Calling all Texas songwriters! Season 5 of Texas Songwriter U undeway. Call-for-entries ends October 1st, 2018! Grammy Award-winning friend Liz Rose again joins host Jack Ingram; Organization partners with BMI.
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Calling all Texas songwriters! Season 5 of Texas Songwriter U underway. Call-for-entries ends October 1st, 2018! Grammy Award-winning friend Liz Rose again joins host Jack Ingram; Organization partners with BMI.
The Texas Songwriter U discovery and development program announces its call for entries to all adult Texas-resident and
native-Texas songwriters; program delivers an incredible workshop and showcase experience for finalists including “Industry Day” access; selected songwriting winner earns opportunities for co-writes with award-winning songwriters, opening for Jack Ingram, studio time, performances in Key West, and
more!
So you think you're a songwriter? Write from the heart and let us hear your songs.
Texas Songwriter U is an annual songwriting competition, educational workshop and showcase event serving to identify, develop and support the best adult songwriters both in and from Texas while improving upon the quality and quantity of professional songwriting across our state. The annual workshop and showcase program will return for eight selected songwriters
to Austin, November 28th – November 30th, 2018.
How do I apply? Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, and have either been born in Texas, currently live in Texas, or have lived in Texas for five (5) consecutive years. Applicants may hold a current publishing agreement, and TxSU will accept both self-published and co-written songs. A $25 processing fee is required of all contest applicants. Applicants are required to upload two songs (mp3 format, not to exceed 25
Mb) and lyric sheets. Songwriters register here: https://TexasSongwriterU.com/Registration
TxSU Selected Songwriter: What does the selected songwriting winner (from among the eight finalists) receive?
An opportunity to co-write one song with Jack Ingram, and with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Liz Rose
An opening for Jack Ingram at a landmark Texas
venue (travel expenses paid)
A song performance at 2019 MJM (Mack, Jack & McConaughey) charity after-pick party, (travel not paid)
3 nights in Key West, playing the Key West Songwriters Festival (travel and hotel paid)
A 6-night venue-paying residency at
Key West’s Smokin' Tuna Saloon (travel not paid)
A recording studio demo session at Austin's famed Arlyn Studios (travel not paid)
A new acoustic/electric guitar
TxSU Finalists: What do the eight selected all-star finalists receive?
A two-night
stay at Austin's boutique Hotel Ella during the workshop
A performance in the Texas Songwriter U Kick-Off at Yeti Flagship
A performance in the Texas Songwriter U Showcase inside Austin’s premier listening room, The Saxon Pub. Each will perform during a two-hour session following opening performances by Jack Ingram and Friends
A two-day songwriting workshop with host Jack Ingram and Liz Rose
A workshop "Industry Day" complete with access to panels of music leadership including a manager, tour manager, publisher, booking agent, studio owner, and PRO leader (performance rights org), and more
Song feedback
and post-event support from our workshop leadership
Professional photography keepsakes highlighting the workshop and showcase experience
TxSU: What is in it for entering?
One applicant name will be drawn during our workshop and awarded a new acoustic guitar signed by Jack Ingram and Friends.
The opportunity to be selected as one of eight finalists, based on your songwriting, and invited to Austin, November 28th-30th. Finalists participate in a two-day songwriting workshop and showcase performance (details above).
About Texas Songwriter U: Texas Songwriter U (TxSU), in collaboration with Texas-born singer-songwriter Jack Ingram, the Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association and new partner Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), announces its 5th Annual Texas Songwriter U discovery and development songwriting program. Texas Songwriter U is now accepting the application of all lyrical, musical genres into its 2018 competition. Songwriters have until midnight, Monday, October 1, 2018, to submit two songs via upload to TexasSongwriterU.com. Eight selected songwriters will be invited to its 2-day workshop and showcase in Austin, November 28th - 30th, joining host Ingram and returning Grammy Award-winning workshop mentor, American country music songwriter Liz
Rose.
Scenes from last year's Texas Songwriter U 2017: (Clockwise, upper left) Last year's winner, Leslie Powell, unveils her Epiphone Archtop Guitar. / 2017 mentor Jon Randall and Jack Ingram take the stage to kick off last year's 2017 Texas Songwriter U Showcase at The Saxon Pub. / Jon Randall and Liz Rose engage
with finalists in the 2017 songwriter workshop. / The 2017 Texas Songwriter U eight all-star selections, invited to Austin for the workshop and showcase, seen with host Jack Ingram and mentors Liz Rose and Jon Randall
(right).
“The word unbelievable is overused and under-appreciated, but it's the only word that comes to mind when people have asked about my experience with Texas Songwriter U,” says 2015 winner Jefferson Clay. “The networking opportunities are tremendous. The opportunity to share my songs on a legendary stage like The Saxon Pub was unreal. But to have Jack Ingram and Radney Foster – colossal forces of songwriting and heroes of mine – not only offer precious,
road-worn advice and wisdom, but tell me that my songs are worthy? Well, there's nothing like it. It's just unbelievable. Programs that provide this caliber of opportunity for young songwriters like myself are so rare, and I couldn't be more grateful for everyone involved.”
“What strikes me most about Texas Songwriter U is the generosity of the program,” says 2014 Texas Songwriter U winner, Benton Leachman. “Texas Songwriter U provided my fellow contestants and me with unbelievable
opportunities for networking, along with a chance to pick the brains of some of the nation's best songwriting veterans, and an opportunity to play at one of the coolest listening rooms in Texas – the Saxon Pub. It’s very encouraging to know that people out there actually care about up-and-coming songwriters enough to do something like this, and I'm very grateful to have been a part of
it."
