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Really Hot News 

• SongU.com celebrates its second birthday!  SongU.com is a state-of-the-art e-learning site where you can take online songwriting courses by a faculty of award-winning songwriters and best-selling authors, pitch your songs and be connected with other writers.  Learn more about it. 

• Sara and Danny were contacted by the producer of the NBC daytime reality TV show "Starting Over" to work with one of the cast on their songwriting as well as write a theme song for the television show.  For more information on the show, you can visit the show's website.

• Sara's song, "Home To You" is out on John Michael Montgomery's greatest hits album on Warner Bros. Records.

• Sara and Danny's song, "Arlington" has just been released on the new "Home Free" CD to benefit American veterans.  The 11 song CD features songs by T. Graham Brown, Ricochet, Moe Bandy and others.

• The Broadway musical "Urban Cowboy" receives a Tony nomination for "Best Original Score" (woo-hoo!) and "Best Musical" from the Outer Critics Circle.  You can read all about it on www.tonyawards.com. 

• One of our long-standing members in our Writer's Group, Diona Devincenzi wins the grand prize in the first ever Lilith Fair songwriting contest!!!  Diona along with co-writer Carol Hasche will perform their winning song "Airplane Light" at a future Lilith Fair concert.  They were presented with a check for $25,000 and a plaque by Mary Chapin Carpenter at the ASCAP awards dinner during CMA week.  Congratulations Diona -- we're proud of you!

Talented indie artist, Corrinne May was our last chatroom guest.  A copy of the transcript of her informative chat is available here.

About Corrinne May:

Corrinne May's winning melody was the perfect match to the lyric posted by the two Caroles for a songwriting challenge issued by the music industry web-site TONOS.com, founded by legendary songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, composer/producer David Foster and songwriter/producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. Corrinne is no stranger to songwriting contests, having won her first at 15. Over the years, she has added wins from the Unisong International Songwriting contest, the Berklee Songwriting and Berklee Performer/Songwriter contest. She is currently based in Los Angeles and has recently released her first album. Her songs have been heard on Lifetime TV's series "The Division" and on ABC's network TV drama "One Life To Live".  They have also been recorded by artists in Asia and have found their way to the airwaves of Belgium, Holland and Illinois, Singapore and Taiwan. She has also been featured in showcases held by the Nashville Songwriters' Association, the Los Angeles Women in Music (LAWIM) and was a participant in the ASCAP 2000 Lester Sil Songwriter's workshop, a workshop whose famous alumni include Grammy-award winning songwriter Diane Warren.

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