Performing Songwriter Competition

Entries open now for 2012 Competition until April 15, 2012

Rules and Information | Entry Form

The goal of the competition is to encourage emerging singer/songwriters to seek recognition for their work and to offer them the chance to further their careers.

Contest winners receive:

- A $100 prize
- A featured gig at the Rose Garden

We will annouce the 2012 contestants as soon as we know them.
We'll annouce them on our home page.

View Winner's Page, with photos and videos of our contestants

2011 Performing Songwriters Competition - Contestants

Ron Carlson, N. Oxford, Mass. WINNER	Tom Gizzi, Lenox, Mass web site	Charlie Loesel, Seattle WA web site

Ron Carlson is a currently unemployed union paperhanger and painter who first started dabbling in music at age 13. He plays guitar, octave mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and other stringed instruments. He has worked in numerous bands, has one CD, and is working on a new recording.	Tom Gizzi, used to work in the hotel restaurant business but now performs at about 70 assisted living facilities a year and at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA. He’s been playing guitar since he was a teenager and says that most of his songs are inspired by the 30 years he has spent living in the Berkshire Mountains.	Charlie Loesel will be flying in from Seattle to compete on May 21. He began performing at age 29 in his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan, after starting a career in engineering. He spent time in Nashville doing some recording, then moved to Seattle to get away from the business part of music and find time to write.