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Dear IFS Readers,

How's your new year going so far?

I've spent the last 5 days being sick, I'm still coughing a lot.

I've got a few new songs and a couple cuts in the works.

Ande

How about the UT Longhorns winning the RoseBowl?
Did anyone watch the game?

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There's still time to sign up for the

Old Number 9 Eliza Gilkyson Workshop
if you can't do the workshop consider attending the
the Saturday night performance and campfire.
www.oldno9.org

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Anyone going going to steve Seskins workshop in Nashville
www.SteveSeskin.com

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SINGER SEARCHING FOR SONGS

Date: Jan/01/2006
By: Angela Johnson
E-mail: angiejoh@...

Subject: Singer looking for songs

Comment:
Hi, we are looking for songs for our daughter who plans to put an
independent album together later in the year. Jaimie has
a 'Charlotte Church/Haley Westenra' style voice. Classical,
Classical Crossover, Celtic, Religious and Slow Ballads are all ok.
You can listen to Jaimie's voice at
http://www.iamthenextidol.com/cgi/login.pl?jaimieleigh


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Here's websites for This years crop of Nashville Star Regional
Finalists.


Amy Adams - Not from AI 3

Angela McCall - www.isound.com/music/angela_mccall

Anthony Raines - www.myspace.com/anthonyraines

Ashley Grutter - www.ashleygrutter.com
Ashley Grutter - www.myspace.com/ashleygrutter

Bob Neace - www.pizzabob.com
Bob Neace - www.myspace.com/pizzabobneace

Brandi Jean Yagow - might be the BJY who is a St. Louis Rams
Cheerleader

Bryan Popp - No songs yet, web page coming

Carrie Furman - www.carriefurman.com
Carrie Furman - www.myspace.com/carriefurman

Carrie Hickman - www.carriehickman.com
Carrie Hickman - www.myspace.com/carriehickman

Casey Rivers - www.caseyrivers.com

Chris Young - www.chrisyoungcountry.com
Chris Young - www.myspace.com/chrisyoungmusic

Dean Miller - http://www.deanmiller.info

Eric Dove - www.ericdove.com
Eric Dove www.myspace.com/ericdove

Eric Neznik - www.ericneznik.com
Eric Neznik - www.myspace.com/ericneznik

Faith Drummond -

Gerald Lanier -

Haley Davis -

Jay Teter - www.jayteter.com

Jennifer Bennett -

Jennifer Dixon -

Jewels Hanson - www.jewelshanson.com

Josh Helms -

Justin Hatcher -

Karri Fedor - www.myspace.com/karri_beth

Kimberley Dawn -

Kristen McNamara - www.kristenmcnamara.com
Kristen McNamara -
http://home.comcast.net/~amuletmusic/pages/kristen.html

Kristen Stehr -

Lita Williams - www.litawilliams.com

Lori Ann Feeley -

Mary Sue Englund-Oleson - www.marysusanoleson.com

Matt Mason

Mike Rodgers - www.honkytonkhitman.com
Mike Rodgers - www.myspace.com/mikerodgershonkytonkhitman

Monique L - www.myspace.com/moniquechereelecompte

Neil Freestone - www.neilfreestone.com

Nicole Jamrose - http://www.nwilive.com/band_display.php?Band=Jamrose

Paul Crace - www.freewebs.com/paulcrace/

Phillip Buchanan -

Sage Keffer - www.sagekeffer.com

Sarah Jo Gray - www.sarahjogray.com

Shy Blakeman - www.whiskeyfever.com
www.shyblakeman.com
Shy Blakeman - www.myspace.com/shyblakeman

Stephen Liles - http://www.stephenliles.com/

Whitney Williams - http://www.whitneywilliamsmusic.com


Possibly Related News
Nicole Jamrose - http://www.midwestbeat.com/ezine/july2002/street.htm
Dean Miller - http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/miller_dean/artist.jhtml
Casey Rivers - http://www.insp.com/cats2005/performance.asp?
performance=80
Bryan Popp - http://www.riverstagesonline.com/nightlife/?
section=e&navid=290
Bryan Popp - pop cd from his past http://cdbaby.com/cd/bryanpopp

www.jaredashley.com

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Boston music college strikes new chord with bluegrass
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_3361165

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Creative Soul presents, "A Booking Seminar"
February 9th, 2006 in Franklin, TN (just south of Nashville)

Special Guest and Instructor: Dawn Jones, author of "The Booking
Workshop"

What do you need for your music ministry more than anything else?
Opportunities to minister!

At Creative Soul, we are specialists in creating great music and
products for you to reach a large audience successfully, but YOU have
to reach the audience, and you do THAT by getting out there.

So, how do you get out there?

We're planning a special, one-day event focused on how to get more
bookings for your music ministry. This will NOT be a day of lectures!
This will be roundtables, hands-on, personal application,
workshopping, learning, and above all teaching you to IMPLEMENT these
principles so you get more bookings IMMEDIATELY!

Here's what we'll be talking about:

A. 7 ways to get paid for your talent

1. What is your talent Value?
2. Should you have a concert fee?
3. Working with their budget & overcoming obstacles!
4. Love offering: what if there's more LOVE than offering?
5. Streams of Revenue-are you putting your eggs in one basket?
6. Royalties: can you earn them without a record deal?
7. Websites & EPK's: Making them work for you!

B. Successful BookingT for Soloists, Speakers & Bands

* 5-mistakes artists make in getting gigs, and how to avoid them!

1. Who is going to book you?
2. What are You Booking?
3. It's not about Me-Discovering their needs
4. First Impressions-what they hear is what they expect!
5. Attitude: What's Not Being Said is Being Heard

* Are you talking people into or out of booking your ministry?
* Why should they book you? Identifying what makes you unique.

C. Booking Strategies: How to get the gig NOW!

* THE PHONE: How to have a conversation rather than a "sales pitch"
* Contacting the right person: Stop getting the run around
* How to get people to call you back not put you off!
* Setting a Date: It's easier than you might think

We'll also have artists there who are having REAL success, and will
tell you their stories on how they get their schedule packed with
dates.

To top it off, we're having it the day BEFORE the GMA Academy in
Nashville, a fantastic two-day event if you haven't been. You can
find
more details on that at www.gospelmusic.org

This will be a limited-seating event, so enroll early at
www.CreativeSoulOnline.com/BookingSeminar

The fee is only $50 until January 13th and $75 after that until the
conference, but we will have to close the registration at a certain
number to keep the personal attention atmosphere we want for this.

EXTRAS:

1. We have three days (Mon-Wed) mavailable that week for
consultation,
writing/arranging, or studio work with Creative Soul if you want to
package a trip to include other work. These will be gone VERY soon.

2. We'd like to offer one artists who is seeking to begin work with
Creative Soul the opportunity to combine our "Christian Artist
Workshop" with the Booking Seminar, and the GMA Academy. Producer
Eric
Copeland would be your guide through the GMA Academy, steering you to
the right classes for you that weekend.

Please email us here for any information on any of this if you have
questions!

Thanks and we hope to see you soon.

EC

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Write On,
Ande