SAW Notes

Diana Quinn recorded a zoom interview with Tony Denikos about his Mid-Atlantic Song Contest winning songs. Songwriters' Association of Washington is celebrating our MASC winners with these conversations. Videos for Gravity Wins and Lil' Chrome Fish are included. Tony's website is https://www.tonydenikos.com/

SAW got to check in with Heather Lloyd of ilyAIMY for a conversation about her Gold prize winning song about surviving the year of isolation. Her upbeat take was a refreshing jolt and the story of how she came to write a happy song about such a difficult year is revealed in the talk we had. Her inventive and delightful video of this song is going to be premiered this Valentine's Day at noon. It is a love song to the domestic pursuits and the many hats a woman wears. Watch the interview and My Kinda Quarantiner video below and visit Heather's website. 

SAW’s wunderkind of video Steve Pendlebury got a chance to talk to one of our local perennially prolific young songwriters, Teghan Devon. Teghan’s song is featured on MTV's Ghosted: Love Gone Missing on Monday. The Mid-Atlantic Song Contest is proud of our association with her. See all the winners of this Year’s MASC at saw.org. 

Jimmy Stewart won the instrumental gold in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest this year and last. We got to visit with him to talk about his music, his life and his gear. Listen to his winning song and all the others at saw.org. Find out more about Jimmy on his website. Watch the interview below and video to Lemoyne.

Jody Marshall and Carey Creed surprised Jody's mom Jessie for her 99th (!) birthday by recording a song she (Jessie) wrote about her memories of living with her grandparents in rural NC in the early 30s). Jay Keating and I talked with Jody about what inspired her mom, what it was like to grow up in a musical family, & her own musical career as a hammered dulcimer player and teacher. You can listen to Wait for Me, My Polly (at the bottom of the page) and find out more about Jody on her website. 

Phillip Beatty let us stop by (virtually) and visit him at his home outside of Frederick, to talk about his music and what writing with partner Allen Kave is like. We are trying to create an online picture of Mid-Atlantic Song Contest participants and how they help create our local music scene. Check out all the MASC winners on the contest page.

Mike Glick and his talented son, Aleksi were each recognized in this year’s Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. We talked with them about their generational music family and got some insight into the sync licensing business with Ron Goad, Kelly Diamond and Jay Keating.

We are starting a new video series called MASC Stories: Songwriter Conversations to celebrate our MASC award winners and those that participated in the contest this year. Our hope is that this years' online celebrations will be an engaging way for you to get to know some of your fellow songwriters, learn about why and how they write, and get to hear/see some great songs and videos. 

Ron Goad led an interview with Roderick Deacey who won Mid-Atlantic Song Contest’s Gold in the Lyrics Only Category.