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3) Calendar of Events/Featured Event

4) Forums & Community

5) Chapter News

6) Chapter News

7) PRO Member Spotlight

8) Get Involved

9) Featured Partner

10) Sponsored Event

11) Sponsored Event

12) Back Page

Hi, everyone! Hope the school year is off to a great start for you! We are almost to the last quarter of the year. Unbelievable! There are some great opportunities for Songsalive! PRO Members listed on our Songshop and Opportunities forums. Read more about them in this issue of Songnotes on page 4. We have a couple Songsalive! Sponsored Events coming up in October: the Independent Music Conference (IMC) and the Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference. Find more information about them on pages 10 & 11. Congratulations to Shane Carther for being chosen to be our Songsalive! PRO Member Spotlight! You can read more about this 15-year old songwriter on page 7. Our Partner of the Month is jamLink from MusicianLink. Find out about their amazing Internet music rehearsal & collaborative songwriting tool on page 9. Please check out all of our chapter events on page 3, as well as our chapters’ news on pages 5 & 6. On the cover this month is a our Long Island Songsalive! chapter coordinator, Steve Archdeacon.

Have a Great Autumn! Mary Lemanski Director of Operations

FEATURED UPCOMING

SONGSALIVE! EVENT

SONGSALIVE! ORANGE COUNTY SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE

WHEN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

TIME: 7:30 PM

WHERE: SAM ASH MUSIC STORE

14200 Beach Blvd.

Westminster, CA 92683

www.myspace.com/37samash

COST: FREE and open to the public.

Join us for an hour of free music, free coffee, and free snacks!

ARTISTS PERFORMING:

The Original Sideshow Band

Sherif Guirguis

www.songsalive.org/events.htm for Calendar and Upcoming Events

www.songsalive.org/chapters.htm for details on our Chapters.

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CALENDAR OF

EVENTS

Sunday, September 15

12:00pm Los Angeles Songsalive! Songwriters Workshop

Tuesday, September 17

8:30pm New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Thursday, September 19

7:30pm Orange County Songsalive! Showcase

Tuesday, September 24

8:30pm New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Sunday, September 29

7:00pm Orange County Songsalive! Songwriters Workshop

Tuesday, October 1

8:30pm New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Tuesday, October 8

8:30pm New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Saturday, October 12

11:30am Chicago Songsalive! Songwriters Workshop

Tuesday, October 15

8:30pm New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Thursday, October 17

7:30pm Orange County Songsalive! Showcase

Participate and find opportunities in our Forums as a Songsalive! Pro Member. SONGSHOP - Get song leads where music business professionals (record labels, publishers, film producers and music supervisors) hunt songs from the Songsalive! song pool. GIGS, JOBS & MUSIC OPPORTUNITIES - Listings of cool gigs, jobs and music opportunities posted by Songsalive! staff as well as members themselves.

LATEST POSTS: Songsalive! Songshop - get song leads and pitch your songs forum

Composers Needed Immediately for Children's Book - Deadline October 7th

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Opportunities Forum - Gigs, Jobs, and Music forum Fall Internship At NJ Label Hip-Hop Radio Show Seeks Artists & More And last week... International Music Awards Open To All Independent Acoustic Artist New Program Seeking Artists, Authors, & Actors Music Company Specializing in Dance & Pop Are Looking For Producers & Writers Music From All Genres Needed For TV/Film Placement Music From All Genres Wanted For Production Projects Bad Boy Entertainment Seeks A&R Interns In NY Country, Blues, Soul & More Sought For Radio Shows August & September Performance Dates Available at The Elbo Room in Chicago Art Director for Epitaph Records - Los Angeles, CA Detroit Radio Station Seeks Producer Warner Music Group Seeks Burbank, CA Interns

AND MANY MORE!!!

PRO MEMBERS ACCESS - GO TO: Log on to Songsalive.org and click on

BACKSTAGE / then FORUMS / then Songshop or Opportunities.

Visit our Songsalive! Forums for more information on these

opportunities: www.songsalive.org/forums/

Community SONGCHAT - Members, have your say. Speak out, shout out. Tell it like it is! Find collaborators, other members, talk about songwriting, the biz, and speak your mind! Including:

Songchat Songwriter Discussions Song Critique Discussion

Lyrics-Only Critique Discussion SONG CRITIQUE - Critique other members songs and add yours for critique.

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Songsalive! Orange County July Workshop - A good crowd of

talented musicians, singers, and songwriters at the Spires Restaurant

in Westminster, California, taking part in the monthly Songsalive!

Orange County songwriting workshop. No less than eight songs

presented for critique, which made for a lot of good music and intense

discussion. Sherif Guirguis started things off with a classic 12-bar blue

song — blasted by his powerful voice, of course. Gil Mosard followed

with a Kristofferson-style county-rock piece he wrote in the 1970’s.

Newcomer Liz Yacoubian brought back the blues with a classic-style

complaint (including some fine sax-playing) about the traffic in SoCal.

RD Girard presented a brand-spanking new song (finished that day!)

about family life and relations. Jeff Dahl had a rockin’ theatrical

number about people who’re in love — and people who are not. Kip

Corley had another brand new song about restless men who just can’t

settle down. Tom Sullivan presented one of his great, simple, straight-

forward honkey-tonk songs. And Lucius Austin finished things up with

a “modern urban doo-wop” song, to use his words. After the critiques

were done, everyone joined in a fun little exercise about thinking up

ideas for new songs. It worked like this: Look through a newspaper,

and find a headline with an interesting turn of phrase — there are

always plenty. Then, let that interesting phrase be the seed of a song

lyric. Now, we’ll see what people came up with when we meet next

month! -Rod O’Riley

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REVIEWS OF RECENT EVENTS

Songsalive! Los Angeles July Workshop – The Los Angeles

Songsalive! Workshop series continued Sunday, July 21st at

The Cahuenga General Store with guest speaker Alan Roy

Scott. Alan’s topic, “Craft Still Matters”, went beyond discussing

the basic elements of songwriting. He made every critique

personal to the songwriter, but brought a general thought/point

for everyone to understand.

-Rik Lawrence

Songsalive! Springfield July Workshop – The Springfield, IL

Chapter of Songsalive! hosted another songwriters’ workshop

on Saturday, July 27th at The Pharmacy. Songsalive! PRO

member, Julie Hulvey, shared a song she had just completed

and a new song that she just started. She received good

feedback and suggestions for how to improve her work-in-

progress. The topic of the second half was “Songwriting 101.”

Mary Lemanski reviewed some music theory terms as they

applied to songwriting. She discussed the components of what

makes a good hit song. She also talked about various

techniques to overcoming writers’ block. A fun & informative

workshop!

www.songsalive.org/chapters.htm

REVIEWS OF RECENT EVENTS Songsalive! Chicago August Workshop - Songsalive! Chicago hosted another fantastic workshop on August 10th at the Beat Kitchen. Four people brought songs for critique. Some of the songs were outstanding. Lots of good advice was given on how to make the other songs better. In the second half, we did a songwriting exercise called “Lyrical Pass the Mic…or Paper.” We picked a songwriting prompt, and each person had a minute to write a line for the chorus, and then later, a line for the verse. We went through the exercise three different times with various songwriting prompts. It was a lot of fun trying to come with something under a minute and listening to what others came up with! -Mary Lemanski Songsalive! Orange County August Showcase – Two talented veteran acts returned to the stage at Sam Ash Music in Westminster, California for the monthly Songsalive! Orange County Showcase. Michael Vanags brought along his family up on stage with him, backing him up during his heart-felt story-songs. Michael recently inked a record deal, and he’s been trying out various songs in his repertoire to see which ones bring enough audience appreciation to go on his EP. Next up were local power-houses The Fallen Stars, with a more acoustic (but no less energetic!) version of their rockin’ Americana. Turns out they just got back from a triumphant tour of Europe — their suitcase still announced their CD’s as “Available for 10 Euro”. After their high-energy set, the crowd left for the evening severely jazzed. -Rod O’Riley www.songsalive.org/chapters.htm

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Songsalive! Los Angeles August Workshop - The Los Angeles Songsalive! Workshop series continued Sunday, August 18 at The Cahuenga General Store with guest speaker attorney/artist Christiane Cargill Kinney. Chris’ topic of “The Music Industry Is Not Dying, It’s Changing – Rapidly”, was a comprehensive overview of how technology is impacting music and the challenges it presents to the artist/songwriter. Subjects touched on were social media, a website of your own, performance rights organizations, the importance of live performance (for the performer), pay to play and the licensing of material. -Rik Lawrence Songsalive! Orange County August Workshop - Our crowd of current regulars showed up once again for an evening of fine music and discussion at the Spires Restaurant in Westminster, California. Chapter coordinator Rod O’Riley got things going with his very first “heavy metal” lyric, the story of a lonely astronaut on the breaking point. The song grew out of last month’s assignment to write a song based on an interesting newspaper headline (other folk said they’re still working on theirs). Kip Corley came up next, presenting a country style boogie-woogie song with a sly sense of humor. Next up was Rick Willingham, giving us a second-time presentation of a slow but hard-rocking number. Everyone said the new arrangement sounded precisely like Neil Young — and everyone loved it! Gil Mosard gave us an absolutely beautiful man-and-woman dialogue song with a terrific melody. More sly humor, from Liz Yacoubian this time, again showing us the diversity of musical styles she works in. Sherif Guirguis (one of our Showcase artists for September) presented a bluesy, hard-driving spiritual song. And Lucius Austin presented a funky smooth-jazz-style love song with his textbook dense lyrics. After the song presentations, the group gathered together for an exercise about writing good lines in a verse. Since that involves creating pictures in the mind (of people, places, or things), the assignment this time was to write lines or phrases that invoke all of the five senses — not just like “a red table”, but metaphors like “… her hair was golden” or similes such as “… he was bitter like a chocolate bar”. Some of the things people came up with were poignant, some were downright hilarious — and some are definitely going to be worked into songs! -Rod O’Riley

PRO MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

We are all excited about Shane Carther being chosen for the Songsalive! Pro Member Spotlight!!!

You too could be featured by Songsalive! ... to 16,000+ subscribers on our mailing list, social networks and members. Join as a PRO MEMBER and find out more under Backstage.

SHANE CARTHER Interview excerpt "I want to share my music with as many people I can and hopefully have my music help them in anyway throughout their lives." Read the CD Review by Songsalive! and Interview with Songsalive! in the Songsalive! Pro Member Spotlight blog Also featured on our HOME PAGE and Members Page: www.songsalive.org/members.htm

“Singer/songwriter, Shane Carther's self-titled release

showcases the musical and lyrical skills of a 15-year

old boy, who is mature beyond his years. The album

begins a mellow, folk-rock tune with acoustic guitar,

glockenspiel, and vocals called, "In the Daylight." It is

about breaking free from this world of illusion.“

Shane Carther Album Review

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Congratulations Shane Carther on being featured as our Songsalive! Pro Member Spotlight Artist!

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FEATURED

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Songsalive! Featured Partner: jamLink from MusicianLink

Discount for Songsalive Members - 10 percent off your entire purchase! The jamLink lets you practice online with minimal latency up to 500 miles over the Internet, with studio quality, 48 KHz audio. Ever tried collaborating over Skype or Google Hangouts? The latency involved with these services makes rehearsing a big mess. Furthermore, the sound on these services has been optimized for speech, not for music. With the jamLink from MusicianLink and a high speed internet connection, you can practice with musicians over long distances. Standard 1/4 inch and 1/8 inch inputs let you connect a mic, guitar, mixer, or other instruments directly.

Songsalive! PRO Members: For more information on jamLink from MusicianLink, click on Partner Directory in Backstage.

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Go Pro today! Join Songsalive! on our website at

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Independent Music Conference (IMC)

October 19 - 23, 2013

Los Angeles, CA

Songsalive! members can save even more with a special discounted early-bird registration rate for the Independent Music Conference.

Visit the link to take advantage of this great offer, and pay only $55 per person! The Independent Music Conference is a highly effective

learning and networking environment which has been presented nationwide in Philly, Dallas, Charleston, Los Angeles and Northampton to

date. Now in its eleventh year, and planning the 14th event, the IMC is still the only music conference in the nation specifically for

independent musicians. The IMC focuses on empowering musicians to achieve indie success, helping them achieve their goals as

entrepreneurial business owners through the presentation of educational seminars, workshops, panel discussions, mentor sessions

networking opportunities, performance instruction, evaluation and critique, and live performances.

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SPONSORED

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For more information on this conference and other Songsalive! Sponsored Events, visit

www.songsalive.org/sponsoredevents.htm

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Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter

Film & TV Music Conference

Los Angeles, CA

October 29-30, 2013

The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard join forces to deliver a cutting-edge, two-day seminar on the role of music in film and television. Now in its 14th year, this Conference offers attendees the unique opportunity to learn from, network and expose their music directly to the best music supervisors, composers, directors, music editors, songwriters and producers in the business. The event also provides a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas - featuring roundtable discussions, and other networking cocktail parties and sessions.

For more information on these and other Songsalive! Sponsored Events, visit www.songsalive.org/sponsoredevents.htm

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