The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is admiring to appear its 2005 winners. Almost 15,000 songs by abecedarian and able songwriters from 82 countries were submitted to the 2005 competition, accumulation ISC's cachet as the arch songwriting accident globally Over $150,000 in banknote and prizes will be aggregate a allotment of 50 winners, including a banknote cost of $10,000 (US) to the 2005 Overall Grand Prize winner.
-- The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is admiring to appear its 2005 winners.
Almost 15,000 songs by abecedarian and able songwriters from 82 countries were submitted to the 2005 competition, accumulation ISC's cachet as the arch songwriting accident globally. Over $150,000 in banknote and prizes will be aggregate a allotment of 50 winners, including a banknote cost of $10,000 (US) to the 2005 Overall Grand Prize winner.
The 2005 ISC Overall Grand Prize is awarded to Catie Curtis and Mark Erelli for their accord of the song "People Look Around." Also accepted as the Rain song or Truth song, it deals with absolute activity issues, acclamation the appulse of Hurricane Katrina and the charge to attending at the beyond truths revealed.
Candace Avery, the architect and administrator of ISC, says, "Catie Curtis and Mark Erelli body the actual accomplished ability of abreast songwriters, and we are accustomed that they chose to access ISC. Their acceptable song is a affective and able acknowledgment to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and is both appropriate and around-the-clock in its adapted and agreeable content. The song is a acceptable bequest to the canicule if singer/songwriters wrote and sang about issues and amusing change."
Dubbed a "folk-rock goddess" by The New Yorker, Catie Curtis has been autograph songs anytime back she was 15. Over the amount of seven albums, coffeehouse shows, festivals, abode concerts, and touring, Catie has becoming a devoted, grassroots fan abject and analytical acclaim for her music. Her abnormal and blooming indie career has been accurate in the afresh appear film, Tangled Stories.
A abounding and aggressive songwriter, Mark Erelli holds a master's amount in evolutionary analysis but absitively to put it abreast in the following of music as a career. No Depression calls his songwriting "tasteful, able and sensitive...unpredictable as a bean of mercury." He just afresh appear his fifth CD, "Hope & Other Casualties," and he is already accepting accustomed as one of America's a lot of able singer/songwriters.
In accession to the Overall Grand Prize winner, abounding added admirable songwriters aswell allotment in the authority of acceptable their corresponding categories in ISC 2005. These winners barrage from all over the world, apery assorted cultures and alignment from accomplished amateurs to acclimatized songwriting veterans.
Please appointment www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm to apprehend all of ISC's winners.
Judges for the 2005 antagonism included: Tom Waits; Loretta Lynn; Sonny Rollins; John Scofield; Steve Vai; Macy Gray; Joss Stone; MercyMe; Amy Ray (Indigo Girls); Darryl McDaniels (Run D.M.C.); LeAnn Rimes; Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse); Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan); BeBe Winans; Peter Hook (New Order); Benji Madden (Good Charlotte); Charlie Musselwhite; The Donnas; Monte Lipman (President, Universal Records); Keith Wozencroft (President, Capitol Music UK); Glen Barros (CEO/President, Concord Records); Bruce Iglauer (Founder/President, Alligator Records); Cameron Strang (President, New West Records); Dan Storper (President, Putumayo World Music); Michael McDonald (President, ATO Records); Alexandra Patsavas (Owner, The Chop Shop Music Supervision - credits cover The OC, Grey's Anatomy, Without A Trace, Carnivale, Rescue Me ); Darrale Jones (VP A&R Urban, Atlantic Records); Chris Parr (VP Music Programming & Talent Relations, CMT); Barbara Sedun (VP Creative, EMI Music Publishing Canada); Tara Griggs-Magee (Executive VP of Gospel/Urban Music, Sony Records); Leib Ostrow (CEO, Music For Little People), Thomas Brooman (Co-Founder/Artistic Director, WOMAD); Cory Robbins (Founder/President, Robbins Entertainment); Emily Wittmann (Vice-President, Nick Records); Patrick Moxey (President, Ultra Records/You Records/Sequence Records/Escondida Music/Empire Mgmt.) and Danny Epstein (Music Supervisor, Sesame Street/Sesame Workshop).
ISC is now accepting entries for 2006. ISC is admiring to advertise that the Overall Grand Prize for 2006 has been added and now includes a $25,000 banknote prize, the better banknote Grand Prize of any songwriting competition. Visit www.songwritingcompetition.com for added advice and access forms.
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