Songwriter's Workshop Lures Nashville's Big Names
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10.17.2009 – LMS Digital Media -The second-annual Ferriday Song Fest on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at the Arcade Theater in downtown Ferriday, is the most insightful, comprehensive and enlightening songwriting event in Louisiana. Six hit writers with decades of experience in the music industry tell it like it was, like it is, and how they got into the game of songwriting and stayed there.
Returning songwriters include Odie Blackmon, who wrote several huge hits, including George Straight's She'll Leave You with a Smile and Lee Ann Womack's I May Hate Myself in the Morning as well as multiple releases of Gary Allen's Nothing On but the Radio, which he co-wrote with another guest songwriter, Byron Hill. Other recordings include Martina McBride and many by Jim Lauderdale. Odie has just completed a DVD on the craft of songwriting and will be unveiling that at this years songfest.
The unbelievably successful Tia Sillers returns to the stage at the Arcade with her Grammy-winning hit by Lee Ann Womac, I Hope You Dance which was also the basis of her best-selling book by the same name. Tia's list of hit songs is always growing, and includes songs by artisits such as Wynonna Judd, Jessica Andrews, Trisha Yearwood and Alan Jackson.
Tia is joined this year by her husband, Mark Selby, who wrote the Dixie Chicks' hit song, There's Your Trouble and Kenny Wayne Shepperd's smash hit, Blue on Black. In fact Mark had eight songs on Kenny Wayne's CD, Live On.
Byron Hill will be joining us for the first time this year. Byron has been a Nashville songwriter for some 30 years, earning 77 Gold and Platinum Awards and 10 ASCAP Awards. Some of Byron's best known hits are Out of Your Mind by Joe Sun, Pickin' Up Strangers by Johnny Lee, Fool Hearted Memory by George Strait, The Pages of My Mind by Ray Charles, Born Country by Alabama, and Nothing On But The Radio by Gary Allan.
The song fest is the brainchild of Ferriday Mayor Glen McGlothin, who created it to bring attention to the musical legacies of Ferriday music stars, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, Jimmy Swaggart, Pee Wee Whitacker. Mayor McGlothin hopes to make Ferriday a music-tourist destination with events such as the song fest, the Delta Music Festival and attractions like the Delta Music Museum and the Lewis Family Museum.
Spearheading the event again this year is songwriter Tommy Polk, who returned home after 30 years in Nashville, Tennessee. He worked as a music publisher and talent scout for RCA records and as a professional songwriter for 20 of those years, penning Look What Followed Me Home by David Ball and I Don't Want You to Go by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. He has also had songs recorded by Crystal Gayle, Martina McBride, Diamond Rio and Jessica Andrews. As a writer of Southern Soul, he has had recordings by Bobby Blue Bland, Irma Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, Shirley Brown and Joe Louis Walker.
Full details can be found at www.ferridaysongfest.com
Please help spread the word to interested musicians and songwriters so that this event can soon become a two-day event to offer even more detailed insight to budding songwriters everywhere.
This event is sponsored by the Louisiana State Lieutenant Governor and the Office of Culture Recreation and Tourism, Friends of the Delta Museum,the Delta Museum, The Ferriday Chamber of Commerce, 95country.com and Entergy. We thank them for their support.
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