Congratulations to the Denver School of Rocks Fall 2015 House Band members! They are Allie Redhair, Cody Templeman and Tristan Welch (Guitar); Andrew Evans and Emilio Eslinger (Bass); Paradise Frank, Amelia Morris, McLeod Shea and Jamie Wandishin (Vocals); Flip Longley and Colin Fleisher (Drums) and Zach Wandishin (Keys). The SOR Denver House Band will be performing at public and private events throughout the Fall season, including those that benefit our Rock Scholarship Fund.
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ALL THE WINNERS OF COMBO’S 3rd ANNUAL SONGWRITING CONTEST
We want to congratulate the 19 winners who were chosen by a panel of 5 judges. Each song was rated on a scoring system of 1-5 with 1 being low and 5 being high. Judges were also told they could break the point value down by quarter percentages if they wanted to do so. In other words, if they felt the song rated better than a “4″ but was not quite *perfect*, they could give it a 4.5.
We put the top 19 songs overall on a CD and local replicator CODA, Inc., has made copies for us, as we promised, to pass out to the music pros at the Durango Songwriters Expo. Last year, CDs (along with the lyrics) were passed out to Windswept Pacific; The Song Factory; Writer’s Den Music Group; Garvan Media, Management and Marketing; West-Alan Publishing; Doug Garvey (CO State Fair Songwriters Night); Lyric House Publishing; and Jeff Silbar (writer of “Wind Beneath My Wings”). We also mailed copies to Ash Street Publishing, Vapor Music Group (Music Supervision and Licensing), Imagem Music, Razor & Tie (music placement), LBK Entertainment. and SQE Publishing.
We will also be hosting the songwriters at a special Songwriters Night at Herman’s Hideaway in November. The date is yet to be confirmed but we’ll let everyone know as soon as we know!
Our thoughts on this are so that our other members can meet the winners (“Put a face to the name”), and so that you can all meet each other! Perhaps a co-writing partnership will happen. We know of such a co-writing that happened before (and their song was a winner in the past!) Who knows? That’s what COMBO is all about – networking with the musicians and services who need each other to make a career happen.
Here’s the list of those songs that will be on the CD, not by rating but it just happened that way! However, FYI – The high scoring songs were Smokin’ and Here Come The Jones (tied for first).
Track | Title | Writer(s)
01. Kiss of Death: Rich Owen
02. Come Over: Joel Ashmore
03. Wishes or Weeds: Caitlin Powell
04. Bounce: Rachel Alena/Alec Sims/Kyle Comerford/Vince Carmellini
05. Gypsy Jewel: Jeffrey Dallet
06. Dissection: Sidney Powell
07. The Perfect Remedy: Richie Allen Buchborn
08. Jamaica No Problem: Davey Schoolcraft
09. My House is Not a Home: John Bunzli
10. So Well: Richie Allen Buchborn
11. Fourth of July: Steve Law
12. Smokin’: Nicole Unser/Tyler Jordan
13. Here Comes the Jones: Davey Schoolcraft
14. Blessings: Marni Green
15. Funk it Up: Harold Rapp, III
16. Silent Words: Amy Humphreys Kress
17. The One: Michael Aldridge
18. When You Turn Around: Robby Roberts
19. Sunlight in a Snowstorm: Laurie Dameron
We want to thank all of you who entered and hope that the judges’ comments help you with you future songwriting endeavors.
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