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Dear IFS Readers,

Have a situation and question for you,

My latest song is
The FAT Tuesday / Mardi Gras Song
It's a cute uptempo party song Performed by Gayla LeJeune and Gumbo
Rodeo
Written by 2004 Gayla LeJeune, Mike Simmons, Max Fontenot, & Ande
Rasmussen
You can hear it on:

http://gaylaink.com/
or
http://www.songramp.com/view.ez?sampleid=26210

Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras is Tuesday, February, 8 2005

What would you suggest we do to promote our song from now till Fat
Tuesday?
I guess our goal is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Do you have any suggestions for:
What we should be doing?
I'd appreciate it if you'd have a listen and share your ideas with
me.

Thank you,

Ande

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The IFS Featured Song is

"It's Time For Roses"

written by Dennis Livingston
http://www.wwwebstage.com/realaudio/timeforroses.ram
It's a beautiful song with the great vocalist, Dane Vannatter, one of
Boston's finest singers of this genre.


As an internationally performed cabaret songwriter, my material pulls
on the style of standards from the American Songbook era, but with
lyrics based on contemporary story-telling portraits.
"It's Time For Roses" is a ballad depicting a shy, bookish guy who is
wary of making a commitment until he meets a woman whose attraction
cannot be denied. The vocalist is Dane Vannatter, one of Boston's
finest singers of this genre.

best,

Dennis Livingston
From: dennis@...

You can hear my cabaret & theater songs,
view lyrics, request sheet music &utilize
the extensive links at your first-stop portal
to the cabaret world:
http://www.dennislivingston.com/


If you'd like one of your songs to be considered to be the
IFS Featured Song
send me
one email featuring
one song with
one link to the song.
If you like also include the songs STORY,
what inspired it,
why you wrote it,
who wrote it with you,
anything memorable happen while you were writing it as well as
a little info about you.

Please put everything in the email,
I won't download attachments.
I want hear and share great songs with IFS readers.

Send your email to:
AndeRasmussen@...
In the subject field write
IFS FEAT

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EVER HEARD OF www.thefacebook.com

It is sweeping through universities like crazy.
If you are a student, faculty, or alumni you can get register with
them.

It's like myspace.com But it's focused on university communities.

Members can provide a picture, their contact information, classes
their're taking, music they like, movies they like, jobs they have,
groups belong to at the university and on thefacebook.com, their
class year and major, info about themselves, their favorite quotes,
Then members can link to their friends and people they know. Plus
they can send messages back and forth. To one person, a particular
group or all their friends. People are addictively checking their
facebook accounts to find out what's new.

Here's how the facebook.com could help your music.

If you make music that appeals to college students in a particular
city and if you have gigs and if you have a following or want to
build it, you can ask your fans to list you first in their list of
favorite music. You can tell your fans about your gigs and invite
them and ask them to invite their friends. Maybe you can think up
creative ways to get more people to show up at your gigs.

How much you make a year as a performer is based on
How many CDs you sell.
How many people show up at your gigs and how much they pay
How much merch you sell.

ON thefacebook.com When you click on a particular item of interest
it brings up every one with the same interest.

San Marcos is a University town. Texas State is there. Cheatham
Street is a famous bar. Sometimes it's packed and sometimes it's
empty. If there's a full parking lot, the college students will stop
and check out what's going on, if it's empty they'll drive right on
by.

If you can gain a following of college students, they can be
extremely loyal fans. If you're gig is the place everyone's gonna be,
you'll get great turn outs.

Check out www.thefacebook.com
It's the latest rage.

Are you a member of www.thefacebook.com?
What about your fans?

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Kerrville Newfolk Competition

If you are an excellent performing singer songwriter
I HIGHLY recommend you consider entering the following.

2005 GRASSY HILL NEW FOLK GUIDELINES

The 2005 GRASSY HILL KERRVILLE NEW FOLK COMPETITION will be held
during the 34th Annual Kerrville Folk Festival on Saturday and
Sunday, May 28 & 29, 2005. Out of 800 entries, thirty-two writer-
performers will be invited to share their original songs.
Six NEW FOLK WINNERS will be selected from the thirty-two and will
return on Sunday, June 6 to perform 20 minutes of their original
songs and receive a
$250 Award from the Texas Folk Music Foundation, plus
$150 from Vic and Reba Heyman and
$50 from the Jim Ross Memorial Fund.
They will also win a year's subscription or renewal to Performing
Songwriter Magazine.
Other prizes may be added at a later date.
All of these concerts will be staged at the Threadgill Theater in the
Quiet Valley Ranch campgrounds, 9 miles south of the city of
Kerrville on TX Hwy 16.

Established at the suggestion of Peter Yarrow in 1972, these annual
concerts are one of the high points of the year for songwriters from
all across the country. The Judges selecting the six Award Winners
for 2005 will be announced shortly.

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE is MARCH 15, 2005

1. All writer-performers are invited to send the Kerrville Folk
Festival one rewound cassette (without box) or one home-burned CD (no
jewel case) of two original songs only (total time should not exceed
8 minutes) If you send a cassette, both songs should be on the same
side. LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER SONGWRITER PLEASE.

For more details drop by:
http://www.kerrville-music.com/newfolk.htm

This is a big deal and could greatly help your career if you are one
of the 32 chosen, or if you make it to the final 6. some IFS readers
have in the past and others will

Good luck

Ande

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Steve Seskin is doing a
3 day workshop at the
Old No.9 Road House on
April 8-10, 2005


Imagine taking a songwriting class from a songwriter who has made it.
You can!
Steve Seskin has written seven number one songs, including Grammy-
nominated
Grown Men Don't Cry, recorded by Tim McGraw,
Don't Laugh at Me, recorded by Mark Wills
winning NSAI Song of the Year and Music Row Magazine Song of the Year
in 1999.

Steve enjoys teaching; he is an insightful, helpful and charismatic
teacher.

Steve has been invited by Nashville Songwriters Association
International (NSAI) to lecture at NSAI teaching nights in Nashville
since 1995; he was invited as a guest lecturer at NSAI Spring
Symposium in 1997 and NSAI Songwriting Cruise in 1998 and 1999. Steve
has taught regional NSAI workshops in Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA,
Vancouver, BC, Banff, Boston, MA, Fresno, CA, Sacramento, CA,
Seattle, WA, Greenville, SC, Charlotte, NC, Washington, DC, Detroit,
MI, Columbus, OH, Kansas City, MO, and Nashville, TN. He has been
Staff Instructor at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival for the past 7
years.

Since 1988, Steve has taught beginning and advanced classes for the
West Coast Songwriters Association. He continues to teach about all
aspects of writing lyrics and music, including critique classes.
Steve has also been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music and
on the faculty at San Francisco State University. These are just some
of his songwriting workshop and song school management experiences.

As one of Steve's students says so well, I have benefited from
Steve's encyclopedic knowledge of songcraft at several song schools.
He not only writes hit country songs on a regular basis, but is an
amazingly enthusiastic, entertaining, concise and effective
songwriting teacher. Long may he teach! Steve's songwriting courses
include; Intro to Lyric Writing, Melody, Rhyming and Metaphor, Point
of View, Writing/Rewriting, Inspiration, Music Business, and
Collaboration.

"This year, at The Swannanoa Gathering, a friend of mine asked why I
liked Steve Seskin so much - I was taking two of his week-long
classes. I told her, first, I like the man. Second, I love his songs
and third, he is a GREAT teacher. After she'd spent the week around
Steve I asked her if she wanted to ask me that question again She
just laughed and signed up for this retreat."
Bruce Johnson,
NSAI Coordinator

Spend three days with Steve Seskin at the Old No.9 in the beautiful
Texas Hill Country
for an intense and inspirational musical experience full of fun, good
food and fellowship!
April 8-10, 2005.
Limited to 20 students

Old No.9 Road House
523 Waring-Welfare Rd.
Warring, TX 78074
COST includes Tuition, Fee, Room and Board
for more details drop by
www.oldno9.org

email kricket
kricketmri@...

call kricket
Phone: 830-995-4413 or 508-314-4762

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Write on!
Ande Rasmussen
Editor and Publisher of I F S, Inspirations For Songwriters

Contact info is:

Ande Rasmussen
835 Martindale Falls
Martindale, TX 78655
AndeRasmussen@...
You can read my Bio at:
http://www.AndeRasmussen.com/

You can hear a few of my tunes at:
http://songramp.com/ande

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