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Derrik Jordan Wins International Songwriting Award Well known southern Vermont musician, Derrik Jordan, has won 2nd place in the USA Songwriting Competition, known as the world's leading international songwriting competition. His song, "Speak Through Me," co-written with Stephanie Lewis and Lorraine Ferro won 1st place in the Gospel category and 2nd place overall out of 32,500 songs considered. The song, from his first CD, "Expecting A Miracle," will be featured on a compilation CD put out by the organization and sent out to radio stations. It will be played on NPR's popular show Acoustic Cafe which has 1,000,000 listeners and also on XM radio. The prize awarded to Jordan and his co-writers totals $9000 in cash and merchandise. You can see the other winners and read more about the USA Songwriting Competition at http://www.songwriting.net. "I'm delighted and deeply honored to have placed second in such a large song contest," says Jordan. "I've always felt that 'Speak Through Me' was a very special song. Hopefully this win will help my songs reach a wider audience and perhaps I'll even get some popular recording artists to record some of them, which is every songwriter's dream. I've been writing for 35 years but have never entered a song contest before this one. Maybe I should enter another one...." You can hear Jordan's song "Speak Through Me," and others at his website http://www.derrikjordan.com. His CDs are available in stores locally, at his website and also online at Amazon.com and http://www.CDBABY.com ------------------
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Congrats Derrik. You were the guy with the purple shirt and the violin at the Brattleboro stop on the roadtrip, right? Stop in here a little more often. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.justplainfolks.org/ubb/smile.gif) ------------------ Marty my new home It may be cold out but you heart doesn't need to be. Make somebody smile today.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Marty Helly: Congrats Derrik.
You were the guy with the purple shirt and the violin at the Brattleboro stop on the roadtrip, right?
Stop in here a little more often.
Hey Marty,
yeah it sounds like me. I do play the electric violin and also have a purple shirt and live near Brattleboro. I'm the Brattleboro JPF coordinator. Where do you live? -Derrik
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I'm in Northampton and the Western Mass coordinator. Poke around this forum a little and you'll find out a little more about me. Inquiring minds want to know - what was included in the $9,000 in merchandise? ------------------ Marty my new home It may be cold out but you heart doesn't need to be. Make somebody smile today. [This message has been edited by Marty Helly (edited 01-03-2005).]
Marty my home Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again!
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I co-wrote the song with two other great writers so we are sharing with me the spoils of victory. They are giving us an Ibanez guitar, Steinberg software, two nice Audio Technica mics, guitar strings, gift certificate to Sam Ash, tip sheet, tuners and some other little stuff. The cash is about $2700 out of the $9000 for the 2nd place win (and 1st place in Gospel). Not bad. Not bad at all. Most important to me is the promotion that they are going to be doing for my song and since it is a cut from my CD, it's also an artist promotion for me. It's really a cool thing and it's nice to get this recognition after writing songs for 35 years. Hopefully I'll get a major artist to cut the song and doors will start to open. Derrik Jordan http://www.derrikjordan.com ~Positive pop and globally-concious soul~
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Way to go, Derrik! Great to see someone with talent making a mark in a competition like this one... Cheers, GMG +++++ Guy-Michael Grande Route Five Records www.cdbaby.com/guymichael2
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Hey Guy,
Nice to hear from you. What have you been up to lately? Are you still doing the showcase at the Horse? What's new in Western MA? -Derrik Jordan
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