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SDSG’s 23rd Annual
Song Contest
SongWritersNotesThe San Diego Songwriters
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3952 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, D413 San Diego, CA 92117
2014 SDSG Board of DirectorsPresident Diane WatersVice President
Mike WojniakTreasurer John PapeSecretary Stacy Kim Johnston
Director of Technology John Pape
Advisors Tim Mudd Bridget Brigitte Sandi Shaner Mark Charles
Hattersley
Photographer Steve Covault
In this edition...
SDSG 2014 Song ContestPage One
2015 SDSG Board NomineesPage Two
2014 Contest RulesPage Two
2014 Contest JudgesPage Three
SDSG SponsorsPage Four
32 Years Supporting San Diego Songwriters Volume XXVIII •
November 3, 2014
Thank you for entering the San Diego Songwriters Guild’s 23rd
Annual Song Contest. The evening will be filled with great music,
and we encourage you to listen respectfully to each entry. We hope
that you will have the chance to meet and speak with more than a
few like-minded individuals tonight, but ask that you please
conduct conversations outside of the listening room. This is the
third year we have offered online MP3 submissions, and many
songwriters took advantage of this method of entering. We hope you
found the online submission process straightforward and simple.
Special thanks goes to SDSG Director of Technology John Pape for
his tireless efforts in devel-oping and implementing the online
entry process and maintaining the SDSG website. Tonight, judging
will start shortly after 7:00. During the course of the eve-ning,
the judges will listen to and score each entry. When the judges
finish listening, their scores will be tabulated and the winners
announced. Please re-member, entrants (or a representative) must be
present at the awards presen-tation to win. Entrants who are not
present or personally represented at the awards presentation will
be disqualified from consideration for prizes and awards. So it is
important that you or a representative is in attendance when the
judging wraps up this evening and that you initial the registration
sheet that will be available at that time. SDSG welcomes
volunteers... this organization is run entirely by unpaid staff,
and your help in making us stronger and better would be greatly
ap-preciated. Please feel free to approach a Board Member tonight,
or contact us via our website, sdsongwriters.org, if you would like
to become more deeply involved in the Guild. We also encourage
visitors to join SDSG. Membership dues allow the Guild to conduct
our member meetings, so please join. We will be conducting a
drawing to give away a few prizes before we an-nounce the Contest
winners. Make sure you get your ticket, one free to each attendee,
so you have a chance to win a prize.
We appreciate your support and that of SDSG Members, the Board,
and our Sponsors, and hope you find the Contest enjoyable.
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Mike Wojniak Diane WatersPresident Vice President
John Pape Stacy Kim JohnstonTreasurer Secretary
SDSG Board of Directors 2015 Nominees
• Song entries will be judged by a committee consisting of
in-dustry professionals and songwriters. Judges will score entries
on five criteria: lyrics, melody, form, originality and
presen-tation. All styles of music are eligible, but instrumentals
will receive no lyric score.
• Each entry must be the contestant’s original work. •
Contestants and their collaborators retain all rights to works
submitted, but entries will not be returned by SDSG.• Contest is
open to amateur songwriters, meaning one who has
not been employed as a staff writer for a publishing company,
who is not being paid for such services, and/or who has not
received more than $2,500 in song royalty income within the past
year. No song previously recorded and released through major
national distribution in any country is eligible.
• Past Grand Prize (Platinum) winners of the San Diego
Song-writer’s Guild Song Contest are not eligible to enter the
con-test. All other previous entrants are eligible.
• The contest is open to songwriters who are 18 years of age or
older on the date of entry submission. Any entrant who is a minor
in his or her jurisdiction of legal residence must submit
written permission from his or her parent or legal guardian to
participate in the contest.
• Entrants (or a representative) must be present at the awards
presentation on November 3, 2014 to win. Entrants who are not
present or personally represented at the awards presentation will
be disqualified from consideration for prizes and awards.
• Prize winning songs from prior SDSG Song Contests may not be
entered. This does not include songs from SDSG Perform-ing
Songwriters contests.
• Winners are responsible for division of prizes and taxes.• No
more than 70 entries will be accepted.• A maximum of two of entries
will be accepted per writer. Co-
writes count proportionately toward this total. (For example: an
entry with two writers counts as 1/2 of one entry for each writer.)
SDSG reserves the right to limit entries further.
• Entries that violate these rules may be disqualified, and
submit-ted fees will not be returned. All judges’ decisions are
final.
• SDSG is not responsible for late, lost, damaged, misdirected,
postage due, stolen, or misappropriated entries.
SAN DIEGO SONGWRITERS GUILD2014 SONG CONTEST RULES
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2014 SDSG Song Contest Judges
Marc “Mookie” Kaczor is the voice of indie artists in Southern
California. He is a warm and entertaining on-air personality who
has hosted a plethora of new music shows in his years of on-air
experience. Among his ongoing gigs, Mookie is the host of The
Homegrown Hour on 102.1 KPRi. Join Mookie every Sunday at 9 PM when
you will hear local music from San Diego’s amazing music scene....
maybe one of your own songs!
A native of England, Peter Dyson came to San Diego from Austin,
Tex-
as in 2004. The third owner in Studio West’s forty year history,
Peter spear-headed the studio expansion and remodeling project in
2005, determined to bring to fruition his vision of a world-class,
fully integrated San Diego-based recording studio, comparable to
the top facilities in Los Angeles. His thir-teen years of
professional expertise in strategic business planning, leader-ship
training and human resources for Motorola’s Semiconductor Group in
Austin and his passion for music have uniquely equipped Peter to
assemble a top notch team of engineers and producers at Studio
West, and to identify and develop services to better meet the needs
of clients. As a drummer, Pe-ter has played and recorded with bands
in both England and Austin, and has a musical taste that is as
diverse as the artists who have recorded at Studio West.
Mark Spiro is an iconic American Songwriter. He is an
established, award winning producer, recording artist, and
accomplished musician, with a career that spans over two decades.
Among his many accomplishments are 45 gold and platinum records,
and eight solo albums. An Encinitas resi-dent, Mark’s songs and
productions are represented on records that have sold over 100
million copies world-wide. Mark’s songs have been cut by artists
such as Selena, John Waite, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick, Julian
Lennon, & Heart. His TV and fi lm credits include “Top Gun”,
“One Tree Hill” and “Fame”. Mark’s daughters Ruby and Summer are
signed to Seany Re-cords and active in the national songwriting
scene as well as in live theater.
San Diego resident and Patrick Henry High School alum Craig
Goldy is best known for serving as DIO’s guitarist for several diff
erent stints from 1986 through 2010, appear-ing on several records
and touring the world. Before DIO, he played in the bands
Vengeance, Rough Cutt, and Giuf-fria. His writing credits include
contributions to the cata-logues of all of these bands and David
Lee Roth, as well as his own solo material. In addition to
continuing to record and perform with diff erent bands and
projects, Craig is ac-tive with Destiny Bridge, a program which
enables unsigned
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