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30A Songwriters Festival – Video

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

So, here is some new video from the 30A Songwriters Festival I attended in January in Santa Rosa Beach.   If you didn’t catch my notes from that day you can view them here.  This video is from the last day of the festival and is my last performance.  This round included musicians Bob Corley, Effron White and Blake Guthrie  and MC’d by Kevin Boyle.  Good Times.  Just before I started, someone whispered to me that we had 3 minutes left, so I sped things up just a little as Blake still had to perform.  Since we had a merch table to our rate, I said what everyone always says I forget to say. Pretty much it’s “please support me by buying my stuff” only I summarized for the given time.  If you missed the first video from the festival, you can view that one here when you’re done.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgk1miVe6M

Related Links:

Notes from this day of the festival

Another video from day 2

30Asongwritersfestival.com

Not My Life

-Alex Nelson-

This is not how I imagined
how everything would feel
never thought, It could happen
seems I’ve gone too far to make this real
but in the end I know
that we’re just passing time

I’m a wreck, on the inside
you see through my disguise
and you see right through me
feel the pain that lies behind my eyes
but I don’t know what you
see in me

No I don’t believe it’s over
I take back all the lies I told you
and I make a wish
to turn back all the time

No I don’t believe it’s over
all the times I thought
it would be just fine
but I know that this is not my life

No this is not my life

Can you stay forever?
is it the pain you want to feel?
Could we stay together
seems I’ve pushed to hard to make this real
but you say it’s ok
it’s ok

and you know the feeling
when everything’s just right
when it feels so perfect
when I have you right here by my side
but I know it’s going to fade
it’s going to fade

No I don’t believe it’s over
I take back all the lies I told you
and I make a wish
to turn back all the time

No I don’t believe it’s over
all the times I thought
it would be just fine
but I know that this is not my life

No this is not my life

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I think it's time to euthanize my myspace

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Here lies myspace

Everytime I start to send out an email to you guys I just start typing and typing.  Next thing I know it’s super long and I start thinking “who is going to read all this?”  I can’t help it.  In my head, you guys are talking back to me so sending out emails is like having a conversation with you.  I promise though, I’m going to work on keeping those short.

Luckily, those rules don’t apply to me here. phew!  So I’ll begin my ramble now…

First off… myspace.  It’s dead.  let’s admit to that. I’m tired of updating it and looking at it. Like many people I have more than one.  One I started some time ago before I actually headed in the direction I’m in now and then a new one for the album.  I’ve noticed that things have been dying off over there for some time. In fact, for the last few months I haven’t gotten anything from you guys there.  Just about everything now is through facebook.  So I’m thinking of just deleting those account entirely or just putting a RIP image up.

Next…

The Wallflower Gallery

Some ‘are we there yet?’ videos are almost done.  I have three pieces that are going to go up first.  They are informational pieces on The Wallflower Gallery in Miami, Central Square Records in Seaside and DaVinci in Deland.

These are three places I played in January that the owners were very much into supporting music and pushing independent artists. I want to put these up as a thank you to them and to also allow them to introduce themselves in their own words to any other musicians/artists.  So if you’re a musician and looking for a place to play, I totally recommend looking up these three places.

Also, I’ve got Day1 of the 30A songwriters Festival all edited and just waiting on some other minor post editing shtuff to happen.   This project is taking a little more time than I thought it would but it’s worth it.  Definitely learning a lot of things about video production.

road trip (again)…

I’m getting ready for the trip up to DC. This should be interesting. I think I’ll document my travel into the cold part of the world for “are we there yet?”  In my opinion, there is a lot of stuff in the Element. It’s packed.  I even took a seat out.  I always try to leave space in case sleeping in the car is necessary.  It’s been awhile since I’ve driven in snow.  But this is going to be cool.  Hoping to ride up through the night and make it there by tomorrow.  Did something similar last year when I went up to North Carolina. I know know, this is further!

The main reason for going up is to play a show as Crash Basket.  A band I was formerly in with Paul Roub and Marhall Wilner.  We’ve been talking about getting together for years but things haven’t worked out until now.    On friday night, Paul and I will play individual sets and then on saturday we’ll rock it as Crash Basket.

I’m super stoked that I’ll also see Gordon Withers.  He’s my buddy that recorded the cello on my album.  Gonna try to rock out with him as well.

On the way back, I’ll make a stop over to Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, GA and see how things go.  I’m nervous and excited all at the same time.  it’s tingly.

So that’s all I got so far.  Time to go finish packing and getting everything ready. I’ll be in touch.  Next up I’ll do a follow up to killing the myspace.  The next will be killing the pictures musicians take with train tracks. No more train track pictures guys! ok?

talk to you soon.

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ecomania festival update

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Just wanted to let you know about some new information I got the other day when I picked up the contract for this event.  Ive been getting a lot of questions and wanted to answer the two big ones.

Although the little postcard flyers that have been going around stating that you can purchase tickets for the event at a website, the promoters are asking the bands to sell tickets.  They want each band to try to sell 50 tickets.  We’re not getting any cash money for the event, but are getting paid in tickets.  So after selling the first 50 tickets we are then given another 50 tickets as payment for the performance for us to sell.  So if you can, buy your tickets from the artists themselves.

The schedule HAS NOT been made for the event.  So I have no idea yet what time I will be playing or any of the other bands. What I was told was that the schedule will be made after they figure out who has sold what number of tickets.

Other than that, I got nothing. Hope this helps.  If this doesn’t answer your question,  I’ll be responding back to you on a one to one basis.

Thanks!

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Acoustic Songwriters Night – Bierbrunnen

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

427 S Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316-1602
(954) 462-1008

From 7pm – 11pm.

General Information

I will be hosting an Acoustic Songwriters Night at the Bierbrunnen in Ft. Lauderdale starting Wed, Feb 17th.    The event is open to all musicians/songwriters looking to showcase, practice or test new material and network with other musicians.  The night is a forum for you to work on your craft, get feedback from peers, learn and share with each other.  The Bierbrunnen is a restaurant.  They serve traditional German foods and have several beers and wines available.

If you have any questions I can be contacted via email at alex@alexnelsonmusic.com.  You may also contact me via facebook.  If you are interested in being a featured performer, please see me on the night of the event so that we can discuss.

To forward this information along you can use either the share buttons below that will allow you to tweet or post the event to your facebook pages.   If you would like to send a link, you can refer to this short url: http://su.pr/1xw26h

Acoustic Songwriters Night Information

Each night musicians will be allowed to come up and perform two ORIGINAL songs.  At the end of the night one musician will be chosen as a finalist.  At the end of March, we will have a final round where the finalist will return and perform for a group of judges.  The judges will include people who work in the arts in South Florida including members of the local media and local Artist organizations.

The winner of the final round will receive a showcase spot in Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriters Showcase‘s Annivserary Show in May at the Broward Center as well as an interview/appearance on Steven Jude’s Internet Radio/TV show “Fast Forward”  on wrpbradio.com. (based in Lake Worth) the songwriter will be interviewed on their career in the music biz and play 3 original songs. The show gets an estimated 30,000 hits.  The winner will also receive a write up in the Homegrown section of the Sun-Sentinel Newspaper.

For those of you that like lists, the winner will receive:

1) a showcase slot at Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriters Showcase at the Broward Center (Anniversary Show in May)

2) On Air Interview Performance on Steven Jude’s Fast Forward show on WRPB.

3) Homegrown article in Sun-sentinel

This is not a battle of the bands nor a popularity contest.  There is just some really amazing talent down here in south florida (the three counties).   The night is to be an event where we can celebrate each others talents and collaborate.  The ‘prizes’ are merely a way of giving back and providing you with opportunities.   There are no real winners or losers here.  If you don’t make it through a round it doesn’t mean you ‘suck’.  We all started somewhere and the night is open to all levels of talent and is primarily a way for you to work on and showcase your craft.


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