DSA MONTHLY MEETING APRIL 7, 2022

Guest Speaker

Eyvindur Karlsson of Strongwriter.net

Over the past 20+ years, he worked as a professional songwriter and written music for award winning musicals, TV shows, other artists and his own singer-songwriter career. His songs have been performed by artists in Iceland and abroad, and he has gained a reputation as a prolific writer of memorable songs. Karlsson says, "Songwriting is a passion of mine, and when I'm not writing songs I love to talk shop with other songwriters."

Karlsson's mission is to help songwriters around the world to stop relying on "inspiration" and other myths, and empower them to create fantastic songs on-demand, making a living doing what they love. That's how he is making the world a better place - one song at a time.  Check out his youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/EyvindurKarlssonOfficial

Join us via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/907852000

or on Facebook live https://www.facebook.com/dallassongwriters/

You can now view the meeting on youtube: https://youtu.be/XSi4mr4FWA0

Critiques will follow:

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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. 

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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. 

DALLAS SONGWRITERS MONTHLY MEETINGS

DSA MEETING MARCH 3Jack Kay is the inventor and President of Tx-Watt, a maker of a lightweight tube hybrid guitar amp that fits many styles of music. Jack will tell us how his amp can improve the sound of your guitars! This should be very informative so don't miss it! 

ABOUT JACK KAY
Jack grew up on a dairy farm in Buda, Tx.

He attended Texas A&M studying Business - Computer Systems

He founded his own consulting company, KConsulting, in Austin which led him to Design, Build , Train, Manage and Support enterprise class , best of breed systems for clients, from 10-500 servers and 10 -50,000 users. Technologies include VMware, Microsoft, Unix, Linux, Cisco.

All the while Jack was also playing guitar and leading singing in bands around Austin and also touring. In fact I met Jack when girlfriend Debbie Beinhorn brought him to the MIDEM suite at the 4 Seasons in Austin during SXSW. They helped me get ready for one of the many suite parties I had while marketing for MIDEM.

Jack has a great voice and It’s very high. I was suggested by Debbie (a voice coach) that he be my demo singer for the Billy character of my Give Me A Break Musical. He set a standard so high that was hard for the actors who came later to live up to. I love the tracks he layed.

Jack is so creative that he designed and patented amplifiers that produce vintage analog tone, founding another company, Tx-Watt Amps which Jack is gonna tell you all about tonight.

Jack currently lives in Dripping Springs where I’ve spent a few heavenly days swimming and watching the deer wander his property.

Also, be sure to get your songs critiqued by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton and considered for the 2022 Member Song Contest and Songwriter of the Year. Just email in your songs on mp3 with lyrics to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com. Cost is $10 per song. You can pay online for critiques at:

https://squareup.com/store/dallas-songwriters-association

http://www.dallassongwriters.org

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 MEETING GUEST FOR MAY 6 IS EDYE BROOKSHIRE

 Original scheduled for March, we had to reschedule due to complications from the winter storm.

Edye Brookshire is a songwriter and publisher and has had the privilege of qualifying and attending the Country Music Awards in Nashville twice.  She qualified as an artist/singer, songwriter, as well as publisher.  She’s had cuts that “Womans Point of View” recorded by Janet McBride and had a song stolen by Tammy Wynette. Edye has appeared in Local Community Theatres, stage acts and one act plays.  She has shared the stage with Bill Mack, Wynn Stewart, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Hank Thompson, Ray Price, Waylon Jennings and many others.  She has made several industrial commercials, has been in two movies and has appeared on several TV programs, including TV Dallas with J.R. Ewing and the cast. Edye currently performs with her band, Rolling Country.

Edye own’s a summer home situated on 10 acres in Oleta, Oklahoma where she has an outdoor 53 foot stage in the middle of a lush meadow. The first weekend of every month, she hosts the Big River Festival where touring singers, songwriters and musicians camp out in the meadow and perform on the stage. Everyone brings food for their community cook-out.

Critiques will follow:

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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. 

DSA APRIL 2021 MEETING FEATURES GUEST SPEAKER HELENE CRONIN

 Date: Thursday, April 1

Location: Your home
6:30 pm: Networking and visiting

7:00 pm: Program followed by song critiques for members

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

Zoom ID # 907 852 000

Featuring Helene Cronin!

Helene Cronin is a Texas artist who spent most of 2019 working on a new full-length record, produced by Matt King in Nashville. OLD GHOSTS & LOST CAUSES was released to high praise on Oct. 11, 2019. This comes right on the heels of being named a 2018 New Folk Winner at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival. Helene considers her writing style a merger between Americana and Country but she's perhaps best described simply as an acoustic storyteller. You will certainly enjoy hearing her songwriting stories!

Critiques will follow:

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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. 

DSA MONTHLY MEETING MARCH 4TH WITH GUEST SPEAKER EDYE BROOKSHIRE -Due to winter storm we have rescheduled Edye for May and our very own Harry Hewlett will teach us how to get a better Zoom performance

Edye Brookshire is a songwriter and publisher and has had the privilege of qualifying and attending the Country Music Awards in Nashville twice.  She qualified as an artist/singer, songwriter, as well as publisher.  She’s had cuts that “Womans Point of View” recorded by Janet McBride and had a song stolen by Tammy Wynette. Edye has appeared in Local Community Theatres, stage acts and one act plays.  She has shared the stage with Bill Mack, Wynn Stewart, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Hank Thompson, Ray Price, Waylon Jennings and many others.  She has made several industrial commercials, has been in two movies and has appeared on several TV programs, including TV Dallas with J.R. Ewing and the cast. Edye currently performs with her band, Rolling Country.

Edye own’s a summer home situated on 10 acres in Oleta, Oklahoma where she has an outdoor 53 foot stage in the middle of a lush meadow. The first weekend of every month, she hosts the Big River Festival where touring singers, songwriters and musicians camp out in the meadow and perform on the stage. Everyone brings food for their community cook-out.

Critiques will follow:

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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. 

DSA MONTHLY MEETING FEB 4 2021 with guest speaker EMMELINE MILES

 Emmeline Miles is a musician and candidate for Doctor of Liberal Studies at SMU's Simmons School of Education and Human Development. Because music engages the entire brain and reaches aspects of the human spirit that are beyond words, the creation of music is uniquely capable of facilitating post-traumatic healing. Emmeline is doing research that seeks to identify whether the act of creative writing—with or without music—can better prepare children for adverse experiences and provide them with the tools to process those experiences.

Critiques will follow:

As usual, for members we will also have song critiques by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton.  Play your song live, from your computer, or your phone or email an MP3 to Harry Hewlett at hhhewlett@gmail.com, and also you can display your lyrics from your computer so the members can give comments as well.  You will also be entered into the DSA Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year contest. The cost is $10 per song.

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.