| November 13, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm | ||
| November 14, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Todd Cerney
Todd has been living and working in Nashville since 1974. “Good Morning Beautiful,” his song on the first album by Steve Holy, was # 1 on the country charts for 5 weeks. It also was used in the Jennifer Lopez movie, “Angel Eyes.” and was one of only four songs to win an ASCAP Film & TV award for “Most Performed Song Featured in a Motion Picture”. Etta James’ Grammy winning CD, “Let’s Roll,” includes Todd’s song, ”Blues is My Business,” which was also featured in the HBO program, “The Sopranos.”
Awards everywhere… a Grammy nominee in the Best Country Song category for “I’ll Still Be Loving You” recorded by Restless Heart and won the ASCAP Country Song of the Year for the same song in 1987.
His songs have been recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad English, Eddie Money, Cheap Trick, Loverboy, The Four Tops / Aretha Franklin, Martika, Ty Herndon, and many more.
Casey Kelly
Casey’s many hit songs include 1’s: “Anyone Who Isn’t Me Tonight” (Grammy Nominated) by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, “Soon” by Tanya Tucker (Grammy Nominated), “Somewhere Down the Line” by T G Shepherd and country music standard, “The Cowboy Rides Away” by George Strait.”
He’s worked as a session player and singer, and performs in clubs and concerts for audiences in Europe and throughout the US. He’s a workshop contributor and songwriters’ rights activist- am a member of ASCAP and NSAI. In all that spare time, he mentors the NSAI Regional Workshops in Providence, RI; Atlanta, GA and Pensacola, FL. He worked us into this hectic schedule-and we are lucky to have him back.
Leslie Ellis
Leslie has released two critically acclaimed solo albums; “Standing at the Moment” and “Leslie Ellis” on Working Jane Music.
She shared how “The Flyer Song” video came about…
“My friend Kip has an email pen pal named Captain Scott Berg, who just happens to be Second In Command of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group. Two months ago, Kip sent him an mp3 of my song “The Flyer Song”; thinking he might identify with some of the sentiments in the lyrics.
Captain Berg liked the song and my simple recording of it enough to play it for his air wing and to, based on their positive reaction, commission a video of the song. So the media department of the “Stennis” and a very talented man named MC3 E. Jayce Fabrizio made a beautiful and moving video using their footage from the ship (some stock and some shot just for the video).
These guys are currently somewhere in the Persian Gulf and are risking their lives for us and our freedom everyday. With this video I’d like to pay tribute to them and to all our troops – here, there and everywhere: I thank you for all you do and I will pray for your safety always.
I’d also like to thank the families of the troops – for their undeniable gift of time…precious time away from their loved ones on our behalf. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Talent, heart, looks, brains-this group has that and more-come see for yourself. You’ll leave inspired.
