I am currently enjoying a beautiful day off from school. Nashville teachers got off of school for voting day. Sweet! I had a writing session lined up at Demolition Music Pub tonight but it looks like we're postponing until tomorrow. So technically, I have off the entire day. It's been great. Slept in a little, caught up on paying bills, took the dog for a nice long walk, and did a TON of networking! Between yesterday morning and today, I did about a week's worth of emailing. It feels good to be productive.
One of the biggest things I did this morning was email the head of A&R at Universal Music Nashville, Joe Fisher and ask for a meeting. Joe wrote back to me about a song I pitched for Billy Currington a while ago asking if I had any more material. At the time, I sent him what I had. Now, I have a lot more in the catalog so I figured I'd ask for a meeting. We shall see.
I reached out to long time family friend and successful NY songwriter, Dana Parish to keep in touch and send an update. I also asked for some useful advice on a new song. I wrote a song with Bill Gue called, "When I Am In Your Arms". It's a Popera song (Pop/Opera) in the style of Josh Groban. I love how the song turned out, however I am very unfamiliar with the players in that market so I'm getting advice and ideas about pitching. Dana has written for adult contemporary artists such as Celine Dion so I was thinking she might have some ideas. If you've never heard Dana's music check her out...she's awesome! http://www.danaparish.com/
I made a connection with an LA publisher, Katie Jelen from Secret Road Publishing, through one of my co-writer's Matt Santry. Secret Road is a publisher, as well as management company who's biggest client is Ingrid Michaelson.
Lastly, I pitched "When I Am In Your Arms" to Mascioli Entertainment in consideration for their artists.
Those are the highlights. More to come this week!
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