Only One Week Left Until the Spring Durango Songwriters Expo in Ventura, CA – Feb. 16-18, The next Expo takes place Feb 16-18 2017 in fabulous Ventura, CA!!
Book your hotel room now! Stay where the cool kids stay (and where the 24 hour action is!) The awesome Crowne Plaza right at the pier in Ventura Beach!
Here’s the direct link for booking:
https://aws.passkey.com/event/16342211/owner/55464/landing
If you have questions about our event, call Jim Attebery at 970-259-9747!
http://www.durango-songwriters-expo.com
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Just one week away now, the Durango Songwriters Expo team is getting ready to see some old friends, make some new friends, and once again hear some GREAT MUSIC!
To kick of the event, we always have a Wednesday Night get together to get us revved up! Join us next Wednesday, February 15th – 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. at the Bombay Bar and Grill right down the street (walking distance) from the Crowne Plaza. Come on down! Excellent food and bar prices!
OPEN MIC! If you want to perform a song, come early and get on the list because we always have a ton of songwriters for this event. Not to be missed! See you there!
If rooms are sold out at the Crowne Plaza, hotel rooms might be available at the Country Inn and Suites which is just a few blocks away. Nice hotel and reasonably priced.
Are You Registered Yet? Only ONE WEEK away!
CLICK HERE to see the 2017 Brochure and Registration Form.
http://durangosong.com/VenturaExpo16Inside.pdfhttp://durangosong.com/VenturaExpo16Inside.pdf
Go here for all the details! http://www.durango-songwriters-expo.com/
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Deadline Fast Approaching for the Wildflower Festival!
Hello Songwriters,
The deadline for our Performing Songwriter Contest is one month away – March 1. Have you submitted your entries yet? For more information, go to http://wildflowerfestival.com/ to learn how you can win $500! Thank you!
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Songwriters Share Inspiration Behind Some of the Hottest Pop Songs
The people who write the songs that power the music industry carve their own unique road to the Grammys.
From Nashville to Los Angeles, songwriters are the less-publicized counterparts to the high-profile recording artists who soak up the spotlight on Grammy night. You may not know their names, but their work gets stuck in your head like an unforgettable memory. And by their own admission, it’s an odd way to make a living – equal parts poet, mathematician and therapist, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
Kara DioGuardi, Justin Tranter and Ross Golan are responsible for some of the most memorable pop music in the past decade, from P!nk’s “Sober” to Flo Rida’s “My House” and Justin Beiber’s “Sorry.”
That Bieber hit dropped after his much-publicized breakup with fellow pop star Selena Gomez.
“You’ve written with Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez. Do you sometimes feel like you’re a relationship counselor at those times?” Dahler asked Tranter. “You’re writing and you’re almost writing to each of them?”
“Being aware of the fact of what pop culture was viewing him as in that moment, I knew an apology would be good,” Tranter said.
“So there was no awkward moment there with… working on both?” Dahler asked.
“No, not at all,” Tranter said.
“Because you don’t want to get caught in these people’s lives,” DioGuardi jumped in.
“Because they’re real lives! “ Tranter added.
“Right. And they tell you things, and of course, those are secret things you would never say to anybody,” DioGuardi said.
“The studio is really kind of a confessional,” Golan said.
“It is,” DioGuardi agreed.
It’s not always someone else’s secrets being exposed, but the writer’s own demons instead. When DioGuardi co-wrote “Sober” with P!nk, she was inspired by her own teenage battle with an eating disorder.
“Was that scary for you, to expose your own experiences and pain that way?” Dahler asked.
“Songwriting is the best therapy that I never paid for,” DioGuardi said. “We trade in a commodity of truth. And we have to be really honest with ourselves in order to put that out and have it affect somebody else. When I stopped writing so much and I go to concerts and I look around, and these kids would be singing words that I have written and you realize there’s a spiritual element to what you do.”
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