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Dear Antje fans,

ANTJE'S "PEARLS" TAKES 5TH PRIZE OUT OF 800 ENTRANTS IN THE MOUNTAIN STAGE
NEW SONG FESTIVAL!

http://www.newsongfestival.com/contest/

Mountain Stage WV

The top five songs were --

1. Freddy Bradburn and Chelsea Richardson won the Grand Prize in the 2004
Mountain Stage NewSong Performing Songwriter contest for their tune
"Cartoonland," which also won Best Song in the contest.

Vikki Genfan of Fairview, N.J., took 2nd place with "Eleanor." Carmella
Scott of Los Angeles, placed 3rd with "Ole Country Girl." Amy Fairchild of
Wakefield, Mass., took 4th with "Mr. Heart." And Antje Duvekot of Brooklyn,
N.Y., came
in 5th with "Pearls."

The show will be broadcast on Mountain Stage the first or second week of
October.

Congratulations to Antje!

Peace,
Spang
*****
Here is the full Mountain Stage press release--

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of 2004 MOUNTAIN STAGE NEWSONG CONTEST ANNOUNCED

Charles Town, WV_ Co-writers Freddy Bradburn and Chelsea Richardson won the
Grand Prize in the 2004 Mountain Stage NewSong Performing Songwriter
contest for their tune "Cartoonland," which also won Best Song in the
contest. "I am speechless. We never expected to win and it is a great
honor. I am proud of Chelsea - we had no idea where our collaborations
would go," said Bradburn.

Winners of the contest, sponsored by Performing Songwriter magazine, were
announced Saturday, Aug. 21, on the main stage of the NewSong Festival,
held on the grounds of the historic Claymont Court estate, near Charles
Town, West
Virginia, from Aug. 20 to 22. More than 800 performing songwriters entered
the contest from around the country and from several foreign countries.

Vikki Genfan of Fairview, N.J., took 2nd place with "Eleanor." Carmella
Scott of Los Angeles, placed 3rd with "Ole Country Girl." Amy Fairchild of
Wakefield, Mass., took 4th with "Mr. Heart." And Antje Duvekot of Brooklyn,
N.Y., came
in 5th with "Pearls."

"There was an enormous pool of talent in our contest this year," said
Mountain Stage NewSong Festival Director Gar Ragland. "The NewSong contest
has proven highly effective in identifying talented, emerging artists from
an array of
genres."

The finals of this year's contest were judged by such notables as Billy
Zero, host of XM Satellite Radio's "Unsigned" program; Larry Groce, host of
the Mountain Stage program; Chris Sampson and Chris Tetzeli of ATO Records;
producer
Ben Wisch; ASCAP Membership Representative Dan Keen; and NewSong headline
acts Susan Werner and Darrell Scott.

Keen described "Cartoonland" as emotionally stunning. "The song starts with
a little girl watching TV. In the 2nd verse, her parents are fighting in
the next room and the song takes a serious and gripping turn. They captured
the detachment a child would have to embrace to survive parents violently
fighting. It was very chilling to me."

Darrell Scott, a multiple-Grammy nominated songwriter for performers who
range from the Dixie Chicks to Keb' Mo, said the presentation added to its
power.

"The song was well written from the point of view of a child. By having a
young girl perform the song was killer juxtaposition. The song would not be
the same sung by an adult. The song became more believable."

Bradburn is a music educator in Marion, N.C., and Richardson is an 8th
grade student. Richardson is a long-time guitar and piano student of
Bradburn, and helps him with school programs on storytelling and song
creation. They met
when she was in 4th grade during a school program on songwriting. They
entered the winning tune in the NewSong Contest just to see what would
happen, said Bradburn. "If we won, we could be on Mountain Stage-- as if
that could actually happen, ha-ha."

It did happen. They won $500 and an appearance on a festival-ending
performance of "Mountain Stage." They performed "Cartoonland" at the show
on August 22
at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, sharing the stage
with headline acts Junior Brown, the
Darol Anger Fiddle Ensemble, and performing songwriters Lisa Loeb, Ellis
Paul and Devon Sproule.

Now in its 21st year, "Mountain Stage" is heard on more than 200 radio and
TVstations worldwide and soon will be broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. The
Mountain Stage NewSong show will be broadcast on radio in the first or second
week of October.

For more details on this year's NewSong Festival, the date of the NewSong
broadcast and other festival and contest news, visit www.newsongfestival.com.

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