http://sigpaulson.com/news.html Sig Paulson: News Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:24:17 -0700 http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#24 Also... I will be attending the Folk Alliance Region West Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Vancouver Washington November 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Hopefully I will have a showcase spot at the conference but that is as yet uncertain. The conference looks to be great though, with talent, agents and people from all angles of "The business". (Hey! Quit givin' me the business Wally!)
ANYWAY...
Many things happening in late July, August and September. My Mother Passed away on July 29th. I'll miss her very much. That of course got most of the family out here and ... well as anyone knows who's been through that kind of thing there is just a lot to deal with. So... that is one of the reasons why I haven't written to the site in so long... that and all the other things one has to do on a daily basis to sustain life as we know it.
On the positive side though one nice thing that happened was my first gig at the Hotel Oregon in McMinnville. It's a very cool place. The cellar bar is a very "Irish Pub" style bar. Not very big but the audience was very attentive and appreciative.
Another nice gig was the one at Highland Park. My buddy Stan Scharry was up from California and with Mickey Grossman playing bass and Fuzzy Purcel on Mandolin and guitar we had a great time. Other than it was about 103 that day! But the park is really quite shady and it was more comfortable than I thought it might be.
I would like to start a new feature here on the news page. I'd like to tell you about some other music... albums specifically (although it might be something live) that I enjoy and that I think you might enjoy. I'd like to invite you to respond on my guest page... maybey you have something you enjoy... maybe you thought an album I suggested sucked. Whatever... Just an ongoing feature where we can communicate about music and feel like we live in less of a vaccume.
My first album I'd like to suggest to you is "The Knuckleball Suite" by Peter Mulvey. Mulvey is a master lyracist. He's got sort of a hoarse voice and in a lower range.. sort of intrigueing. Many of the tunes are jazz flavored. I'd say it's mainly an acoustic album but there is a rocker here and there. It's an album I can't get out of my stereo... I like it that much. My favorite songs on it are "Abilene (The Eisenhower Waltz)", "Girl In The High Tops", "Thorn" (very haunting love song... all the good and bad thrown in at the same time) "Lila Blue" and "Marty and Lou". Peter Mulvey from Milwaukee Wisconsin. Check him out and let me know what you think.
That's it for now. Come out to one of the shows and say hello!
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#24 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#23 Stuff just keeps happening here in hippiebilly land. I sent in my entry for Gig Harbor Folk festival with 5 tunes on it. Gig Harbor folk Festival will be August 25th and 26th this year. John Gorka and Jesse Winchester will be there this year... and many other great folk singers. Hopefully I'll be able to go back this year and compete in their songwriting competition.
I did compete on Wednesday, June 11th at Mississippi Pizza Pub in the Road To The Bite Competiton through Portland Songwriters Association. Out of 12 songwriters I was able to place in the top 3 and move on to the Semi Finals which will take place on Wednesday, August 8th. If I place in the top 3 at that competition I will go on to compete for the top spot in the competition at the Bite itself which is on Sunday, August 12th
Next... The City of Salem has waived the noise ordinance and cost of Riverfront Park for a series of concerts in the park on Tuesday nights throughout the summer and fall. I was lucky enough to secure one of those evenings. I'll be presenting a songwriters in the round with my friends Dan Lowe and Tom Arnold (with Paul Kwitike) and one other songwriter (TBA). The show will take place on Tuesday, august 21st from 6:30 to 8:30.
AND... I received my copy of the "River City Folk... best of 2006" which included my song "Parking Lot Ponies" on it. It was a great show and I was very proud to be included with so many really great writers and performers from the acoustic world. Thank you Tom May! Please check out the shows archives which can be navigated through Tom's website. I guess that's all the news from me right now. Come on down to one of the shows and say hi! I miss you when you stay in the woodwork like that.
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#23 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#22 Well... late again, but now that I'm on Summer break I'll try to catch up on all my tasks... like writing to my journal.
First off, I'll be doing a show at the Artichoke Music Coffee House (3130-A S.E. Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland OR) from 9:30 to 10:00 P.M. on Friday, July 6th. It's the premier listening room for roots/Americana music in Portland! Please come on down and check it out.
Next will be a nice evening gig at Highland Park (on Broadway near Pine St. in Salem... don't know the exact address) That show is on Tuesday, July 10th from 6:30 to 8:30. The Highland show will also feature my buddys Stan Scharry on drums, Mickey Grossman on bass and Fuzzy Purcell on guitar and mandolin.
Then... on Wednesday, July 11th I'll be at Mississippi Pizza 3552 N Mississippi Ave in Portland. I'll be competing in the "Road to the Bite" songwriters competition. The show will feature 10 songwriters competing for a spot onstage at the Bite of Oregon later this Summer. The show there starts at 7:00 P.M.
I'd like to thank my friends Bob Rindy (Guitar and violin) Rick Snowdon (Bass) and Michael Strahan (Drums) for helping me out and doing a fine show at my boss Kathy Larson's retirment party last Friday night. We played a listening set for dinner and then played some dance stuff reaching back to the old Sahib and Mojo days. It was a lot of fun.
I'll be entering a few more songwriting competitions... trying to write some more songs for the next album and... Pat Sevigny and I will be meeting tomorrow night to discuss some videos that we can put on u-tube and some other sites. Hope everyone is having a great start to the summer. Oh! I almost forgot... I wanted to mention that "Tangled In My roots" sold out its first run and I've been back to Superdigital and we are re-stocked! I'll mention again that "Tangled In My Roots" and my first album "Movies and Magazines" is available at CDbaby.com for $12.00
Thanks... hope to see you at one of the gigs. Write to the site on the icon "Renegades" and let me know you're out there!
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#22 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#21 The time got away from me again. But... It is still the first half of the month! Anyway... let's see... what has been happening? I went to a song pitch hosted by the Portland Songwriters Association in conjunction with the West Coast Songwriters Association. Antoinette Olesen, head of A&R for Parthenon Music Group Inc a music row company was there screening songs. There were 43 people. Either they played their songs live or played a CD for her. I would say she took about 6 to 8 CDs with her. She listened to "Givin' 'Em Hell" from Tangled In My Roots. Yes indeedie folks... she took my CD with her. It was a great fun night. We shall see what happens with that. I will keep you all up-dated as I make tracking calls. Another tracking call I'll be making is with KLCC radio in Eugene. I sent them a copy of Tangled In My Roots trying to get it on the air. KLCC Public Radio
www.klcc.org
4000 East 30th Ave
Eugene, OR 97405
(800) 922-3682
(541) 463-6000
Give them a call and request a song off of Tangled In My Roots! It will be a grass roots movement to get me on the airwaves.
I also played at the Artichoke Music Coffee House. It's a great venue. Nice stage and set up for people who love acoustic music. I'll be trying to get in there again soon. Please check it out and let the owner Richard Columbo know what you think of it. He really is helping to build a positive healthy community through this effort. Well my little renegades... it's time once again for me to slip back into the shadows. Please... sign in to the guestbook if you visit the site. It really is an upper for me to know you were there.
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#21 Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#20 A look at the past month...
I went to my first Portland Songwriters Workshop on St. Patricks Day. It was a lot of fun! I played a new song, "We Got Rain". It was well received and I got a couple of good suggestions... usable changes I could make. I'm really enjoying being a member of Portland Songwriters Association. It's a great place to try out new material and I feel like I've already made some good friends there.

Dan Lowe... President of the Association and great writer to boot... invited me to participate in a songwriters in the round at Urban Rhythms Coffee Co. in Beaverton on the 31st of March. Besides Dan and myself, Tom Arnold who writes some incredibly funny songs was there. It was really a fun night. Urban Rhythms has a garage door on one end that opens up to a huge patio with a fountain. As events come up there I really would encourage people to go out there and check it out. Nice little stage... although a bit cramped for three guys.

I also played at the Riverhouse on the 24th. It was great to see Steve and Joy (The owners). Had a great night and part of my core group... Terry and Jeannie Swisher came along. After my show we went down the road and heard Tom May... Great folk song writer/performer and host of "River City Folk"... Nationally syndicated radio show. I bought a copy of his album "Vested". Some nice songs on there... you should check it out. Tom told me that "Parking Lot Ponies" made it on to the "Best of River City Folk" show. He's going to send me a copy of the show. Thanks for including me Tom.

A look ahead at April...
I'll be performing "West of Idaho" and "If the Castle Burns" at the University of Oregon on April 15th between 3 and 5 in round 3 of the Willamette Valley Folk Festival New Song Competition. It takes place in the Ben Linder room at the E.M.U.

I'll also be performing for a half hour show at the Artichoke Community Coffee House $5.00 Cover)

Please check the calendar for adresses.

Looking way forward Michele and I have decided to host another Songwriters In The Round at our house .... probably on August 4th. Keep watching for details on that one.

Well... my happy little renegades! That's it for this posting. Remember... you can always find out what's happening at WWW.Sigpaulson.com
And you can always find my CDs at CDbaby.com
Until next month
Mr.Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#20 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#19 The first thing I want to let you know is that I reduced the prices on my CDs at CD Baby. I realized that the shipping added some dough and so... it was higher priced than if you came to one of my shows. They are now priced at $12.00 instead of $15.00. So, to all those who were asking... "How should I buy your CDs? From you or on line?" Now it is probably just a hair cheaper on line at CD Baby. You can get to CD Baby by clicking "Links" on my site and there is a link to each album.
I had a great time at the Portland Songwriters Competition for songwriter of the year. Congratulations to Sean Garcia (runner up) and Winner Tyler Stenson. Great songs and great performances by all who participate.
On Presidents Day weekend I went to Gig Harbor with Michele and our friends Terry and Jeannie Swisher. The girls went off to Seattle for the day on Saturday while Terry and I went to Safari Studios. I recorded a couple of tracks that I'll use for for songwriters competition demos. It was a real trip to meet Denny Gore who ownes and runs Safari Studios. He has a whole table full of Emmys and another full of Tellys (Awards for documentaries he's worked on) and an Oscar. Denny has toured with Lou Rawles, guest hosted the Tonight Show band, done strings for Barbara Streisand and was the musical director for Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special. Most of all though he's just a great guy. It was a fun day.
Guess that's it for now... Check out the calendar... I'll be at The River House In Pacific City Saturday, March 24th from 7 to 9 P.M..
Your Humble Renegade Troubadour]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#19 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#18 I was going to write every month in 2007 but technically it's not January anymore so... what I want to do is set up some sort of realistic goal to write to the site (and ultimately you!) every month. So... what I'm going to try now is the end/beginning of each month. I failed miserably at the once a week goal!
Well... let's see what's up shall we? I have written six songs for the next album which for right now is titled "Totem Pole". Each figure on a totem pole tells a story and that's what each song does on an album. Also, the Totem Pole is a familiar piece of art from the northwest and I'm trying to reflect on and represent the area where I grew up and live through my songs.
I'm also working on learning songs written by songwriters from the Northwest or written about the Northwest. So that I can put them into the live shows.
There hasn't been a whole lot of live shows right now... due to the day job, trying to write and get promotional materials together for songwriters competitions and event gigs for the summer. Hopefully soon I can start listing those and filling up the spring, summer and fall schedules.
I will be performing this Wednesday, February 7th at Mississippi Pizza Pub located at 3552 N. Mississippi Ave in Portland @ 7:00 p.m. I'll be one of ten finalists in the Portland Songwriters Association's performing songwriter of the year competition. I've seen some great songwriters and performers during the competition. Come on out and hear some of Portlands best!
Thanks, and I'll be getting back to you next around the end of February for an update. Remember... as dates are added you can always check out the calendar at WWW.Sigpaulson.com
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#18 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#17 Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#17 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#16 I am down with the funky chest cold again for about the 6th or 7th time this year. Will winter ever end here in the land of rainy days? The sound clips for the movie "The Mortuary Counsiler" have been handed over to Producer/Director Pat Sevigny. We're all waiting on the editing process right now. I heard there were a few shots being re-filmed too. I am going to get together with Fuzzy and record the first cut of the next album. It's a love song written for Michele and will just be me on guitar and vocal. I don't think there will be any dubs on this cut... it's too personal and I think it just works better that way. To all the people who signed in to my guestbook... thank you. It is nice to look in there and hear from old friends and to know that someone new liked my songs and took the time to say hello. I've learned a few new "Cover" tunes. "You Know The Rest", written by Steve Earle and one by the Fabulous Thunderbirds called "Why Get Up?" Time for me to write some more! With the day job it's really hard to find quiet times to write... but summer will be coming and hopefully some gigs outdoors in the sun!
Come on down to Lefty's this Sunday from 5 to 8 and boogie woogie with me and Mickey Grossman, Rod Steward and Paul Painter.
Sig]]> http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#16 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 N.W. Renegade Troubadour - Sig Paulson - News http://sigpaulson.com/news.html#15 Hope everything is good with y'all!
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