Lake Montgomery wins Mooie Noten Finals 2009!

I'm really happy and proud of Lake Montgomery. She had it coming. More info here.

So much happening in the scene at the moment

It's going to be a hot summer for the ASG this year. More and more artists are getting ready to organize their own gigs and showcases. This is very good for the songwriter scene in Amsterdam. These posters serve as an inspiration for everybody... keep the shows coming!

Matthew de Zoete is in town!

4 ASG songwriters in finals of GPvNL

Saturday December 13 we'll have the finals of the Grote Prijs van Nederland, in Paradiso Amsterdam. In the songwriters edition, 4 out of the 6 finalists are regulars at the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild. There's a clip about the songwriters and you can watch it below...

Finalisten Singer/Songwriter

Livingroom festival Club Canapé

Together with Live in Your Livingroom we organize a three day livingroom festival in Amsterdam.

This is the schedule:
Fri 12 Dec: Lake Montgomery, Ro Halfhide, Chinup
Address: Zuideinde 296, Amsterdam Noord

Sat 13 Dec: Amarins, Habiba, The Secret Love Parade
Address: Van Bossestraat 54 huis, Amsterdam

Sun 14 Dec: Barbara Breedijk, The Woodwards, M-JO
Address: Tweede Boerhaavestraat 36, Amsterdam

The concerts start at 8 pm, until 9.30 pm. Entry fee 10 euros, drinks and snacks included...
More info you can get here, also ordering tickets and stuff.
Get tickets here

Don't miss this...

DEADLINE FOR ENTERING ISC IS FAST APPROACHING!

Hurry if you wish to enter the 2008 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) with the deadline Oct 15. Now is your chance to enter what the NY Times calls "the competition to take note of"with $150,000 (US) in cash and prizes - including $25,000 (US) cash for the grand prize winner alone and the best judges for any songwriting competition in the world. Judges for 2008 include: Tom Waits; Ray Davies (The Kinks), Black Francis (Pixies), Chaka Khan and 5 record label presidents from major and independent records labels. For entry information and a complete list of judges please visit - http://www.songwritingcompetition.com

Benefit festival for Zimbabwe

Rina Mushonga is organizing this festival for art projects in Zimbabwe:

New weekly open mic session in Amsterdam!

Hosted by our friend Cindy Peress.

Video compilations of ASG sampler cd presentation

Want to feel what the evening at Bitterzoet looked like, without having to watch the many vids out there? Check these out:

Indigo Brown, keen an eye on them

These two songwriters from London took Cafe de Doelen by storm a couple of months ago. By the time I came in, they were already finished - playing an extremely short set. But the audience and the owner were never before so enthusiastic about the show, calling it the best thing they'd ever seen in the bar...
They also write songs for others so if you want to get a good soul thing happening on your next record... call them!