DSA International 2022 Song Contest Winners Announced at January Awards Ceremony

 Thursday, February 24, 2023

Dallas Songwriters Celebrate Songwriting at Annual Awards Show

DSA celebrated winners from the Annual International Song Contest and the Young Songwriters Contest in January 2023.

Dallas, TX, February 24, 2023 --(Blogger.com)--The Dallas Songwriters Association presented their 32^nd Annual Song Contest Awards highlighting 2022 songwriting contestants via Zoom with a live stream to Facebook featuring live performances by semifinalists, contest winners, and multiple presenters. 

“Another great year of talented entries,” said MC Barbara McMillen, Founder and President Emeritus of DSA, “The songs just keep getting better each year and I am so proud to share some of the semifinalist performances on our virtual “live” event.”   

Winners of the DSA 32^nd Annual International Song Contest were announced in eight categories, plus the Grand Prize winners. http://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com.

Judges were industry professionals who judged songs based on six elements of a song:  hook, melody, lyric, structure, originality, and truth.  DSA offered over $5,000 in prizes.  Each category winner won a free membership to DSA.  First Place winners received $100 and 2nd place winners received $50. 

Once again, DSA partnered with Broadjam, who provided fantastic prizes to some of our winners, including a 1-year Broadjam Primo MoB Membership ($199.95 Value). Other prizes awarded were: one song critique from Barbara McMillen, Associate Professor of Songwriting at Collin College, recording time at JoMusik Studio, and two tickets to Between the Waves Music Conference.     

32^nd Annual Song Contest Awards

             Grand Prize Winners

Thierry Coupey of Quebec, Canada, the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Dallas Songwriters Association International Song Contest is enjoying his new Casio PX-S1000 Privia Piano, for his song "Redemption (The Last Waltz)."

The 2nd and 3rd place Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Dallas Songwriters Association International Song Contest is Mike P. Ryan for his songs “Some Goodbyes and Between Heaven and the Ground.”

             First Place Category Winners

Category	Song and Songwriter
AMERICANA/BLUEGRASS	A Vagabond Wind by Andrew Wolf, Washington, DC
CHRISTIAN/INSPIRATIONAL	Holding On by Kevin Toqe, Andrews Sanders, Bluffton, SC
COUNTRY	Vagabond Wind by Andrew Wolf, Washington, DC
INSTRUMENTAL	Soothing Times (2017-2022) by Thierry Coupey, Saint Anne, Quebec, CAN
LOVE SONGS & EASY LISTENING	Frostbite Heart by Randall Mark, El Cajon, CA
NOVELTY/CHILDREN	Snacks and Naps by Susan Odella, Virginia, MN
POP/ROCK/ALT/R&B	Open Road by Louie Cate, Alexandria, VA
SINGER/SONGWRITER	What Love Needs by Denise Rosier, Colorado Springs, CO

For a complete list of the winners see the Song Contest website: http://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com

The Most Nominated Songs Award went to: Charles Carter, Dallas, Texas

DSA honored Joli Hope of Dallas, Tx with the Young Songwriters Award and a scholarship. She is currently attending Belmont College. More details at https://youngsongwriterscontest.blogspot.com

More awards are planned for March 25th when DSA will honor Opening Bell, Tone Shop, 3 Amigos and Patty Allen Driver as outstanding community partners. 

DSA celebrates and continues to honor the hard work of their members by presenting the Vern Dailey Songwriter of the Year Award and the Best Song of the Year Award on March 25th.

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Dallas Songwriters Association is a 501 C-3 non-profit educational organization dedicated to enhancing the overall personal growth and professionalism of our members. With a passion for music and songwriting, DSA offers various events to support their members’ growth through workshops, open mics, networking, showcases, song contests, and community service.  Support DSA by visiting https://dallassongwriters.org/.

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DSA Performs at City Line Stage during Wildflower Festival May 20-22.

 Allow your ‘inner songwriter’ to blossom while riffing with the Dallas Songwriter Association this weekend at the 2022 Wildflower Arts & Music Festival in Richardson

 

RICHARDSON – You might be a songwriter if you scribble song lyrics on toilet paper and napkins, hum new melodies into your phone’s memo app and consider almost everything that happens to you as fodder for your next hit. 

 

Trouble is, you’ll never know unless you act on the songwriting muse and layer words and music together, breathing life into those fleeting creative impulses.  There’s a gold-record opportunity this weekend as dozens of the 100 active members of the Dallas Songwriters Association (DSA) will be manning information booths and performing their original songs on one of five stages Friday through Sunday at the Wildflower Arts & Music Fesitval in Richardson. 

 

This is your chance to sample home-grown original music, visit the DSA booth to get encouragement and information and convince yourself to take the next step: Join. Create. Collaborate. Perform. Critique. Repeat. 

 

About two dozen DSA performers will play their songs on the City Line Stage. Among them is Barbe McMillen  (1 p.m. Saturday), who is a music therapist with a sweet voice who serves as  Associate Professor of Songwriting and Music Business at Collin College.  Later (9:30 p.m.), Stephen Troum closes out the evening with his tunes, three of which earned him the title of 2021 DSA Songwriter of the Year. Troum, a medical doctor who specializes in hand surgery by day, spends his free time directing his digits to compose cool, contemporary rock songs. 

 

So, would-be songwriters, that’s the challenge. Check out the Wildflower this weekend, listen to some heartfelt tunes, hang around these prolific songwriters and something is bound to rub off. Join the DSA and start participating in classes, open-mic sessions, Zoom and live critiques and tap that inner songwriter persona that wants to shine. 

 

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If You Go:  Friday-Sunday (hours vary) at Galatyn Park Urban Center, 
2351 Performance Drive, Richardson, TX 75082. Day passes $20 (Sunday only) to $35 (Friday and Saturday). Kids 12 and under FREE.  Check out the DSA booth at the Wildflower or visit the website and, before you know it, you’ll be singing and strumming like nobody’s watching.