2024 MARCH / APRIL WORKSHOP GUEST SPEAKERS

 The Dallas Songwriters Association has moved it's monthly workshop to the second Thursday for the first Thursday. It will remain virtual because we have members from all over the world.

Thursday, March 14 - Making Reels for social Media Marketing

                                                 FEATURES Harry Hewlett

March's meeting will feature one of the most active directors at DSA, Mr. Harry Hewlett!!  He is credited for building extensive content for the DSA Youtube channel .  He is also the person that keeps track of the talent among the members and fills the slots on out festival stages.  Harry is also the person behind all our virtual meetings and awards programs. He is co-diretor of our contests and the cog that keeps DSA rolling. This will be quite a treat, because he will share with us his extensive experience with making reels, an important tool in social media marketing.

 

 Thursday, April 11, Dr Stephen Troum

 Hand Issues That Plague Guitar Players

 

The good doctor, Stephen Troum, is a hand surgeon practicing in the DFW area. He is also a songwriter and guitar player member of DSA. He regularly performs with his band, the Troumatics , an indie rock band who have been the subject of several articles in the local newspapers and entertainment magazines. 

Who better to answer your questions about the hand not working properly than the good doctor who won the DSA Vern Dailey Songwriter of the Year Award in 2021. He understands his patients.
 https://www.thetroumatics.com

 

 

Dr. Troum is board certified in Surgery of the Hand by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) as well as a member of the prestigious American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH).
Dr. Troum has been practicing exclusively hand and upper extremity surgery for over 20 years and has been in the Dallas-Ft Worth community since 2000. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on topics including arthroscopy, vascular disease, hand infections, tumors, replantation, and various subjects in general surgery.  

https://thcboneandjoint.com/about/dr-stephen-troum-southlake-hand-surgeon.html

DSA Monthly Meeting and Song Critiques - June 3

 DSA Monthly Meeting and Song Critiques

Date: Thursday, June 3, 6:30 - 9:30

https://zoom.us/j/907852000    Zoom link

Zoom ID # 907 852 000

Featuring Harry Hewlett!  Hewlett History - 

What makes Harry tick

Harry grew up near Lubbock, Tx, and went to Texas Tech, where he sang and played guitar in a 4-piece band, playing for frat parties and HS dances. He began songwriting years later, while living in NYC, where he joined the Songwriters Guild and Nashville Songwriters Assoc He’s been writing and entertaining ever since. Now retired, he lives in Dallas, and has three CDs, World Class Dirty Old Man, Tahoka Daisy, and Garbageman. He is currently serving as A/R & Showcase Director for DSA, plus, Co-Director of the Song Contest He is our Songwriter of the Year for 2019-2020 and won Song of The Year 2020 for his song, She's So Texas, which was co-written with Chuck Ehrmann. Harry is the power that keeps DSA singing, the wizard behind the curtain that enables our DSA program whether live or on Zoom.

DSA Director Harry Hewlett is Guest Speaker for Thursday, Jan 3rd, at Half Brice Books.

“INTRO TO CD BABY & FACEBOOK / YOUTUBE MONETIZATION (or, Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Just Because You’re A Published Songwriter”)!

Harry has been very involved in getting his music out to the world, and getting paid, via online music distribution.  Harry has a BS in Ag. Eco. from Texas Tech & an MBA from Avila College in KC, MO. He spent 10 years with Pfizer Ag.  Div. at their corporate HQ’s in NYC as Product Mgr. & Manager, Sales Systems. While there he took up songwriting as a hobby & joined the Songwriters Guild and NSAI. Now on the DSA board where is serving as A&R Director.   Harry has utilized his savvy in the business world to figure out how business works in the music world so you won't want to miss it! 

Critiques will follow:
As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Bring your song on a CD or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also bring plenty of copies of the lyrics so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered in the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

Location: Half Price Books/Northwest Highway in Dallas
6:00 pm: Doors Open/Networking and visiting
7:00 pm: Program followed by song critiques for members only
Pay online for critique. https://squareup.com/store/dallas-songwriters-association or

https://dallassongwriters.org/shop/dsa-meeting-song-critique-entry/
Each song is entered into the Song of The Year and Songwriter of the Year Competition which is awarded at our December Awards Banquet. 

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VIDEO OF PAST MEETINGS

BRUCE CHANNEL : https://www.facebook.com/dallassongwriters/videos/1820749174645104/

Thanks to Harry Hewlett we have a video of the Sept 6th 2018 meeting with Bruce Channel. Bruce received an award from BMI for two million radio performances of Hey! Baby. His original record of Hey! Baby is featured in the hit movie, Dirty Dancing, and on the international sound track album, listed in BILLBOARD’s Pop Album for over three months with sales of over twelve + million units.