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ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES!
ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and America SCORES have teamed up for a fifth year to present the national songwriting mentorship program, ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES. The program was established in 2006 to create collaboration between songwriters and America SCORES poet-athletes utilizing songwriting and music as an engaging and inspiring way for poet-athletes to express themselves.
As part of the program, ASCAP selects its talented member musicians from a variety of musical genres to teach songwriting workshops during America SCORES after-school poetry workshops. While working with these artists America SCORES poet-athletes gain the confidence to take their poetry and perform them as songs. The students also learn about the importance of labeling their own creative work with the copyright symbol, year and their name just as they would see on any published, professional creative work. By the end of three sessions, the ASCAP member musician will have co-written and recorded a song with the America SCORES poet-athletes. The ASCAP Foundation, a public charity dedicated to supporting music education and talent development programs, funds the program.
In 2010, the program was taken to new heights with the first ever commercial release of a CD with songs written during the ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES. This CD will feature five tracks written and recorded by The Great Unknown and America SCORES poet-athletes. The CD is set to release July 19, 2011 and all of the proceeds from this name-your-own-price CD will go support ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES. To showcase this incredible collaboration, The Great Unknown performed of one of the featured songs live at America Scores’ 2011 National Poetry SLAM! To download a free track from the EP click on the link below.
www.TheGreatUnknownmusic.com/FreeDownload
To read the complete press release, please click here
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