Watch via Facebook Live on NewSong Music's page 2016 NewSong Music grand prize winner Wilder Adkins’ songwriting gleans as much from the earthy poetry of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver as it does from the works of folk luminaries Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn. He’s a true… (read more)
January 25th, 2017Rachael Kilgour to release third album 'Rabbit in the Road' March 3 on NewSong Recordings Rachael Kilgour is a Minnesota-based songwriter and performing artist whose sincere, lyric-driven work has been called both brave and humane. The 2015 grand prize winner of the international NewSong Music… (read more)
January 17th, 20172016 NewSong grand prize winner Wilder Adkins releases peace anthem "Side By Side" on MLK Jr. Day"This is a song about the city of Birmingham, Alabama and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the 1960s," says Adkins, a Birmingham resident himself. "It is… (read more)
January 16th, 2017Introducing the 2016 NewSong Grand Prize Winner: Wilder AdkinsCongratulations to Wilder Adkins, this year's grand prize winner of the 15th Annual NewSong Music Showcase and Competition. Adkins took top honors on Saturday night at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium in New York City. Adkin’s songwriting… (read more)
December 13th, 2016Erik PhilbrookASCAP’s VP and Creative DirectorErik Philbrook serves as ASCAP’s VP and Creative Director. In addition to writing editorial, producing video and managing content for ASCAP’s various media channels, he has interviewed and written about many of today’s leading songwriters and composers from across the… (read more)
December 9th, 2016MEERA DUGAL2016 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting CompetitionElysa Marden is a curator and producer based in NYC. She is currently the Co-Director of Art Brookfield, a national public arts program that produces, commissions, and presents music, dance, film, visual art and spoken word year-round and… (read more)
December 9th, 2016MEERA DUGAL2016 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting CompetitionMeera Dugal is the Programming Manager for the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. The Atrium is home to over 100 free, extremely eclectic performances a year that are curated with the aim to reflect the diversity present in… (read more)
December 9th, 2016Three Questions with Jomo Edwards (of Jomo & The Possum Posse)Jomo Edwards is a roots-loving, Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is perhaps best known for his viral video series, “Guy On A Buffalo,” in which he wrote and overdubbed a new soundtrack for the… (read more)
December 6th, 2016Three Questions With Wilder AdkinsWilder Adkins, a Birmingham, Alabama-based folk musician, discovered that he was a NewSong finalist at a friend’s house in Cambridge, England. “I had just played a show at a 900-year-old church when I heard,” says Adkins. “So, suffice to say, it… (read more)
December 6th, 2016Follow 2016 NewSong Music finalist Wilder Adkins as they take over the official NewSong Music Instagram account. Good day, my name is Wilder Adkins and I'm a #NewSongMusic finalist from Birmingham, AL doing an Instagram takeover today. Thanks for joining me. Follow along for a fascinating… (read more)
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