End Of Year Report 2008
By Gilli Moon
Co-Founder / President
Starting
in 1997, and 11 years on, and at least 9 years with an international
presence, Songsalive! has grown to be the largest international songwriters
organization worldwide, with songwriter and composer members reaching across
the U.S, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Papua New Guinea.We
have over 20 chapters worldwide with the main office in Los Angeles,
and over 35 volunteers on the team.
Songsalive! has
always been promoted in the U.S.A, Canada and Europe as an Australian
organization, an Australian concept and we are constantly promoting our
services to Australians who tour overseas (“door stop to the world”), plus
encourage Australians to write with U.S, Canadian and European writers. We now have become an International organization with it's own Company in the US, providing direct support for US/Canadian and World songwriters.
LATEST INTERNATIONAL
NEWS:
- We have just started a chapter in Denmark – our new
Scandinavian Chapter – under the keen coordination of Petina Arskog, a
songwriter who is a member of the PRS KODA.
- In December 2008 we celebrated our 10 year
anniversary (though 11 years old) at the MINT, Los Angeles, which hosted
22 songwriter members performing, a huge raffle prize of over $1500 worth
in prizes, and to a packed standing room only audience. It was a fantastic
celebration and members flew in from around the US and some from Europe,
to participate.
- We have extended our global awareness campaign for a
greener planet, as part of our constitution and mission. www.songsalive.org/global.
Part of our work includes creating songs with our songwriter members that
are about global awareness. One such group we created through our program
Songcamp, in October, wrote a song called “We Need More Green” which is
now being pitched for licensing to various music supervisors.
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These kind of amazing songs come out of
co-writing days we call SONGSALIVE! SONGCAMPS.
We have hosted Songcamps in south Park Colorado, Bermuda, Los Angeles, Houston
TX, and Philadelphia PA. www.songsalive.org/songcamp
for details. Songsalive! Songcamp: We have held 15 Songcamps now,
which are very successful, and they all write in groups of 4-6, with about 3-4
songwriters per group. They have a short amount of time to write (sometimes
only an hour) then performed them to the entire conference. Our Songcamps are a
full day (or several days) of song critiquing and then co-writing sessions
overseen by professional songwriter mentors. We often have up to 50 people at a
Songcamp. Next one, South Park, Colorado in June.
- We set up a special awareness campaign about the Bush Fires in Australia in Feb 09,
on our home page and have had an overwhelming response from our worldwide
subscribers who have been donating to the Red Cross.
- We are active as a 501c)3) non profit public
education charity (Songsalive! Inc) with tax-exempt status in California and
Federal (nationall). Being a public charity also offers us the opportunity
to receive promotion and work with various causes in the industry.
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CD Sampler 10: We have
completed our 10th CD sampler compilation and are currently going through
hundreds of submissions, to select around 18 songwriters. We feature
Songwriters on the CD, (not artists) and the artists come from all around the
world - Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America. It will be
exhibited at many music conferences in 09 and 2010.
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Songsalive! continues to grow overseas under the leadership and direction of
President, Gilli Moon, based in Los Angeles. She travels to music conferences on a monthly basis promoting
Songsalive!, Australian songwriters, and our international songwriters.
- These conferences include:
2NMC Nashville TN (2003 and 04)
Artist for a Better World Festival
Hollywood 08
ASCAP Expo Los Angeles (2006-09)
Australian Music Week Melbourne Australia
(1998-2001)
Bermuda Songwriting Retreat 2006
Call To Arts Los Angeles & Orange
County (2000-2004)
CMJ New York
Dewey Beach Festival, DE (2007-08)
DIY Music Conference L.A, CA 2005-07
Durango Songwriters Expo, Santa Barbara, CA
07- 09
Females On Fire, the Los Angeles Women's
Music Festival (2007)
Global Music Entertainment Summit L.A and
NY 05
Harmony Festival - Santa Rosa, CA (2006-07)
Howlfest Newcastle NSW Australia (up until
2004)
Independent Music Conference Los Angeles
(2007-09)
Independent Music Conference, Philadelphia
and Dallas 2005-07
Indiegrrl Conference, Virginia (08-09)
Jambalaya Festival NY 09
Methodfest Film Festival (since 2007)
Midem, Cannes France (1998-2000)
Nemo Music Festival, Boston MA (2005-06)
New England Music Expo, CT (2005)
NXNE Toronto Canada 2000
Park City Film Music Festival (2006-07)
Peats Ridge Folk Festival, NSW Australia
(2006)
Rockrgrl Conference Seattle WA (2005-06)
Songsalive! Expo Los Angeles (2002 only)
South Park Music Festival, Fairplay, CO
(June 2007-09)
SXSW Austin Texas (2005-2007)
Taxi Road Rally, Los Angeles (2004-2009)
Temecula Film Music Festival (2006-07)
West Coast Songwriters Conference Palo Alto
CA (since 2004)
Worldfest L.A, CA 2006-09
- We have created MySpace pages for nearly all our
Chapters. www.myspace.com/songsalive is
the main one, with chapters linked from there or all are at www.songsalive.org/community.
This breads networking and community for our songwriters.
- Australianand European artists who tour the States or US/European artists touring Australia continue to
use our showcases internationally to create their tour stops. Songsalive! is
becoming a great organization to help original music artists tour and we
have a “touring map” online where members can find venues to perform at
all around the globe.
- With Los Angeles as the base, we now have U.S
chapters in San Francisco, Grass Valley and Berkeley California, Chicago
IL, New York NY, Boston MA, Austin TX, Nashville TN, Austin TX, Huntsville
Alabama, Philadelphia PA, Los Angeles CA, Seattle WA, Bellingham WA, Copenhagen
Denmark, Vegas N. Soon in Papua New Guinea, and Cleveland OH.
Our chapters are listed
here - Our mailing lists (including discussion lists)
combine a database of over 15,000 songwriters and composers worldwide, combining of members and subscribers.
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Workshops and Showcases: Every chapter runs a
performance showcase and many run a songwriting critique workshop once a month.
We take modest donations at the door, but mostly we spend more revenue in
promoting the events and the artists through flyers, media campaigns and email
blasts.
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Website: Our
online members portal (new since late 07) has been really successful, where members can
log in and change their profile, interact with other members and receive
opportunities. Our website has become the hub
for all musicians, songwriters and industry to connect. Members receive a
backstage pass to access great opportunities and deals from Songsalive! and a
huge string of partners we have, who include Music Connection,
A&RBandit Newsletter, Indiebible, Musicdish, Sonicbids, onlinegigs.com, CD
Baby and many others that help songwriters promote their songs to the world. Plus
we have a special program called Songsalive! Songshop where members can
submit their songs for film, tv or artist song needs. We also have an online podcast,
broadcasting members’ songs online 24/7, as well as a Member page
highlighting our Elite members online with a profile, CD review and
interview we conduct with them. Our online
store is a great tool for our members to promote and sell their music and
we have connected with 2 very reputable e-stores to help us: cdbaby.com and
indiegate.com. We feature an Elite member as “Member of the Month” each month, exposing them to the music
business at large. New, legal referral services.
***Songsalive! International Calendar of
events 2009***
All these events and more details below can be found at
www.songsalive.org/chapters
for the latest list.
The Team Worldwide as of Feb 11, 2009 1National Gilli Moon
1National Dave Harvey
1National Nancy Hashim
Austin TX Sean Michael Showalter
australia - tamworth Joan Douglas
australia-byron Jo Young
australia-sydney Roxanne Kiely
australia-sydney John Chesher
australia-sydney Russell Neal
australia-sydney Eleanor Baker
australia-sydney Rita Bratovich
australia-sydney Stephen Kiely
australia-sydney Paul Kougias
australia-sydney Laurie McKern
Bellingham WA Beth Marsau
Boston MA Chris Marston
Boston MA Jennifer Truesdale
Burlington VT Lisa Marie Judge
Chicago Mary Lemanski
Cleveland OH Seanna D. Jackson
Grass Valley CA Michael Gregory
Los Angeles CA Mike Vascellaro
Los Angeles CA Jack Cohen
Los Angeles CA Kristy Hanson
Los Angeles CA Paul Lawrence Moyer
Los Angeles CA Bob Leggett
Los Angeles CA Trudee Lunden
Los Angeles CA Rodney Stansfield O'Riley
Los Angeles CA Chelle Stipe
Los Angeles CA Jimi Yamagishi
Los Angeles CA Audrey Eisele
Nashville TN Deborah Bishop
New York Steve Archdeacon
New York Daniel Schteingart
Papua New Guinea Oala Moi
San Francisco CA Deborah Crooks
San Francisco CA Steven Andrew Kacsmar
Scandinavia-Denmark-Sweden Petina Arskog
Seattle WA Steve Mason
Vegas NV Candace Kruse
Vegas NV Mac Light
See their bios here
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ABOUT SONGSALIVE!
Songsalive! is a non-profit organization dedicated to the nurturing,
support and promotion of songwriters and composers worldwide.
Songsalive! is run by songwriters for songwriters. It acts as an
epicentre, a heart of the international songwriting community and
music markets, bridging the gaps, tapping songwriters into the pulse
of the business and at the same time giving them and their music the
support they deserve. Songsalive! gives life to songs, provide
opportunities for collaboration, create awareness about original
music, promote and educate through an amazing network of programs
designed especially for songwriters and original music. Support
Songsalive! and help energize the business of songwriting and music.
Join the Songsalive! network and become a link in the chain.
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