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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