Carla Ryder: News

Hi friends -
I just got some really good news. "Lonesome Town" off Til the End of Counting has
placed as a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. This is a big deal and a pretty elite contest. There were over 15,000 entries - and it's now down to only 15 contestants in my category. In the next few weeks judges including Loretta Lynn, Tom Waits, Nelly Furtado and Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) will be listening and deciding who wins. They have also opened up a people's choice category. This is where you come in. It would mean a lot if you could take a minute to click on the site and cast your vote for the song "Lonesome Town" in the Americana category. http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/PVWelcome2007.htm
I think you can vote as much as once per day, so if the spirit moves you, keep on clickin' and voting from Feb 5th to Feb 29th.

The prizes include some very cool gear, recording time and equipment, lots of industry exposure and cash!!

Hope you caught Carla Ryder Band on the River last Wednesday featured as the "home-grown" artist. This is greater Boston's best station - so a nice little honor.

"Lonesome Town" off of Til the End of Counting has just been named a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. And the competition is stiff so this is great news. We'll keep you posted as the results come in.

Just wanted to post that our Oct 19th date with Amy Fairchild at the Lizard Lounge has been rescheduled. We're now playing the early set on Wed Oct 10th at 8:00 opening for Dennis Brennan. This will be a great night of music- if you haven't seen Dennis and his amazing band, you'll be blown away.
Our double bill with Amy is happening at the Lizard on Friday night Nov 30th.

RCD, a Canadian record company has seleced the song the Tide for licensing. Working out the details now, but it looks like a great opportunity.
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"Three Mondays Gone" has been accepted for inclusion on mvyradio.com's Local MusiCafe!
In 2005 alone, there were more than 400,000 mp3 downloads from the LMC! mvyradio is consistently ranked within the top 15 most streamed internet radio stations in the world. LMC Featured Artists are automatically considered for airplay on the Local MusiCafe show which is broadcast on the air and webcast Sundays at 8pm EST.
http://www.mvyradio.com/local_musicafe/

CRB CD's are now available at BestBuy.com: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat68000050003&type=category

Til the End of Counting has been added to Roots Rock Radio - log onto to http://RRRadio.com to listen in.

August 2nd come to a special show and take part in something that hasn’t happened in a long time. I’ll be getting together & playing an acoustic set with my old friend Tom Groleau. For those of you who aren’t aware, Tommy, who was the drummer during our Mudhens days, has become quite the guitarist in the past few years, playing scads of solo-acoustic shows. Tommy was also one of the main forces, arrangers and co-writers behind the album “Pulling Down Sky”. I’m excited to be making music with him again! We’ll be doing some vintage Mudhens tunes, a few cuts from Pulling Down Sky, and some new stuff if we can pull it together by then. We'll be playing at the Hooley House on Union St. in Boston at 9:00 - Thus 8/2/07.