Durango Songwriters Contest 2010 - Write With A Hitmaker

Posted by:  Durango Songwriter's Expo

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Summary

The Durango Songwriters Contest is the only song contest that offers the opportunity for the winners to write with proven, hit songwriters. Sonicbids member Hillary Hawn won the Pop category for the Santa Barbara Expo earlier this year and wrote with Tim Fagen, who won a Grammy for Jason Mraz's "Lucky". As an added prize, each winner receives a single song publishing deal./n/nThe Durango Songwriters Contest is the only song contest that offers the opportunity for the winners to write with proven, hit songwriters. Sonicbids member Hillary Hawn won the Pop category for the Santa Barbara Expo earlier this year and wrote with Tim Fagen, who won a Grammy for Jason Mraz's "Lucky".

For this year's Colorado expo, the Country category winner gets to write with Danny Myrick (co-writer of Jason Aldean smash "She's Country"). Pop winner gets to write with Tony Scalzo who wrote the #1 mainstream rock hit "The Way" for Fastball and other big hits. As an added prize, each winner receives a single song publishing deal, courtesy of Durango's friends in the publishing business. The publishing deal includes studio time to record a professional guitar or piano/vocal demo of the song written by the winner in each category. Song are judged by publishers, PRO executives, and hit songwriters.


The contest is presented by Durango Songwriters Expo, which has been supporting songwriters since 1996. Each Durango event is limited to 200 attendees with 30-40 top industry professionals. Click here to see some success stories.


From Lee Johnson, 2010-1 Country winner:

"After years of coming to these events [I've learned that's there's an opportunity] for songs that are uptempo, that have positive female-empowering lyrics...I now go through a regimented critiquing process [before pitching]. I take it to different organizations, I get lots of feedback, then we go produce a pro demo...by then we really feel we’ve tightened up the lyric, we’ve tightened up the chords, we’ve tightened up the melody. We have all the nuts and bolts of it...the Expo definitely helped me learn how to do that."