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Save the Week: Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Preps for 17th Year

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The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Presented by BMI will make paradise even sweeter during the event’s 17th annual installment Wednesday, May 2 through Sunday, May 6 in its island namesake. Benefiting Operation Homefront, the festival will feature more than 100 top-tier performing songwriters in favorite venues conveniently located throughout the island. Anchor sponsor BMI will continue its widespread support of the fest, leading Key West’s annual transformation…


From News, posted 12.06.11

Durango Songwriters Expo Offers BMI Members Discounted Registration

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BMI will sponsor the Durango Songwriters Expo, slated for October 6-8 in Boulder, Colorado at the Omni Interlocken Resort just outside the city. The Colorado countryside will be transformed into a songwriter’s ideal networking and workshopping hotspot. Approximately forty industry pros will be on site to lend hands and ears, from hit songwriters including Al Anderson, Glenn Phillips, Chuck Cannon and Tim Fagan, to…


From News, posted 9.27.11

New Performers Announced for Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival

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Presented by BMI, Perennial Favorite Slated for April 27-May 1 The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival, presented by BMI, is exploding, surpassing even the biggest dreams of its founders and longtime supporters. The 2011 lineup is unprecedentedly deeper: genre-hopping singer/songwriters Raul Malo, Marshall Chapman, and Robert Earl Keen; serial country chart-toppers Lori McKenna,


From News, posted 3.29.11

Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Preps for 16th Year

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The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival, presented by BMI, will make paradise even sweeter during the event’s 16th annual installment in its island namesake. Benefiting the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation, the festival will feature more than 100 top-tier performing songwriters. Anchor sponsor BMI will continue its widespread support of the fest, leading Key West’s annual transformation into a music mecca Wednesday, April 27 through Sunday, May 1,…


From News, posted 1.11.11

Durango Songwriter’s Expo Feb. 24-26 in Santa Barbara Wine Country

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BMI will proudly sponsor the 7th Annual Durango Songwriter's Expo/Santa Barbara Wine Country, slated for February 24-26 at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott near Solvang, CA. Part networking hive, part educational seminar, the Durango Songwriter’s Expo offers aspiring songwriters the opportunity to mingle with and learn from peers, established hit-makers, and leading industry executives. BMI troubadours Big Al Anderson, Chuck Cannon,


From News, posted 1.06.11

Durango Songwriter’s Expo Set for February

BMI is proud to sponsor the 6th annual Durango Songwriter's Expo/Santa Barbara Wine Country, Feb. 25-27 at The Santa Ynez Valley Marriott and offer a 10 per cent discount on registration to BMI members. The registration is limited to 200, with over 40 music industry pros (including BMI's Tracie Verlinde) and hit songwriters in attendance. The Expo is a combination of workshops, listening sessions, showcases, panels, and open mics. Three…


From News, posted 1.11.10

Durango Songwriters Expo Offers 10% Discount to BMI Affiliates

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BMI songwriters and publishers may now receive a 10% discount on registration for the 14th annual Durango Songwriters Expo, slated for October 8-10 in Colorado Springs, CO. Sponsored by BMI, the anticipated event will take over the Doubletree Hotel, where more than 40 music industry professionals will gather to network with and critique the work of the 200 attendees. Showcases, mixers and panel discussions dominate the packed schedule. While the…


From News, posted 9.23.09

Heidi Newfield

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Heidi Newfield may have recently launched a solo career after a decade fronting the trio Trick Pony, but that doesn’t mean she’s lost her taste for songwriting collaborations. “I love co-writing,” she declares. “I love the idea of sitting in a room and brainstorming, throwing ideas out: ‘Okay, I’ve got this and this and this, and what are you in the mood for today?…


From MusicWorld, posted 9.10.08

Green Hills Music & BMI Toast Gordon Bradberry

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BMI recently helped celebrate hit songwriter Gordon Bradberry's new publishing deal with Green Hills Music Group. Bradberry grew up on the gulf coast in Grand Isle, Louisiana, so the revelers enjoyed some of the songwriter's favorite southern Louisiana cuisine prepared by Chef "Chappy" at Chappy's on Church. Artists including Montgomery Gentry, Billy Ray Cyrus, Wayne Toups, Sammy Kershaw, Lee Greenwood, Chris…


From News, posted 2.21.08

Right Place, Right Time: Legend Dr. John Visits Nashville

Nashville’s annual songwriter festival Tin Pan South has attracted a covetable collection of performers this year, and New Orleans’ proud son Dr. John reigns among the elite. BMI hosted an intimate reception for the gravelly-voiced virtuoso on Monday, March 26, and an assembly of Music Row’s key songwriters, publishers and powerbrokers showed up to meet and reminisce with the man of the hour. Dr. John thrilled the crowd by sitting…


From News, posted 3.30.07

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Recent Al Anderson events

Apr 1 2010BMI Showcase at Tin Pan South: Nashville
Feb 28 2009Durango-Songwriters-Expo: Santa Barbara
Feb 27 2009Durango-Songwriters-Expo: Santa Barbara
Feb 26 2009Durango-Songwriters-Expo: Santa Barbara
May 31 2008Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC
May 30 2008Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC
May 29 2008Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC