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Hello Songsters!

Remember - Princeton Songwriters Monthly Meeting:

Tuesday, September 2nd., 7:30 PM
The First Reformed Church
9 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ

CONTENTS:

* Sept. meeting

* New Coffeehouse Announcement - Second Saturday Music Cafe

* Aspire2Music looking for songs

* Barbara Cloyd Play for Publishers

* PASA - The Philadelphia Area Songwriters Alliance

* CMA at Joes Pub in NYC

* Non Member Attendance Fee

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*Our next meeting...

is this Tuesday. For those having songs critiqued, bring about 12 copies of lyrics. See you there!

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* New Coffee House - Second Saturday Music Cafe

A new coffee house will be starting in October at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, NJ on the corner of Neilson and Bayard Streets. www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com. Princeton Songwriters Coordinator/Performing Songwriter Arlon Bennett will be opening for Chuck Brodsky in February. Princeton Songwriters members will also receive a reduced admission at all shows! Promoter Frank Glaz mentioned that Second Saturday Music Cafe will give local undiscovered talent an opportunity to perform as an opening act.

Shows begin every Second Saturday at 8 P.M. Tickets may be ordered in advance for $35 or pay $40 at the door. (Special price for children 12 and under $10 - not available in advance.) Second Saturday will be held upstairs in a spacious room with tables. Via Dolce of East Brunswick, NJ will be providing quality coffee and pastry for the shows. For more information, check out www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com. The opening show on Oct. 11 features Spook Handy and Jim Albertson.
Advance tickets are available now to all shows on the web site.

*** Support Live music! AND support yourself by supporting a songwriter! ***

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* Anne Freeman of Aspire 2 Music LLC...

announces that she's looking for songs for a female country artist from the UK who is signed to an indie label and has radio action in the UK. She's looking for songs aka Miranda Lambert" edgy, rock-based country. Ballads should be dramatic heart-break or bitter sweet.
Those wanting to pitch for this project should e-mail me for permission to submit and use "UK Artist Pitch #500".

Anne Freeman, President
Aspire 2 Music LLC
PO Box 5306
Clinton, NJ 08809
info@aspire2music.com
"Quality Cuts for Your Projects"
The Aspire 2 Music Song Pitch Page: Where indie country songwriters and artists make music together. www.myspace.com/aspire2music

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* Barbara Cloyd Play for Publishers

Barbara is currently taking applications for her next workshop in October! See her Myspace page all about it at www.myspace.com/nashvillesongwritingworkshops.

ARLON NOTE - I attended one of these, and it was a really worthwhile experience if you want to see a packed microcosm of how the Nashville publishing biz works.

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*PASA - Philadelphia Area Songwriters' Alliance www.pasamusic.org

Check them out! Their motto: 'Fostering community, craft, education and career development'

Events and activities: Song-Share workshops (song-critique with fellow songwriters), monthly House Concerts with 'open chair'
showcase, Summer SongFest and Winter SongWorks (day-long events for sharing and crafting original songs), occasional songwriting workshops by regionally and nationally recognized professionals.

Membership information: Membership and most events are free. If events are held in private homes, we require all attendees to provide full name, address and phone. Join our mailing list by sending this information to lincolnsongs@aol.com

ARLON NOTE - A song on my new CD came out of one of these workshops!

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* CMA SONGWRITERS SERIES RETURNS TO JOE'S PUB SEPT 9 WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOSH TURNER AT 9:30 PM SHOW NASHVILLE - The CMA Songwriters Series returns to Joe's Pub in New York City for another intimate night of songs and storytelling on Tuesday, Sept. 9 (6:30 and 9:30
PM/ET) with special guest Josh Turner during the second show.

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*Non Member Policy:
Non members of NSAI are welcome to attend our meetings.Two complimentary meetings are available to you. This includes having your song critiqued. Please note that we start with members first than if time allows we critique non members. Non Member fee is $10. Collected from individuals who have exceeded the two complimentary meetings but wish to continue attending. Advantages of being a member can be found on NSAI's web site: http://www.nashvillesongwriters.com
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Write on!
Arlon Bennett, Volunteer Co-coordinator
John Sonntag, Volunteer Co-coordinator
Cindy Gordon, Volunteer Newsletter Coordinator

* Submit your news and announcements
to:news@princetonsongwriters.org.

Hey Folks,
Remember our meeting for August 5th has been cancelled. We are taking
a vacation. Save your 12 copies of your latest hit for our Sept.
meeting. We'll return well rested on Tue. Sept. 2nd. Enjoy.
Arlon, John and Cindy

-- Content --

1. Song Camp 102
2. News from Aspire Music Publishing
3. Mountain Stage NewSong Contest
4. New Coffee House Starting at First Reformed Church of New
Brunswick, NJ

1. NSAI SONG CAMP PROMISES INDUSTRY ACCESS, INTENSE TRAINING
Special Song Camp Attendee Rate at Millennium Maxwell House Hotel
(Nashville, Tennessee) -- Nashville Songwriters Association
International (NSAI) will host the industry-leading Song Camp 102 at
Nashville's Millennium Maxwell House Hotel July 20-22, 2008.
Songwriters of all levels will have unparalleled access and critical
training by some of the most successful writers in music.

Song Camp 102 is a stand-alone program, headed up this year by hit
songwriter and author Jason Blume and Tim Johnson. The multi-faceted
camp has a large and varied faculty allowing participants to choose
from a menu of offerings depending upon personal interest and
preference of class subject. From melody, to rejection at its finest,
to the art of the publishing deal, to rewriting and the dos and don'ts
of Music Row -- you'll be inundated with the tools and information
that are the pieces to the elaborate puzzle -- How Do I Write and How
Do I Succeed?In addition to Blume, who has had songs recorded by The
Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, John Berry and Steve Azar and
Johnson, whose credits include songs by Darryl Singletary, Mark
Chesnutt, Collin Raye and Diamond Rio, 2008 Song Camp 102 faculty
includes Brent Baxter, Liz Hengber, Charley Stefl and Chuck Jones.">
Baxter has had his name on cuts by Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Lady
Antebellum, and John Pierce. Hengber has had cuts on albums for Reba
McEntire, Andy Griggs and Clay Davidson, and she is also the author of
The Do's And Don'ts Of Music Row.Since moving to Nashville in 1984,
Charley Stefl has had cuts by Garth Brooks, the Marshall Tucker Band,
George Jones, Lee Ann Womack, Blake Shelton and a host of others.
Chuck Jones has had his songs recorded by artists as diverse as Patti
Labelle, Kenny Rogers, Ronnie Milsap, Chris LeDoux, The Fabulous
Thunderbirds, Charlie Daniels, Reba McEntire and more. Cost of the
three-day event is $425.00 for NSAI members and $525.00 for
Non-members and includes classes, daily continental breakfast and
daily lunch. The cost does not include lodging.

The Millennium Maxwell House Hotel is offering a special discounted
nightly rate of $109.00 per room for Song Camp registrants. Please
contact the hotel directly at (615) 259 4343 or ">maxwell@mhrmail.com
to book rooms at the discounted rates. For additional information,
please visit ">http://events.nashvillesongwriters.com. For questions,
contact: ">songcamps@nashvillesongwriters.com.

More info on NSAI Song Camp 102...
July 20-22, 2008
Reserve Your Place TODAY!! Song Camp 102 is a stand-alone program,
headed up this year by hit songwriter and author Jason Blume. This
multi-faceted camp has a large and varied faculty allowing
participants to choose from a menu of offerings depending upon
personal interest and preference of class subject. From melody, to
rejection at its finest, to the art of the publishing deal, to
rewriting and the dos and don'ts of Music Row -- you'll be inundated
with the tools and information that are the pieces to the elaborate
puzzle -- How Do I Write and How Do I Succeed? For more information,
visit www.nashvillesongwriters.com
<http://www.nashvillesongwriters.com/> or call NSAI at 615-256-3354.

1-800-321-6008

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2: Aspire 2 Music
I'm looking for songs (any genre) that have food or drink in the
song for a food network radio program. If you would like to submit a
pitch, write "Food Song" in the subject line. The MP3 must be no less
than 320 - not 128, which is typical for the MP3s that you usually
send to me. They will not accept less than 320. Write to ask
permission to submit and I will let you know when to send it in so
that my mailbox doesn't get overloaded. Thanks!

Anne Freeman, President
Aspire 2 Music LLC
PO Box 5306
Clinton, NJ 08809
info@aspire2music.com
"Quality Cuts for Your Projects"
The Aspire 2 Music Song Pitch Page: Where indie country songwriters
and artists make music together. www.myspace.com/aspire2music

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3: Mountain Stage NewSong Contest
General Round deadline is Sept. 1st. - only a couple of weeks away,
and we want to make sure as many artists as possible are aware of this
opportunity.
Also, we've created a discount code for Songwriters Hall of Fame and
NSAI . . . they are SHFnewsong2008 and NSAInewsong2008, respectively.
All members who use it will get $5 off the price of submission for
both their first and second song submissions. The code can be used
when submitting via sonicbids (http://www.sonicbids.com/newsong) or
mail-in.

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4. Second Saturday Music Cafe:
A new coffee house will be starting in October at the First Reformed
Church of New Brunswick, NJ on the corner of Neilson and Bayard
Streets. www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com
<http://www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com/> . Princeton Songwriters
Coordinator/Performing Songwriter Arlon Bennett will be opening for
Chuck Brodsky in February. Princeton Songwriters will receive a
reduced admission at all shows. According to Frank Glaz, although the
headline performers are well known in the folk music community, Second
Saturday Music Cafe will give local undiscovered talent an opportunity
to perform as an opening act.

Shows begin every Second Saturday at 8 P.M. Tickets may be ordered in
advance for $35 or pay $40 at the door. (Special price for children 12
and under $10 - not available in advance.) Second Saturday will be
held upstairs in a spacious room with tables. Via Dolce of East
Brunswick, NJ will be providing quality coffee and pastry for the
shows.
For more information, check out www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com
<http://www.secondsaturdaymusiccafe.com/> .

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Write on!
Arlon Bennett, Volunteer Co-coordinator
John Sonntag, Volunteer Co-coordinator
Cindy Gordon, Volunteer Newsletter Coordinator

* Submit your news and announcements
to:news@princetonsongwriters.org

Hey Folks,
It's true. Our meeting for August 5th has been cancelled. No need to make 12 copies of your latest hit this time around. If you have save them for our Sept. meeting. We'll return well rested on Tue. Sept. 2nd. Enjoy.
Arlon and John