The Song School

Just seconds into his current album, Idaho-native Josh Ritter leaps into rapid-fire lyrics that reference Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale, all of whom seem to be stuck together in the belly of a whale. Those legendary heroines he name-checks were each responding to an inner voice that pushed them toward some extraordinary mission, one both noble and a little foolhardy. Over the course of six full-lengths, Josh has followed those voices - touring the world as a folk-rock troubadour, becoming a national celebrity in Ireland, winning over critics at the New York Times and Paste Magazine (who named him one of the 100 best living songwriters), writing some of the most poetic and intellectually complex songs of our young century, and winning over fans with a jubilant, warm live show that is in-the-moment, fun, and unusually sincere.

Melissa Ferrick has the kind of relationship with her audience that few artists are blessed with. Her live performance is fierce and funny, outspoken and vulnerable, passionate and real. Writes the Boston Globe: "She appeared at times to be channeling Bruce Springsteen and Ricky Lee Jones simultaneously. The emotional honesty of Ferrick’s first-person lyrics, the force of her vocal delivery and the disciplined fury of her musicianship connects her to her audience with confidence and grace. She’s been gaining fans since her first release at age twenty-two on Atlantic Records. Her next three recordings were released by indie label What Are Records. In 2000, Melissa launched her own label: Right On Records. Her newest album, In the Eyes of Strangers is the label’s sixth release. Always groundbreaking, Melissa achieved an industry first by setting up direct digital downloads from her website, allowing her fans to help fund the recording of her new album.

Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 90 ’s when the buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-jazz singer who was knocking ‘em dead at open mikes. The word spread of this Philadelphia born and raised performer to New York; Shawn Colvin invited Vance to be a special guest on her Fat City tour. Gilbert took audiences by storm ( “With the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar of a god, it was enough to earn him a rarity: an encore for an opener ” wrote the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in its review of a show from that tour). Gilbert ’s five albums, with guests as varied as jazz greats, Tuck and Patti, Jonatha Brooke, Patty Larkin, Dee Carstensen, Vinx, and Issa (formerly Jane Siberry), are essential ingredients to the American singer-songwriter collection. His presence, both as performer and teacher, will renew your belief in the importance of songwriting.

Pat Pattison is an author, clinician and Berklee Professor of Lyric Writing and Poetry whose students have composed for major artists and written number one songs. At Berklee, he developed the curriculum for the only songwriting major in the country. His books, including Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming and Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, are recognized as definitive in their genre, and have earned many ecstatic reviews. His clinics are attended by songwriters all over the country, and his articles appear regularly in a variety of industry publications.

PAUL REISLER has been performing and writing for over 30 years. He was the founder of Trapezoid and performed close to 3,000 concerts worldwide. He has been involved in over 35 recording projects in various roles as a musician, engineer, producer and composer. He has just released a new album of original songs with his new band, Paul Reisler and a Thousand Questions featuring Angela Kaset and Howard Levy called At Night the Roses Tango. He is the founder and director of Kid Pan Alley™ and has now written over 800 songs with over 18,000 children nationally. Their recent CD, Kid Pan Alley Nashville, features many of that city’s best-known artists recording the songs written with the children. That album received a Grammy nomination and won both Parents’ Choice and NAPPA Gold Awards. He has taught songwriting to adults at workshops and songwriting schools throughout the country including the Rocky Mountain Song School, Utah Song School, Swannanoa Gathering, Blue Ridge Songcamp, Augusta Workshop, Hollyhock, Kerrville, NSAI, Songcamp in the Mountains and many others. He’s currently working on a Kid Pan Alley musical, a full-length piece for orchestra and narrator based on Aesop’s Fables, and a new Kid Pan Alley CD in Charlottesville, VA.

Steve Seskin started out in the 70’s as a street musician in San Francisco, and has steadily built an exceptionally successful career both as a songwriter and as a performer. He has written seven number one songs, including Grammy-nominated “Grown Men Don’t Cry,” recorded by Tim McGraw, and “Don’t Laugh at Me,” winner of NSAI Song of the Year and Music Row Magazine Song of the Year as recorded by Mark Wills. While Steve is best known for writing hits, he is also a successful performer and recording artist. His latest recording is "Two Paper Town." He is also a sought after songwriting teacher participating in seminars for the NSAI, West coast Songwriters and at many folk festivals. He is often a guest lecturer at the Berklee School of Music, The JMC Academy and McNally Smith College. “Don’t Laugh at Me” was also recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary and became the impetus for the Operation Respect/Don’t Laugh at Me project, a curriculum designed to teach tolerance that has been taught in more than 20,000 schools across the country. The song is now available as a children’s book, Don’t Laugh At Me, which was a featured book on PBS’s Reading Rainbow. His latest book is called "Sing My Song" (a kids guide to songwriting) It is a "how to" book for kids interested in writing songs. The goal of that program is to instill a love of creativity in kids at an early age and to put more songs into the world about love, kindness and respect.

Farm girl Susan Werner was raised in rural Iowa but began her professional music career in Philadelphia, after studying classical voice at Temple University. Inspired by a Nanci Griffith concert, Werner left behind her opera training and began performing as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses throughout the northeast. Now with 6 albums under her belt, an active touring career throughout the U.S. and a string of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, The Village Voice, and The Chicago Tribune, Susan Werner has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre. Her songs effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop, and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm. Says The New Yorker: "Susan Werner, a clever songwriter and an engaging performer, brings literacy and wit back to popular song."

"Chicago" Mike Beck presents his International Touring workshop at SongSchool for the third consecutive year. Since 2001, Mike has toured Europe over a dozen times, spending more than 24 months performing and touring in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Ireland and Belgium as a solo performer and with his band The Intergalactic Brother & Sisterhood of Big Eyed Beans. His debut CD, released in 2002 has received radio airplay in the USA, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Transylvania, Romania, Macedonia and Japan. He has personally brought over 20 musicians on their first overseas tours. Mike is currently in the midst of recording his followup CD release, due out this Autumn, which includes vocal contributions from Bloodshot Records' Nora O'Connor. Mike has been a featured panelist at South-by-Southwest, the Folk Alliance National Conference, and several other music industry events. Mike loves empowering and inspiring musicians to pursue their dreams, and enjoys sharing practical ideas, methods and information to help make them real. He also loves to sing, and apologizes in advance for when his usually-too-loud voice heard around the FolksFest campfires keeps you awake all night. He is very excited to be back in Lyons, Colorado for his fifth Song School.

A native of eastern Kentucky, Ron Browning has been immersed in both performing and fine arts since childhood. His educational background include a BME in voice and piano from the University of Kentucky, post-graduate studies and teaching credentials from University of California at Northridge, and a Professional Designation of Recording Arts and Sciences at UCLA. Ron currently resides in Nashville, TN where he teaches privately and is on staff at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. As a vocal coach, his students range from major recording artists, to star attractions on subscription series, to acts for Vegas showrooms. He also grooms singers for their very first public performance and works with all genres of music. His vocal method is based on the use of natural voice that one uses everyday -- at work, at home, and at play.  He believes that if you can speak, you can sing.  He is gifted at being able to quickly identify and remove the stumbling blocks that prevent clear and easy voice. One of his students, Patti LaBelle says of Ron: "he is a miracle worker.  He is phenomenal and I thank him for my voice." As a songwriter, Ron's achievements include hits with RCA, special writing assignments for Paramount Television, a dance suite for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, an original long-running musical in Los Angeles, and orchestrations and incidental music for Franklin Lacey, co-author of The Music Man. Ron is presently writing a vocal method text based on his work and the seminars that he does both locally and across the country.

Ah, the elusive bio. The story. The sub-urban legend. Here goes: Tim Burlingame penned his first song at the age of 5 called, "In God We Trust". With a running time of 00:12, the words taken from the back of a dollar bill, and the chords formed from any open string he could strum, the now legendary opus (within the family anyway) went on to sell no records, and gained him a national following of zero people. But it was the start of a love affair with songwriting that has been propelling him forward ever since. He has twice been a finalist in the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase. With his wife, Kathrin Shorr, he has toured in the U.S. and Europe. His songs have been featured on Dawson's Creek, Party of Five and Joan of Arcadia, and he was also the guitarist on the theme song for Joan of Arcadia, a re-recording of "What if God Was One of Us," with Joan Osborne. He runs an independent studio in Los Angeles and freelances as a composer/songwriter for film, television and commercial projects. In 2007, Tim scored a feature film starring Melora Hardin, of the critically acclaimed NBC television series, The Office.

Ellis is a nationally-known touring singer, songwriter and guitarist known for her powerful vocals, charismatic stage presence and playful sense of humor. She founded her own record company at age 18 and has released six albums including the critically acclaimed Break The Spell (2008). Though she keeps a full-time touring schedule, she has maintained a loyal following in her home base of Minneapolis, where she has been named "Best Musician" for the past five consecutive years. This will be her third year teaching at Song School with her partner in crime, Terri Mazurek. A past Song School attendee, she was also a finalist in the Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase in 2005 and she performed on the main stage in 2007.

Rebecca Folsom has taught the Art of Vocal Freedom for over 12 years. She finds great joy in helping others claim the natural resonance, strength, and passion of their own voice. She has a very effective and unique approach of mixing nontraditional shamanic exercises with traditional building block vocal practices. She has taught body centered Vocal Freedom workshops with some of the nations top elite athletes, and helps singers find fluidity and strength with martial arts, yogic, Taoist, and Toltec practices along with classical vocal techniques. Her years of study with Joy Gardner Gordon’s Healing Voice work, Stephen Chun-tao Chengs’s Tao of Voice work, the study of yogic posture and breath, Americo Yabar’s Salka Connection, and years of extensive performance and touring have created an instinctive, effective, and totally fun practice of vocal mastery. She has sung on hundreds of other artist’s recordings and has added two new CDs Shine and Ruby, Live at Velvet this year to three previously released. She will be releasing a newly published book of poetry later this year. She has had the pleasure of performing on BBC radio and television in N. Ireland, Nashville’s Bluebird, Opryland, and Tin Pan South stages, NY’s Bitterend and Falcon Ridge Music Festival, and Colorado's own Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. She is happy to be back for her ninth year at Song School teaching singers how to deepen their personal presence, expand their vocal mastery, and have fun doing it!

Jagoda is a new york city based drummer/percussionist who has work with artists as diverse as Sam Shepard, T-bone Burnette, and Richie Havens to Jill Sobule, Tom Prasada-Rao, Amy Speace and Swamp Cabbage. He teaches drums and percussion privately and has taught rhythm workshops with Paul Reisler and Billy Jonas.   His experience spans genres as wide as orchestral work, theatre and film to world music and folk music from many cultures. equally as comfortable behind a drum set or a single tambourine, Jagoda brings joy to rhythm and brings rhythm to music.   “While exploring the nature of rhythm you become aware of your own internal rhythms and the rhythms of your surroundings. you also get a better understanding of the rhythms that you bring to your music. I can’t think of a more perfect environment than the Rocky Mountain Song School for this kind of exploration.”

Jennifer "JJ" Jones began playing drums and guitar at age 14 while attending a private school for the arts in Seattle. During her career she has been the drummer and arranger/producer for a multitude of bands and studio projects covering a variety of styles, including funk-blues, instrumental jam, alternative rock, power-pop, honky-tonk country and, most recently and primarily, acoustic-folk. Currently relocated to Fort Collins, Colorado, JJ plays and records with nationally touring singer/songwriters Ellis, Edie Carey, Driftwood Fire, Julie Loyd, and Emily White. She has also played with Vance Gilbert, Tret Fure, Anne Heaton and Liz Clark, among many others. In June 2008, JJ attended at the National Women's Music Festival playing with six different acts, three of which were headliners. This last year saw JJ co-producing albums for Driftwood Fire and Emily White, and focusing on collaborations with artists on arrangements and structuring. A sensitive and expressive player, JJ specializes in finding the just the right rhythmic feel, touch and dynamics to bring out the inherent beauty of a song. This will be JJ's fifth year at Song School. She is looking forward to another amazing week of musical exploration and collaboration!

Arthur Lee Land combines diverse influences to create a fresh new musical vibe: Afrograss Flavored Folk Rock. During a tour of Nigeria and Ghana, West Africa in 2001, Arthur spawned the concept of Afrograss: a synthesis of West African percussion and bluegrass in a folk rock context with a touch of funk, reggae, latin and world beat. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Arthur has perfected the art of looping live tracks during one-man performances that have dropped jaws at smaller clubs and concerts across the country.  Recently, Arthur was voted Best Singer/Songwriter by Colorado’s Marquee Magazine for their 2005 Front Row Awards and has added Producer to his list of credits producing and playing guitar on song school alumni Selasee Atiase’s new CD Run in 2005 whose title track won first place in the "2005 International Song Competition (ISC)" for the World Music category. Run was also licensed for the EA Sports 'FIFA 2006' soccer video game which has sold over 6 million copies internationally. This is Arthur’s 5th year teaching at the RMFF Song School.

Terri Mazurek is a Minneapolis-based social worker turned booking agent. What started as a brief consulting gig for a local musician turned into a full-time music career. Terri founded Peppermint Booking Agency in 2000 and currently represents eight nationally touring musicians on the college circuit. She received the National Association of Campus Activities award of "Agent of the Year" in 2005 and has helped six of her eight artists to receive showcases at the regional and national college conferences. She also collaborates with nationally touring folk/rock musician Ellis, co-managing her record company Rubberneck Records. Terri applies her social work training in her music career, and she is known for her passionate commitment to helping artists reach their full potential. In addition to coaching musicians and helping them to set goals and action plans, Terri has taught workshops at several festivals and music conferences throughout North America.

Julie Portman, winner of a New York Obie, has directed, performed and written for the professional theatre for 30 years. She is founder and artistic director of Ki Theatre. The art of story is central to Julie’s work as a writer, theatre artist and teacher. She has written five plays inspired by true stories. More than 300 productions of these plays have been presented nationally and internationally. Believing that everyone has a unique story to tell and the need for that story to be heard, Julie offers Life Stories Workshops. The workshops teach people of all backgrounds how to write and share their own stories and participate in a process that builds community. Julie's most recent play inspired by people's true stories, Three Roses, is the centerpiece of The Rose Project, a coalition of organizations gathered to address issues of violence. The play was also recently made into a PBS television broadcast (and video) directed by Academy Award winner Paul Wagner.

Justin Roth is a nationally touring singer/songwriter/acoustic guitarist and has released four independent CDs as well as being a core contributer to an instrumental solo guitar album produced for Target Stores, entitled Lifescapes - Solo Guitar, which has sold over 70,000 copies nationwide. He has shared the stage with Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, David Wilcox, Martin Sexton among others.

In 1991, Alan started the folk music listserv, and later organized the first Internet Quartet Songwriters Showcase, a tour that took 24 songwriters to 11 cities in the Northeast in a total of 66 concerts. Alan has written for several music magazines including Dirty Linen and Sing Out! and has taught seminars on the internet for musicians at national and regional Folk Alliance conferences, the Kerrville Folk Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Christine Lavin’s Martha’s Vineyard Singer Songwriter Retreat, and of course, our own Song School.

"I would rather be listening to a good song than be doing anything else. Songs change lives. They can give our days and nights an almost dreamy quality. I want to be as much a part of that as I can. That's why I write." Winner of The 2005 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase, Kathrin Shorr's songs have been featured on the television series Joan of Arcadia, Beautiful People, and Dawson's Creek. Living in Los Angeles with her husband and co-writer, Tim Burlingame, she composes and sings for film, television and commercials. Honored with ASCAP's prestigious Sammy Cahn Lyricist Award, she has performed with Colin Hay (Men at Work), Kelly Joe Phelps, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) and Shawn Colvin.

Moira Smiley works internationally as a composer-vocalist. Based in Los Angeles, she leads her fiery roots vocal-band, Moira Smiley & VOCO, travels the world as a soloist in early and traditional music and creates new work with dance, theatre and film.   Moira was born in Vermont, moved to Indiana to pursue a piano performance degree at IU School of Music, and finished with a degree in Early Music Vocal Performance, having studied voice with Thomas Binkley, Paul Elliott, Paul Hillier and Alan Bennett. She taught a semester at University of Birmingham (UK), toured and recorded with the acclaimed Theatre of Voices, Fretwork Consort of Viols, The Dufay Collective, Sinfonye and The Concord Ensemble. In 2001 and 2002, she won a Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship for Medieval Music, given by the Sequentia Ensemble, and recorded Disc three of the Complete Hildegard Works with Sinfonye (Celestial Harmonies).  More recently, she sings the role of "Sorceress" in Purcell's opera "Dido & Aeneas" with Musica Angelica to open The Getty Villa. Moira was 'the voice' for BBC/PBS Sir David Attenborough's famous "The Life of Birds" and Marie Antoinette’s voice in feature film "The Affair of the Necklace,”  She continues to record for various other film and television productions.Moira’s  been writing music since the age of six – focusing on voices-as-instruments, and in harmony.  Her recent commissions have been by choral ensembles, dance and theatre companies.  In Fall, 2006 she will premiere two voice & movement pieces with TripDance Theatre at the venerable Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles.

Amy Speace was propelled onto the national stage in 2006 when Judy Collins heard her sing and handpicked Amy’s “Songs For Bright Street” to release on her own imprint, Wildflower Records. Called “a superior example of stunning music at its best...country-folk that is illuminating and effortlessly accessible" (The Verve), the album received widespread critical praise, including landing in the Top 10 for many weeks on the US Folk and Roots charts.  In 2007 “Bright Street” was released by Wildflower/Ryko in Europe and ended up on many European Best of 2007 lists and Amy has spent the past 2 years touring both the US and Europe, sharing the stage with Ian Hunter, Judy Collins, Little Feat among others.  WFUV, NYC’s main AAA radio station, recently named Amy in its “Top 16 To Watch in 2008”.  Based in NYC, Amy originally started out as an actress/director/playwright, having spent 2 years with The National Shakespeare Company acting and teaching, then running her own Off-Off Broadway theater company, while acting in television and films. A guest appearance at Club Sine (where Jeff Buckley was playing later that night) led to an offer for a headline slot and she never looked back. Last year she was nominated by the International Folk Alliance as “Emerging Artist Of The Year”.  She was invited to contribute the title track to “Born To The Breed”, a tribute CD to Judy Collins, which also features Chrissie Hynde, Shawn Colvin, Rufus Wainwright. Amy’s follow up to “Bright Street” will be released Summer of 2008 and was recorded and engineered by rock legend Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Active).

Songpoet/percussionist Annie Wenz is a multi instrumentalist, folk-roots artist & humanitarian activist who has traveled 25 countries & performed throughout the world "bringing people together through music". Her experiences span the spectrum, from performing/teaching as diplomatic guest at earthquake zone refugee camps & medical schools in Pakistan, to "New Zealand's Millennium Celebration", festivals & arts centers in Costa Rica & Germany, jazz clubs & theater productions in Sweden, the far-off corners of Thailand, Vietnam, Spain, Bali & Mexico, as well as throughout the US!  Annie is known for her unique way of blending contemporary sounds with roots/traditional & multi-cultural influences & funky rhythms, accompanying herself or sitting in with others on guitar, piano, indigenous flutes & percussion instruments. She has shared performances & soundtracks with (her former band members!) Senegalize talking drum wizard Massamba Djop (also of Baba Mal's band), percussionist Jose Gonzalez of Puerto Rico, "Viva Quetzal's" Eugenio Huanca, Guy DeVito ("Steppenwolf"), & London's Robert Dean (Sinead O'Connor's guitarist). Her songs are inspired by her many journeys... kayaking, motorcycling & backpacking around the world, working as a registered nurse, rafting guide, activist and a teacher. Known best for her "story songs", Annie has collaborated with the likes of Author Dr Jerri Nielsen of the NY Times best selling Book & Movie "Ice Bound", & Boyd Award winning historical novelist Robert Macomber.  She brings her grant winning workshops to songwriters, educators, health practitioners, accompanists & folks who just want to have fun! Annie has 6 recordings to her credit on her own indie label "Island Gypsy" and she is in the process of recording/writing for an upcoming CD about "Biker Chicks, Road Dust & Wandering Gypsies"

Brendan has worked with songwriters and publishers for most of her career.  After a brief stint as a publicist after graduating from the Ohio State School of Journalism, she went on to run her own independent music publishing company and was later West Coast Creative Director for Motown’s publishing arm, Jobete Music.   As Assistant Vice President/Creative at ASCAP’s Los Angeles membership office, which she joined in 1989, Brendan has been involved with a number of projects which include producing the nationally-known Quiet On The Set showcase series which she began in 1991; co- producing the ASCAP Pop Music Awards (which has bestowed honors upon such icons as Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne); coordinating the Lester Sill Songwriters Workshop (whose guests have included people like Sir George Martin, Linda Perry and Jonatha Brooke) as well as a range of other activities designed to discover, educate, nurture and develop songwriters.  She has initiated ASCAP’s sponsorship in a number of national events such as the Newport Folk Festival. Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest and Song School.  

Bill Nash is a 13 year veteran of the Rocky Mountain Song school and has been a guitarist for the past 36 years, with 32 years of teaching experience under his belt. He has been mentoring guitar students at the Song School for the past 5 years, in a one on one basis under his canopy. He teaches fingerstyle guitar technique (mostly three finger Travis style) and also instructs students on the use of altered tunings, capo use, assorted other guitar techniques and music theory. More recently, he has been working on cutting edge guitar technique, using cut capos, multiple cut capos, altered tunings, and altered tunings with multiple capos. One of his songs even uses 4 capos, in DADGAD tuning, and each capo is critical to performing the song. He also works with songwriters on polishing their melodies, chord choices in their songs, and honing their musical ideas.

Siobhán Quinn received the 2006 WAMMIE award for Best Folk-Traditional Vocalist, has been a 2007 Kerrville New Folk Finalist (with Michael Bowers), a top 5 Boston Folk Festival songwriting Finalist, and Master Class vocal teacher at the Swannanoa Gathering, Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Song School (Planet Bluegrass), and Summersongs. She was born of immigrant parents, and is a force and talent that should not be ignored.  Siobhan released “Dreamers, Lovers and Outlaws” with husband and music partner Michael Bowers in late April 2007.  She previously released “Two Rivers” (1999) & “Grande Affaire” (ltd ed., 2003) with Ben Murray and an EP with the UK band Boneshaker (2005).  She has toured through the U.S./U.K., and has had airplay on four continents.  In addition to writing and performing, Siobhán has nearly two decades of professional arts and cultural administration experience in both public and private institutions including museum, cultural, arts center, educational, funding and presenting institutions. With an expertise is in jump-starting programs through evaluation, strategic planning, and the development of arts related community & educational programming, she has assisted individual artists with programmatic/artist-as-product business plans, booking, and has nearly two decades of experience developing program proposals for arts grant applications.

Presenting music which has been referred to as "folk with an attitude" and "urban campfire music," Michael Bowers is rapidly becoming known as a first rate songwriter and engaging, talented performer. His lyrics range from the heartfelt to humorous, always with both feet on the ground, but with eyes toward the horizon. The music he writes shows influences of blues, jazz, country, and the best of the singer-songwriter tradition.

Carmen Allgood is the first DJ in America to produce and air an independent music radio show, starting in 1986, before it was cool. She currently produces and hosts the world's biggest syndicated independent radio programs, and has featured over 15,000 artists on her shows: The Colorado Wave, Indie Music Wave, and Indie Traffic Jam. With more than 100 affiliates, the Wave and Jam are heard around the globe, with millions of listeners tuning in to hear what's happening in our world of unsigned bands. Carmen has been a guest panelist and speaker for numerous workshops designed to help the independent artist get their own radio airplay. She takes you on a well-organized, simple process to bring your music to the biggest playing field of all through commercial, non-comm, streaming, on demand, podcasting, cable, mobile and satellite radio. She is currently the Marketing Director for Indie 104 ~ iRadio LA, named 'Best Internet Station of the Year 2006', which plays music by unsigned bands 24/7/365. Carmen was also named 'Best Radio Host' and The Colorado Wave 'Best Local Radio Show 2005'. The 'How To Get Your Own Radio Airplay Workshop' is designed to give aspiring musicians the confidence and means to break on through to the other side of the music business, and share their music with a global audience.