Songwriter Showcase
Our alternate stage for intimate performances by local, regional, and national singer/songwriters with their own story to tell. Special thanks to one of our best local songwriters, Daniel Boling for bringing together this collection of colleagues for the songwriter's showcase.
Saturday
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Robyn Mackenzie | Robyn Mackenzie started her musical career at the age of 4, when she began taking violin lessons. She learned the piano soon after that, and picked up the guitar and mandolin a few years later. She has been writing since the age of 13. She currently plays fiddle and keys with the group Southwest Wind and teaches violin and piano in the Albuquerque/East Mountain area. |
| 12:00 PM | Scott Barker | Scott's debut record, This Is Me, is the story of a journey, a collection of marvelous songs that testify to the power of faith, and dreams that live on. They are woven from the cords of Scott's life and experience-as a husband, son, father of two daughters, military officer, best friend, and performer. Scott writes story songs, sweet songs, funny songs, and hurting songs, but most of all he writes real songs. |
| 1:00 PM | Songwriting Workshop | Jim Terrell and Scott Barker presents an audience participation workshop on the craft of songwriting. You have the inspiration and the idea. This workshop will provide you with some of the tools needed to take that inspiration, and craft lyrics that make the listener feel the story, the emotions and the meaning. Intended for novice to intermediate songwriters, but something for everyone interested in the craft of songwriting. |
| 2:00 PM | Jim Terrell | Singer songwriter Jim Terrell is a student of the songwriting craft. Highly influenced by his love for country music, his writing blends the technical with the creative. His songs range from upbeat to ballad, funny to sad, and most places in between. There's something for everyone. |
| 3:00 PM | Joe Black | Joe Black has served as Rabbi of Congregation Albert for the past 14 years. He also is a nationaly known singer-songwriter who primarily performs his original music for Jewish communities around the country. He has recorded 5 CD's of original music. He also was a finalist in the Albuquerque Songwriter competition last year and has developed a following in local songwriting circles. This will be Joe's last performance in New Mexico for a while since he will be moving to Denver July 1st. |
| 4:00 PM | Bill Ward | A powerful performer who pulls the emotions out his audience with the skill of a surgeon. |
| 5:00 PM | Terry Clements | Singer/songwriter and guitarist Terry Clements delights audiences with his emotional images of people and places. He is the 2008 winner of the Albuquerque Songwriter's Contest in the Americana category with his song, "Changing of the Guard". His work is performed and has been recorded by other artists and Terry has been featured in national programs and celebrations. Terry has released two CDs, "Grizzly In the Zoo" and "Apache Plume". He is currently working on his next project that will include his latest songs and those from his collection on love, sex, romance and the coming of age. |
| 6:00 PM | Jaime Michaels | As Jaime's career has taken him full circle from 60's singer songwriter, through his time spent as lead vocalist for southern cult rockers The Truly Dangerous Swamp Band, and back to his folk roots, Jaime has always remained true to one thing--the song. "Energetic and fun, Jaime capivated us with his guitar work and stage presence, with lyrics both self-depracating and from the heart. He made an instant connection with the audience--a real delight!" Muse-ical House Concert-Dallas,TX |
| 7:00 PM | Summerhays, Hawley, and Reardon | Becky Reardon is a singer/songmaker from Taos whose career has led from singing on the Charlie Brown TV specials in the 70s and 80s, to composing rounds and songs about the cycles of nature in and around us. She teaches and performs widely, and her songs are sung by chorales and singing circles nationwide and in the British Isles. A review of her latest album "Inside the Outside" will appear in New Mexico Magazine in July, 2010. Julie Hawley is a member of the Santa Fe High Desert Harp Ensemble, directed by Linda Larkin. She plays a Celtic-style lever harp, and performs in Northern New Mexico. Julie is also a founding member of the Taos Threshold Choir, which is comprised of all women singers who sing in small groups for hospice patients. (The Threshold Choir movememt was founded by Kate Munger of California. For information: http://www.thresholdchoir.org.) Joanie Summerhays is a founding member of the Albuquerque-based women's Balkan Chorus, Svirka, which performed in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona for 27 years. She also sang and performed with the Earth Angels Trio for about 20 years. |
| 8:00 PM | Greggory Stockert | Greggory Stockert got his start playing every Tuesday night, at the age of fifteen, in a coffee house in Portland, Oregon called The Folksinger's where a lot of great folk singers played at the time including Doc Watson, Jessie Fuller, Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. He played coffee houses in Greenwich Village and the Haight Ashbury as a teenager in the tumultuous 60's, played accordion with The Holy Modal Rounders and the Clamtones in the 70s and 80s as well as fronting his own band throughout the 90s. True to his traditional folksinger roots Greggory has become a timeless tunesmith in his own right. He plays a gorgeous, quite weathered, 1962 Gibson J45 guitar and a 100 year old British Windsor 5 string banjo in a style he calls, "Clawgrass" somewhere between Clawhammer and Bluegrass. He writes from a unique perspective and personal experience. He heard Nashville Skyline for the first time in Bob Dylan's living room. |