOUSE (Dreamworks) record No Name Face. Marcus did a number of keyboard overdubs. The main song he worked on was Trying. He also worked on the current hit Hanging By A Moment which is #6 in the current pop charts. JOHN HALEY-WALKER - was selected as a New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville Music Festival. JOEL EVANS - Solo piano piece ``As If It Were Yesterday" was licensed for "Blonde" on CBS. <http://www.cbs.com/primetime/movies_specials/mov_blonde.shtml>Blonde ``Magic In The Moonlight" (cowritten with Bill Ruha) heard on ``Nash Bridges" April 20th, ``The Roundabout Way" used in ``Once and Again" April 18th, ``Vanishing Romance" aired on Lifetime's ``Any Day Now" March 11th. The Fox Movie ``Say It Isn't So" utilizes my song, ``Until We Meet Again". It opened March 23rd (and closed promptly thereafter). Headed for a cut-out bin near you! ANTOINETTE OLESEN -picked up the second place prize in the John Lennon International Song contest with her song ``Hang Up Your Halo Tonight." CHERYL ASHTON's song"Listen To My Touch" was a finalist in the NSAI song contest. Joel Evans' song, ``Until We Meet Again" is in the new Fox Movie, ``Say It Isn't So" starring Chris Klein and Heather Graham. In theaters March 23rd. Placement by Marc Ferarri (MasterSource) for whom Joel recently produced four new original songs. SYNOPSIS: The notorious Farrelly brothers produced this film about a young man (Chris Klein) who meets the girl (Heather Graham) of his dreams, but is floored to find out that she might be his sister! The February 10th episode of ``The District" on CBS utilized ``We Called It Love", co-written by Joel and Sandy Sherman, Published by Martune Music of Pasadena. Erika Luckett - Showcased for Taylor Guitars at the recent North American Folk Alliance and was asked to also perform at their showcase in Nashville at both the NAMM show and the Chet Atkins festival. She also was featured in the March/April edition of Rockrgrl magazine in an article about independent musicians. And lastly....she got a wonderful review in LA's Music Connection Magazine. Here's the link if you want to read it: Dave Crimmen - Bill Haley's Original Comets are presently recording a new CD on Rolling Rock and will record ``Ain't Dead Yet" which Dave wrote. Another Rockabilly Hall Of Fame inductee, Garlin Hackney of Hack and the 57's, has finished a new CD in Nashville and has recorded a song Dave wrote for him called ``Somewhere In My Mind". Hack said he wanted to have a real `Bakersfield' type of sound for this album. So Dave sat down with his favorite Buck, Merle and Dwight records for about a week to get in the mood. Tony Lasley - A song picked up at a pitch about 3 years ago through NCSA is in the new HeartBreaker movie...Funny movie. (MasterSource) Rick Glaze - ``My Dot Com" from Rick Glaze's debut CD, Silicon Cowboy, was played on National Public Radio (NPR) on the business show Market Place on March 19, 2001. Transcript and replay is at www.marketplace.org. CNET radio 910 AM aired an interview with Rick in which he played ``My Dot Com" live on March 2nd. Investment website www.investars.com is giving the CD as a gift to new subscribers. In his column titled ``Unsigned Artists Who Deserve Grammy Recognition", Billboard magazine Talent Editor Larry Flick gave Mark Weigle's song "A Good Day" Record of the Year. Flick also chose Mark's CD ``All That Matters" among his Top 10 CDs of 2000 in Billboard's Critic's Choice issue at #6. Mark was the only indie artist on Flick's list. NCSA members win the Lilith Fair Songwriting Contest NCSA transplants, Diona Devincenzi and Carol Hashe, won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Lilith Fair Songwriting Contest. Carol and Diona both moved to Nashville to pursue their songwriting careers. Both were very active members of NCSA, taking classes, networking and collaborating. It's wonderful to see their commitment to the craft of songwriting validated in this way. Mary Chapin Carpenter, who was part of the very first Lilith Fair lineup in 1997, announced the winners of The ASCAP Foundation Lilith Fair Songwriting Contest at the ASCAP Country Music Awards Dinner in Nashville. The response to this first-ever songwriting contest for women, with over 2,000 entries, was wonderful. The entries, from all parts of the country and in all musical styles, went through a multitiered judging procedure including on-line judging by the public. This process culminated in the blue-ribbon panel of top women songwriters and music industry executives making the selection of the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-Up. The contest prizes are being funded by a group of the country's most prominent women songwriters. The ASCAP Foundation Lilith Fair Songwriting Contest, cosponsored by The ASCAP Foundation and Lilith Fair, is a national competition designed to encourage women songwriters. Entries were limited to original songs by women songwriters not signed to a record or publishing company at the time of entry or at the time of award announcement. The songs were judged on originality of composition and lyrics. Mark Gilbert signed ``Kickin' In" and ``Jumpin' The Gun" to David Powell's Music Bridge for the new movie Extreme Honor. His song was picked up at last month's screening! Candy Cameron was offered and took a staff writing deal with Dreamworks in Nashville and has relocated there, along with her family - Best of luck Candy! Joel Evans - Joel's "Until We Meet Again" is in What Women Want, from Paramount, starring Mel Gibson includes , "As If It Were Yesterday" is in the current Warner Bros. Movie, Miss Congeniality, starring Sandra Bullock. It also aired throughout Halloween week in the Disney channel movie, My Mom Has A Date With A Vampire. Placement by MasterSource. Also his song, ``Vanishing Romance" aired twice on Nov. 22nd. In the afternoon on CBS Young & Restless and again in the evening in the Showtime Original Movie, Seventeen Again. The Movie continues to air periodically. Placed by Heavy Hitters Music. Betsy Walter and Antonia Venezia's song, ``Intoxicated By Her Song", appears throughout the film, Friggin' Mafia Movie, by independent filmmaker, Shawn Flanagan. Mark Weigle - snagged ``Artist of the Month" on the USA Songwriting Competition website. ``All That Matters" was just featured on the Audiofile segment of This Way Out, a syndicated BLTG radio show. His "I Confess" won honorable mention last year in what's billed as "the worlds largest songwriting competition." Jacqueline Levy's comedy song "Let's Share", a commentary on music "sharing" websites, was played October 2, 2000 on Marketplace Radio, a nationally syndicated public radio business news program heard locally on KQED-FM 88.5.. Penny Framstad"Even Angels Fall" was selected as the promotional song for this fall's premiere TV prime time drama, Once and Again on ABC. It aired for 30 seconds during October 1-1 John Lester played a live radio broadcast with Gretchen Peters on September 25th for the Nashville radio station ``The Phoenix". He played bass with her band as well as having a featured performance of his 1999 Song of the Year "Ways of a Woman". Candy Cameron has signed her song ``I Hold My Mother's Hand" to Dreamworks/SKG Music in Nashville. The song has been on hold for Tim McGraw, JoDee Messina, and most recently Garth Brooks. Elena Powell and the Glitter Folk have been selected to play at the Rockrgrl showcase at the conference in Seattle, November 24. She anticipates having a great time and meeting lots of independent women up there. More info at elenapowell.com. Lynn Smith received the Special Judge's Award at Sierra Songwriters' Festival 2000 songwriting competition, July 29th in Sonora, CA. Joel Evans has new songs on Film & TV: You're The One For Me and Until We Meet Again are in Maryam which premiered April 14th at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Until We Meet Again was also used in Sundance Festival entry Drop Back Ten starring supermodel Amber Valletta. These same songs were heard on the ABC TV soap Port Charles on April 26th. His song Mezzanine Dream was in the January 16th X Files episode. All Placements by MasterSource. He has signed 5 new songs to Barbara Jordan's Heavy Hitters Music. She recently got a placement of his song Vanishing Romance in the upcoming Showtime Movie Sixteen Candles. Air date TBA. Lynn Smith -was a finalist in the Sierra Songwriters Festival, July 29th & 30th at the Motherload Fairgrounds in Sonora, CA. For more info: www.sierrasongwriters.com. She is playing two writer's nights at the broken spoke in Nashville on August 2nd and 10th. Art Sirota - Art's songs were playing every day on Manx radio at the Isle of Man TT motorcycle races. Songs from Art's Norton Songs were played for the two weeks of the races. Ian Crombie - had his co-written song Temptation on Access Hollywood on May 24th and June 19th. Also Road To My Heart was used in ``Touched By An Angel". Songs placed by MasterSource. Penny Framstad's co-write, Even Angels Fall, recorded by Jessica Riddle on Hollywood Records, was in the ``Top 20" in Hot Adult Contemporary radio on the Gavin charts!!! Penny is at the beginning stages of negotiating a major publishing deal. She'll be in the pipeline now to write and co-write for many of the top music acts in the music industry !!! Also, her song, The Best Day Of Your Life (her version) is in an independent film titled An Intimate Friendship. It's being premiered in a 10 city tour and won one of the highest awards to a sold out premiere in Phoenix, AZ recently. Melissa Ethridge's music also appears in the film. Her song is aired for over 2 minutes in the opening scene of the film. If the film continues to do well there is a very good chance that it will be picked up by a major with a possible Soundtrack. Look for it at theaters near you!! FollowingNCSA's 1999 Conference, John Van Nest signed Reed Fromer and Andy Padlo's Let My Heart Go Out Alone and Fromer's Miss Mississippi to publishing deals. Fromer and Padlo also signed Hit The Ground with Lynn Jacobs Johnston, and Steve Bloch is shopping their Too Good To Be Untrue. NYREE has been chosen as one of the 20 finalists in the Oxygen.com nation-wide female artist and girl band search! The winner will be announced in July. People can go to http://www.oxygen.com/roxygen to check out my winning song. She also signed an agreement with SpinRecords.com to feature her and her song ``Little Girl" on their site. To check it out you can look under the ``pop" genre at www.SpinRecords.com. And LicenseMusic.com has also picked her solo album up to license several of her songs to TV, movies, etc. Christene LeDoux was chosen to perform in the Tucson Folk Festival in May. She also received honorable mention in the Songwriting contest! Christene and band mates, Joe Rubio (guitar/keyboards) and Steve May (violin/mandolin) will be flying out the weekend of May 5th! Candy Cameron signed her song Love You Anymore with Norman DeVasure at Sunset Ranch Music in Nashville. Vernon Boes and Candy Cameron signed When Love Comes Knockin' with Norman DeVasure at Sunset Rance Music, Nashville. Joel Evans and J.Elle's song So Near will air on April 7th on the show ``Good vs Evil" on the Sci-fi channel. Placement by Pen Music Group. Joel has also signed two new songs with MasterSource; Two at a Time, also co-written with J.Elle; and Yesterday's News, co-written with Sandy Sherman. Susan Z - Just got a small part in an upcoming movie called Sweet November, starring Keanu Reeves. It shoots in April, She's playing a waitress in a scene with Keanu. She has been nominated for a 1999 Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for her performance as MARIA in West Side Story! The awards show is open to the public and will be held Monday, April 10, at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, San Francisco. Brian Cline Band hits the radio charts with Hold the Keys!!! The song was released to radio March 20 and 27 commercial stations all over the country have begun playing the song, 10 of which included it in strong rotation. This put us on the FMQB and New Music Weekly radio charts for the AC format. They hit #3 nationwide on the New Music Weekly chart for Most Added single. Antoinette Olesen received runner up awards (top five songs) in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, in the Rock category for two of her songs Write The Story and Close My Eyes. The 1999 contest received over fifteen thousand entries and the results were announced in January. Alicia King has recently signed three songs to publishers.MasterSource signed Happily Ever After. They also used another of Alicia's songs in UPNís 7 Days and Guiding Light on CBS.. John Van Nestís Resonate took This Crowd!, after first hearing it at Conference.. Norman DeVasure, of Nashville's RPM Music, signed I Think I'm Gonna. Steve August's album Happiness the Hero was selected by a jury panel of music writers, producers and DJs as a finalist in the 2000 Crossroads Music Awards Acoustic Revolution Category. Steve August had recordings of two of his songs, Better Than Words and The Worst Way signed by Pen Music Group, based in Hollywood. Jacqueline Levy's comedy song Half a Million Dollar Shack, about the high cost of housing in the Bay area, was played February 8, 2000 on Marketplace Radio, a nationally syndicated public radio business news program. Deanne Kendall - got a song published last November - Richard Millward and Deanne co-wrote The Great House which was published by HMG/Christian Country Music Association in Nashville. Steve Kritzer was the grand prize winner in the Portland Songwriter Association song contest out of 400 international entries, with his song ``If We Never Know", co written with Lena Lucas. Pete Stringfellow has had his songs used in the following TV shows and movies- Trinity - NBC Primetime Sitcom, Becker - CBS Primetime Sitcom, Any Day Now - Lifetime Primetime Sitcom, Anywhere But Here - 20th Century Fox Major Motion Picture Release, Monster! - UPN Movie, Blowback - B movie, In A Class Of His Own - Major Motion picture, Next Friday - Major Motion Picture (in theaters now!), Judging Amy - CBS Primetime Sitcom Joel Evans has had several recent placements of his songs on TV. Name of the Game aired on the Dec. 30 episode of Passions, CBS; Just Another Kiss on Malcolm in the Middle, UPN, Jan. 16; and As if it Were Yesterday on the Feb. 12 episode of Now & Again, CBS. Tell Me (Confess), co-written with Bill Ruha aired on the Feb. 15 episode of Young & Restless, CBS. Songs were placed by MasterSource and Heavy Hitters Music. He has also signed six new songs to Penn Music Group in Hollywood and a Christmas song co-written with Lisa Aschmann to Christmas & Holiday Music in Burbank. Cheryl Ashton - Lynn Jacobs-Johnston signed her song Does God Jump on the Clouds (to Make it Rain?). Performing Songwriter mag is doing a feature on BEN GRAVES in their May issue, and featuring one of his songs, Princess Grace, on `99 sampler CD. NYREE reached the top 20 pop charts of mp3.com with her new song Never Say Goodbye. JACK FISCHER & ROSIE SIMMS won Janet Fisher's contest on her website with a story song A Little Time To Heal. PETER LAMSON premiered on January 15 & 16 at the South Florida Folk Festival in Fort Lauderdale as the only artist in a unique new promotion program for Epiphone Guitars. He was also featured in two in-store appearances at Mars Music Planet music stores (Ft.Lauderdale and Miami) and at the two top Blues clubs in the area, Tobacco Road and Satchmoís. Making Deals With God by PENNY FRAMSTAD will air on Providence, Friday, Feb 4 on NBC @ 8pm Joel Evans had two recent television uses of his material (placed by Mastersource) Moody, co-written with J.Elle was heard October 3rd in the NBC TV Movie Road Rage starring Yasmin Bleeth.Just Another Kiss, written by Joel aired on the October 5th episode of UPN's Shasta McNasty. Also Joel has signed two more new songs to Heavy Hitters Music Publishing Vanishing Romance, written by Joel and Tell Me (Confess) co-written with Bill Ruha. Heavy Hitters is the publishing company of Barbara Jordan - Publisher and Music Supervisor with innumerable Film and TV credits. Mikhail's tv show THE WINDSINGER will be priemering on WCTV ch.6 Oct 10, 18, 25 and Dec 2 at 8:30 pm. The network television show "Nash Bridges" used Deonne Kahler's song Thousand Years. which was also featured twice on the NBC soap opera "Another World`` back in October. New Eyes by Candy Cameron was signed by Sunset Ranch Music in Nashville after being picked up at a songscreening. Joel Evans signed two songs to Heavy Hitters Music Publishing: Love is the Name of the Game, and Magic in the Moonlight which he co-wrote with Bill Ruha. Lani Silver signed a publishing contract with Nashville based Giovellino Music for Chemistry, which she co-wrote with former member Arlene Mordeno. Kenon Chen had two songs (No Tomorrow and No Stone Unturned) picked up by debut recording artist, Sheri Kadeche. The album will be released on Grand Match records and distributed by Universal. He will also be playing guitar on the project. He also secured a contract to co-write the soundtrack score for an upcoming film about Nelson Mandela starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Angela Basset. He will be co-writing with Andre Crouch and joined on the soundtrack by artists such as Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, and many others. Ann Munday is now representing him as acting manager. Susan Z finished her stint as ``Maria" in WEST SIDE STORY, this year's "Mountain Play" in Marin County. Check out some of the reviews: SF Chronicle/Steven Winn, ``Susan Zelinsky makes a spunky Maria, and her voice blooms warmly.î Marin Independent Journal/Roberta Floden, ``Susan Zelinsky is absolutely persuasive as the Puerto Rican Maria." Pacific Sun/Lee Brady ``Zelinsky's ëI Feel Pretty (is) captivating." Novato Advance/Jason Walsh ``The leads, Andrew Truett and Susan Zelinsky have excellent voices." CONGRATULATIONS SUSAN Z!!! Jacqueline Levy's comedy song ``Worth Every Penny", about the cost of raising children, was aired May 7 on Marketplace Radio, a nationally syndicated public radio program. Old Set Of Keys by Steve Keating was signed by Sunset Ranch Music, (Norman DeVasure) Nashville after screening at NCSA Chonda Pierce - speaker, writer, comedian and Gospel artist on Myrrh Records (a division of Word label), has just finished recording Whenever I Think Of You, written by Nina Puno, to be released on her new album due out in September 1999. She is also currently shooting a video using Whenever I Think Of You as the opening track. The song is signed with publisher Sherrill Blackman in Nashville. Greg Biles has been notified that he is a finalist in the Telluride Troubadour Contest. Alicia King's song ``You're the One", written and performed by Alicia has been used in the new movie White River Kid starring AntonioBanderas, Ellen Barkin, Randy Travis, and Beau Bridges. Song placed by MasterSource. Among the 32 finalists in this year's Kerrville Folk Festival are NCSA members Fred McCarty, Nancy Terzian (of the Westerleys), Justin Wells, and Jay Howlett. Way to go! THE WESTERLEYS are signing a record deal with PRIME CD, a New York-based record label whose focus is giving national exposure to quality music, regardless of genre. They also have a new booking agent! McSHANE GLOVER of NOTEWORTHY PRODUCTIONS now handles all the booking for the band nationally and locally. Her contact info is: 124 1/2 Archwood Ave, Annapolis, MD, 21401. PH: (410) 268-8232, E-MAIL:mcshane@songs.com Glenn MacPherson had his song Full Moon used in the recent NBC Movie of the Week, Hunt For The Joel Evans had his song As If It Were Yesterday used in the Season Finale of Providence (NBC). Also, Moody a song co-written with Jael was used in an episode of Turks (CBS). Songs were placed by MasterSource. Mark Weigle was nominated for 2 Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMAs), and performed at the show in NYC along with Ani DiFranco, Sandra Bernhard, Melissa Ferrick, and others. Billboard magazine's piece about the GLAMAs featured a picture and quote from Mark. Mark's CD "The Truth Is" is reviewed in the April/May Performing Songwriter Magazine. |
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