Acoustic Songbird

2006-03-13T12:27:00.000-05:00

NEW ARTISTS
We have added some new tunes to songbird radio.
Including new works by
JULIE NEUMARK
Great EP of Julies new music..........We are playing them all on this one.
JEN FOSTER
Jen Fosters folks down in Nashville sent us her new Cd. The Underdogs. Great Stuff!
Thanks guys/gals..... Ya"ll are always so on the ball, Jen is lucky to have such a great team.

CLARELYNN ROSE
New Music
KATE MOODY
New Music

Acoustic Songbird Radio - all women all the time.............

2006-01-18T18:39:00.000-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR,
We are back with new artists, and a new program . More than four hours of new music. It's really been crazy around here lately. We keep getting more and more requests for air play, and half of that comes from men!....Go figure. As if they don't already have a big enough chunk of the market.
As I have said before...Do your homework. It will save you both time and money. A few months back I received a big package in the mail. Inside were several cd's from a gospel record label, filled with gospel cd's by male gospel singers....
We neither play gospel music or music by men. All of that money wasted...

But when something like that happens, I usually gather up all of the cd's and such and donate them to a needy cause, or pass them out to friends that I think might enjoy them.
It would be a shame to just toss them and waste someones good efforts, even if they are not so inclinded to be more vigilant about their marketing strategy.

I still have a stack of new music to listen to., As well as run some things through the PJ test. I have found that PJ is more picky than I am........
Who would have ever thunk it, certainly not me. I thought I was the resident music snob. But anyway, that's the way it goes.

New Stuff
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Sunday's 8:00pm till 11:00pm
World, New Age, Classical, Opera, Composers, Instrumental...
Repeats on Wednesday Nights:
see radio schedule for all of the programing details.

New Artists:
Dao Strom
Jess Yoakum
Pippa Drysdale
Hannah Bingham
Tret Fure
Suzanne Ciani
Clarelynn Rose
Shweta Jhaveri
Anna Veleva
and more.............

NEWS
Congratulations to Lauren Sheehan, for all the great reviews and buzz about her new release
Two Wings
reprinted - - Album of the Year finalist, Independent Music Awards
- #1, Folk DJ airplay chart, October 2005
- #7, Freeform American Roots airplay chart, December 2005
- #19, Roots Blues airplay chart. October, 2005

Congratulations to -
Suzanne Ciani - NEWS - Winter 2005
SUZANNE CIANI Silver Ship
WINS BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
5th Annual Independent Music Awards®
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Thanks to everyone who continues to support our little project. To the artists, the fans and spirit of creativity around the world.

Peace, Zz

2005-12-03T10:57:00.000-05:00

SONGBIRD DECEMBER ARTIST
*PEACE*
*LOVE*
*UNDERSTANDING*

We are taking the month of December to update our radio station. We will be adding our new Saturday and Sunday programming. With shows including great women artists in the Classical, International New Age, Opera, and Experimental genre's. All acoustic based music from some of the best women in the business.
We will be back in January with the monthly spotlight, and the broadcast on Tuesdays. We have around twelve hours of new programming to organize for the new weekend broadcast's. We are very excited to be taking this new step in a different direction.
Our aim is to make AcoustiNation/songbird Radio, the best and most comprehensive station on the web, for acoustic based women performing artists, songwriter/composers.

In the meantime enjoy the new additions of Sweetbird, Lauren Sheehan, Ann Heaton and Barbara Martin.

2005-11-09T16:38:00.000-05:00

Where to buy the music that you hear on acoustic songbird. We are getting an increasing amount of inquiry about the artists we feature on songbird radio. To make it easier for you to purchase this music you can do a google search of the artist, or follow one of our affilate links below.

Acoustic Songbird Affiliates. Most of the artists that we feature on songbird radio have music available as downloads at ITunes and cds at Cd Baby.

For ITunes, open the itunes store window and pull down the search menu, Do a "Power Search" of the artists name and all of thier works will come up in the window.
For Cd Baby, type the artists name in the search box, you will be directed to their cd page or pages.

This link will take you to the itunes home page. Use the search box to find what you are looking for.
I Tunes Gift Certificates are also nice. Know someone with an ipod...Problem solved.
iTunes & iTunes gift certificates

Cd Baby, sells cd's by independent artists. Some of our radio artists have their cd's for sale at the Cd Baby website.
Cd Baby Click Here

Hope this helps.
Also keep in mind that we can not give out artists email addresses or what we feel is confidential information.

Thank You, for supporting Acoustic Songbird
Zz, Songbird Radio

2005-10-30T08:35:00.000-05:00

November, Acoustic Songbird News

Women of The World
Is a new broadcast that we are working on for songbird radio. Continuing in our dedication to acoustic female performing songwriters.
Set to begin broadcasting within the next few weeks. Women of The World is a program that focus' attention on New Age, World and Classical Music.
The new program will air on AcoustiNation - Songbird Radio. Saturdays from 1 to 4pm (est) and again on Wednesday Evening from 9 to 12 pm, (est).
Our focus of course will be acoustic based music. This will run the gamut from piano, violin, guitars, percussion, and a number of world instruments, extraordinary voices and artistic vision.
As with our regular broadcast where we feature jazz divas from the past. We will also be featuring some of the most popular Classical and Opera performers on the broadcast. Afterall classical music and opera are acoustic music. Some would say the finest acoustic music.

So to kick things off we are featuring one of our new artists as the November spotlight artist.

Songbird Spotlight Artist
Tuesday Nights at 8:00pm (est)
Acoustic Songbird Radio on Live 365
The Spotlight artist broadcast will repeat each week at the same time.
We feature a new artist each month.

NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT ARTIST - TINA MALIA
For our Tuesday Night broadcast we will be featuring the music of Tina Malia. from her debut cd " Shores of Avalon" a rich and sensuous collection of music that bridges the gap between World, New Age and Popular music.

Discography for Tina Malia

Shores of Avalon
The debut recording of vocalist/ songwriter, Tina Malia. In this recording she draws her inspiration from her roots in American folk music, and combines is with ancient Celtic modalities, percussion from the Middle East, and hauntingly beautiful tones from India and around the world. Shores of Avalon features Tina's captivating vocals accompanied by guitar, piano, violin, 12 string guitar, cello, mandicello, hammer dulcimer, and other exotic instrumentation such as Sarangi, Nickleharpa, Oud, Tabla, Frame Drum, Dumbek and more.
Original songs written by Tina express the timelessness of inspiration, hope, celebration, and the beautiful longing for the divine. Combined with its rich instrumentation from around the world, Shores of Avalon has an innovative sound that has the ability to deeply touch its listeners.

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Jaya Bhagavan
For centuries people have been chanting the names of the divine in order to uplift the spirit and bring peace to the mind. Now we have begun to feel their presence here in the West, and receive the blessings of their beauty. Singers/ instrumentalists, Tina Malia and Shimshai, bring their angelic vocals and acoustic instruments to these ancient melodies and mantras. Including guitars, 12 string, percussion from Africa and the Middle East, dulcimer, sitara, kalimba and more. With honored guests Jai Uttal on vocals and dotar, Omar Faruk Tekbilek on vocals, ney and baglama saz, and Yair Dalal on violin and oud.

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Women Helping Women
Over the past month we have added a selection of links to our website at acousticsongbird.com, that places attention on womens causes and general need around the country and the world, including breast cancer awareness, the hurricane relief groups and the one campaign.
We are working on a special outreach links page that will feature links to important, organizations who are working for the betterment of women around the world, as well as global and humanitarian issues.
If you know of a good organization doing good works, someone that you work with or support drop us an email.

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More Women In Music News
Women are 50% of the population. But when it comes to the gravy, women rarely see 50% of anything. Over the past few months I have been paying direct attention to this in the music press. Particularly publications that feature articles on performing songwriters, acoustic artists, folk, americana and singer songwriters. I choose this group because these are the types of magazines I subscribe to, the kind of music that I most often write and perform myself. Some magazines have full page ads for new releases by record labels. Some have reviews, and one has a DIY review section. Overwhelmingly women are underrepresented. I mean, come on folks, give the girls a break. At least give us a 50/50 on the reviews.
It seems that all too often if a woman is featured on a cover or given a two or three page story, the rest of that particular issue goes for the most part, to men and their music.
Don't get me wrong I love men, I think that they are great, talented and fit for praise. But I also think that women are equally deserving.
So I suggest the next time you pick up a magazine and see a mere sprinkling of women artists represented, that you contact the publication and request more in depth reporting on women artists.
Just think about it. If women were represented fairly in the music press, more great women would be receiving notice.
And I am not talking about the yearly crop of teenageish pop singers that the media tries to cram down everyone's throat, and the record companies pay insane amounts of money to have played on every pop radio station in the country. I am talking about professional women. Women who can actually play an instrument, write their own music, and perform that music, fully clothed and without simulating sex on stage, or having their voice tweaked with a vocal pitch correction device, or lip synched to backing music.
I know that the serious women artists are professional in promoting their work. I know this because that is the relationship that I have with them.
When I receive press kits in the mail from women artists, for our songbird radio broadcast. they are well put together and professionally presented.
Besides the people that we contact directly, we get an overwhelming response from artists around the world inquiring about the broadcast, and although we can't play everything, and some things don't fit our format. It is clear to me that serious women artists are getting out their and promoting their work.
Having said that, it would be silly to believe that these same women are not submitting to music publications, or that their representatives are not doing all they can to get these ladies more recognition and exposure, via. the printed word.
Just for reference I have thumbed to four full page advertisements for cd releases by record labels. On one there are ten cds, three of them are women. Another has ten with two women artists. another has a big flashy ad with three new releases, all men. And last but not least another has seven releases, all men.
Some would say that this is not an indicator, but I would say that I have been making a note to myself to check these things out on a regular basis, and it is always the same. Women are underrepresented.
So - again, I suggest that if you are a serious female performing artist and you are not getting your fair share of the press. Speak up. Nothing will happen if people don't speak up.
If you have a favorite magazine, and find that they are underrepresenting women, write them a letter.
It's like anything else. If the people of America were to stand up and support the things that they are really concerned about, we would see policy change overnight.
Zz..................

2005-10-02T08:54:00.000-04:00

October, Featured Artist - Kristina Stykos

Kristina Stykos - In The Earth's Fading Light
This album combines Kristina's eclectic talents; as a celtic guitar stylist, songwriter and dig-in traditional roots musician. She has gathered friends to make a home-studio recording that is full of both grit and passion, and beauty and grace. Mostly it's just honest. The song topics cover torn apart relations, spiritual alienation, and inspired reconnection with the core of living.
Songbird Editorial Note: If they gave out Grammys for genuine honesty, Kristina Stykos, "In the Earth's Fading Light" would win hands down. Listening to Kristina Stykos' music is a sensually tactile experience. From the unpretentious nature of her singing, to the starkness and honesty in her lyrics; One is reminded of a time long gone, where only a glimmer of light filters through the forest, and a hint of an ancient flute carries down the valley to the sacred layered ground.
If you have the time visit Kristinas website, read about her life and music. It is a wonderful story, of evolution and discovery.

Visit Kristina's Website
Album available online at Cd Baby

Songbird Independent Artist Showcase
Featuring the music of some of the best in Independent female singer/songwriters.
Tuesday Evening: October 11th - The music of Kristina Stykos, 8:00pm. Repeats the following Staurday afternoon at 4:00pm

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New Music on Songbird Radio
Eliza Gilkyson - album - Hard Times In Babylon
The Wailin' Jenny's - album - 40 Days
Gillian Welch - album - Soul Journey
Deborah Crooks - album - 5 Acres
Audrey Auld Mezera - album - Texas
Kasey Chambers - album - Wayward Angel
Lisa OKane - album - Piece of Mind
Tracy Chapman - album - Where You Live
Rickie Lee Jones - album - The Duchess of Coolsville
Shelby Lynne - album - Suit Yourself
Dolly Parton - album - The Grass Is Blue
Patty Larkin - album - Red=Luck
Rhonda Vincent - album - Ragin Live
Hailey Wojcik - Jealous Sees
Zena Allen - Service of Song
Christine Havrilla - Ruby Red
and many more...............we add new artists everyday

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The Songbird Radio standard playlist now has over 9 hours of streaming audio. Listen free 24/7....or purchase a VIP subscription to the Live 365 Network and listen without commercial interruptions.
New music, and playlist are updated weekly.

Upcoming - A new Saturday afternoon program from 1 to 4 in the afternoon.
Two more playlists - In the works now. Classic Women Artists from the past, like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, etc....
An all indie playlist, featuring the best of the indie women artists we play, including new and emerging artists.

If you are a fan of Songbird Radio - please consider purchasing a preferred membership. You will be able to listen commercial free (we do not insert any chatter into our playlists) and hear all of our special broadcasts like the Independent Artist Showcase, without all those pesky interruptions.

FYI - Music News Tid Bits
Like A Natural Woman, Eliza Gilkyson, No Depression Magazine, Current Issue - Article
Patty Loveless, New Release, Dreamin' My Dreams, Release Date September 13
Robinella, New Release, Solstice For The Lonely, Release Date November 1