Hi everyone!

How has been your 2016? We've had a big year at Songsalive!, hosting performance showcases and song critique workshops across the globe. We've had a slew of fantastic music industry experts that have shared their knowledge at our workshops and through our Songcraft videos series online, but most importantly, we've had you, our songwriters and composers that are part of our membership and part of our community. We want to thank everyone for being involved in the songwriting community and keeping the spirit of original songs alive.

In the spirit of the holidays, we send you our best wishes and hope that you will all have creative opportunities to write and visualize your future. Next year, 2017 marks are 20th year (can you believe we started back in 1997??). We have traversed many changes in the music business, including the rise of the Internet, the demise of record retail stores, the surge of Internet music from Napster to the beginning of iTunes to now subscription models with Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music.

Social media has exploded and is now the number one form of marketing, but at Songsalive! we knew about community since the very beginning. We pioneered community online. We created online groups, forums, collaborations before social media was in existence. We defined "community" as the most powerful network and catalyst for musicians, artists, and songwriters' success. We've watched companies come and go, festivals and conferences come and go, and yet, we have stayed strong throughout all these years as the one constant for songwriters to get support, education, promotion, and connection.

Songsalive! over the years has had chapters in many part of the world, including Australia, England, Denmark, Toronto, Canada, and all across America from Los Angeles to Chicago, San Francisco to Seattle, Nashville to Virginia Beach, New York, Long Island, and Austin, TX. We've hosted events, festivals, music conferences. We've created co-writing song camps. We've run online programs for pitching your songs through Songshop and learning video series through Songcraft and a university for you to learn and find more opportunities. We've had a robust Partner Directory/Marketplace, where you can access discounts and opportunities through our friends and industry peers. We've issued a Songwriter of the Year Award for the last five years to an esteemed songwriter each year, which is now known as an esteemed award to receive as a songwriter.

Tuesday, December 27
New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Tuesday, January 3, 2017
New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Orange County Songsalive! Showcase
New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

Sunday, January 15, 2017
Los Angeles Songsalive! Songwriters Workshop

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
New York Songsalive! Showcase & Open Mic

 

FROM THE HEART 

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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