2018 NewSong Music Competition Grand Prize Winner, Mel Bryant and the Mercy Makers, will perform at the 2019 Sundance ASCAP Music Café on Thursday Jan. 31 and Friday Feb. 1. All are invited to watch the live webcast of the performance. Both shows start promptly… (read more)
January 21st, 2019NewSong is proud to announce our first ever "NewSong in Nashville" performance showcase on March 7 at The Listening Room Cafe in Nashville. Four past finalists from the LEAF Festival Competition will reunite for a night of songwriting and performances. Performers include Beth Snapp, who… (read more)
January 18th, 2019Happy New Year everyone! After a somewhat relaxing holiday break, we're rested up and super excited to help keep you up-to-date on all the great shows, releases and collaborations that are in store this year for the ever-growing and talented community of NewSong artists. These performing songwriters… (read more)
January 14th, 2019MEL BRYANT WINS THE 17TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL NEWSONG MUSIC PERFORMANCE & SONGWRITING COMPETITION AS GRAND PRIZE WINNER, BRYANT RECEIVES AN EP RECORDING PROJECT AT ECHO MOUNTAIN RECORDING STUDIOS, RELEASED ON THE NEWSONG RECORDINGS LABEL, A PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE AT 2019 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL’S ESTEEMED ASCAP… (read more)
December 19th, 2018NewSong is pleased to introduce 2018 NewSong judge Diana Ezerins, Director of Public Programs at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in the Performing Arts for Everyone / Community Programming department. Ezerins oversees the curation of several festivals and Millennium… (read more)
December 12th, 2018We love to keep up with our past NewSong Music Contest finalists and winners, and, over the years, we have amassed a busy and hardworking group of musicians we admire. NewSong songwriters live and perform across the continent and beyond, their work spans multiple genres,… (read more)
December 10th, 2018From the artist's bio: Boston singer-songwriter Alice Howe is "at once of the moment and timeless, personal and universal" (Mark Walton, Americana UK). Her pure, distilled sound reflects a musical sensibility rooted in '60s folk and '70s Southern California songwriters. ... 2017 was the year that… (read more)
December 10th, 2018NewSong Music is pleased to announce 2016 grand prize winner Wilder Adkins will be our guest performer at this year's NewSong Music Competition at Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC on Saturday Dec. 15. Wilder Adkins’ songwriting gleans as much from the earthy poetry of Wendell… (read more)
December 8th, 2018No Depression's annual year-end readers poll is now open for voting, and this year's list includes a handful of albums from some of our favorite NewSong artists, past and present, with two releases from our own NewSong Recordings label: Rough & Ready Heart from BLUE YONDER:… (read more)
December 8th, 2018From the artist's bio: Alex Wong’s curiosity has a varied appetite, and he’s always fed it well. A steady diet of projects as artist, producer, composer, and fittingly, as chef, has taught him that the connections between seemingly separate disciplines can be a source of inspiration… (read more)
December 7th, 2018
