We had a sold out show on Thursday for the finals of our 12th Annual MSA Songwriting Contest! Congratulations to all of our finalists and particularly our three winners: 1st Place Karen Gray - song “These are the Dreams” 2nd Place John Schindler -song “Indian Hill” 3rd Place Ronnie Mocciola – song “Hazel” ...
MSA had a field of 34 entries for this year's event. Three judges – blinded to contestant names - ranked each song for lyrics, melody, originality, song structure, and overall impact. The rankings were combined to choose six finalists. The top ten songs were extremely close in scoring and combined ranking, a testament to the high-quality of song writing from MSA members. All of the songs were worthy contenders. The six finalists who will compete live for the top three prizes are: Karen Gray Ronnie Mocciola Adam Fromm John Schindler Phillip Redo Stan Keach. Song Contest Finals will return as a full live event this year, Thursday, November 10th, from 7-9 PM, at Nomad (the former Frontier) located in Fort Andross, 14 Maine Street, Brunswick, Maine. ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD...
In our 2018-2019 season of SOS - Songwriters On Stage - at Frontier in Brunswick, we continue to be impressed with the songwriters of Maine. We've had great audiences, and they have appreciated the rich diversity of songwriting talent. MSA is already looking ahead to our next season of SOS, so get in contact with us if you'd like to be considered for performing. And by all means, come on out the first Tuesday of the month (September - May) and hear some great songwriters! Our next SOS will be October 2nd hosted by Will Harris and his guests will be Kevin Libby, Karen Biser, Tom Ward and emerging artist Troy Youngblood. Tickets are on sale now @ https://www.explorefrontier.com/event/songwriters-on-stage-5/...
If you were at Frontier on October 29th, you heard six wonderful Maine songwriters perform their works for a packed house. Our finalists this year were Jenny Lou Drew, Adam Babcock, Sally Ann Morgan, Richard Wallace, Ruth Hill, and Doug Kolmar, and they put on a fine show. The judges were impressed with the well-crafted stories and tunes that our songwriters shared, and after lengthy deliberation (the longest ever!), Ruth Hill took the prize for her song “Oh, Brother Mine”. Doug Kolmar and Sally Morgan also took prizes for their songs “No You Know” and “Sugarcane”. You can catch their performances on the MSA facebook page or YouTube channel https://youtu.be/7dKcV9wAieo . Ruth Hill performed her winning song on WCSH6 “207” program on Wednesday, November 30, 2016. http://www.wcsh6.com/local/207 ...
MSA once again held the finals of the annual song contest at Frontier in Brunswick to a full house. Six contestants performed a warm up song followed by their composition vying for the winning song for 2015. Finalists included Brad Hooper, Jenny Lou Drew, Rob Cimitile, Andrew Thomas, Jenny Van West and Joel Dobbins. Songs were judged by Jerry Perron, Peter Alexander, and Ronda Dale on originality, melody, lyrics, song structure, and overall impact. The top prize went to Jenny Van West for her song "Nellie". Jenny was joined on stage by her son, Baxter, accompanying her on guitar. You can watch her performance on YouTube. Second place went to Joel Dobbins for his song "Unbury Your Head" and third place went to Rob Cimitile for "A Plot in Falmouth." ...