{"id":1742,"date":"2016-07-28T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaredford.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T09:41:57","slug":"awards-in-hollywood-courage-best-original-song-festivals-and-radio-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Awards in Hollywood, Courage Best Original Song, Festivals and Radio Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Breeze-and-Lisa-Awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1750\" src=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Breeze-and-Lisa-Awards-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Breeze and Lisa Awards\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Breeze-and-Lisa-Awards-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Breeze-and-Lisa-Awards-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Breeze-and-Lisa-Awards.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some exciting news ~\u00a0my incredibly talented student Breeze \u00a0has just returned from LA where she won many awards at the\u00a0World Championships of Performing Arts, an\u00a0international performing arts talent competition in Hollywood!<\/p>\n<p>Among her many awards, Breeze won\u00a04 Gold, 2 Silver and Overall Champion twice.\u00a0 She also won an Industry Award, meaning she is most likely to make it in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also really proud that &#8216;Courage&#8217; her recent debut single that I wrote, won Best Original Song.\u00a0 As a songwriter, to gain recognition for your songs is the biggest thrill. Courage was also recently played on BBC Introducing so it&#8217;s all really exciting that the song is continuing to receive recognition.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also been continuing to promote \u2018Another Place and Time\u2019 which has earned more lovely reviews including from Songwriting Magazine, Outline Magazine and the respected roots singer\/songwriter magazine R2 who have described it as \u2018classy songwriting and a heartfelt vocal delivery.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I recently released the second single from it called \u2018Remember Me\u2019 which has had airplay on various folk, Americana and country shows including Baylen Leonard&#8217;s The Front Porch on Amazing Radio. Here\u2019s an acoustic unplugged version in a very cool music room:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lisa Redford &#039;Remember Me&#039; Acoustic\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXV9jpbNNS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of my columns, writing to a brief, is also\u00a0included\u00a0in the excellent summer issue of <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SongwritingMagazine\/\">Songwriting Magazine<\/a>\u00a0which also includes features on <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheLumineers\/\">The Lumineers<\/a>, <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NerinaPallotOfficial\/\">Nerina Pallot<\/a>, <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottmatthewfriend\/\">Scott Matthew<\/a> and tons of tips for musicians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/on-stage.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/songwritingmag-contents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1752\" src=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/songwritingmag-contents-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"songwritingmag contents\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/songwritingmag-contents-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/songwritingmag-contents.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Festival season is in full swing and I started my festival appearances by playing again at Dubs in the Hall festival in the beautiful surroundings of Holt Hall. There\u2019s always a lovely family atmosphere there.<\/p>\n<p>Another festival with a wonderful atmosphere is Latitude which was excellent as always and so much fun on a particularly sultry day and evening. Among the many exciting and eclectic bands I saw, the highlight was seeing one of my favourite bands New Order headline on the\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2055147341\">Sunday<\/span>\u00a0night, my legs were very tired afterwards from dancing!<\/p>\n<p>In tribute I\u2019ve done an acoustic cover of \u2018Bizarre Love Triangle\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Bizarre Love Triangle&quot; New Order acoustic cover\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4DJCx_AUOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Upcoming festival appearances include another VW festival, White Noise near Thetford where I\u2019ll be closing the Woodland stage on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2055147342\">Sunday 7th August<\/span>.\u00a0White Noise is the first VM and music festival established in Norfolk over 13 years ago and is a truly independent\u00a0festival that celebrates\u00a0diverse live music and\u00a0provides many free creative activities for children.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2055147343\">August 21st<\/span>\u00a0I\u2019ll then be playing on the Soapbox Stage at Folk East which is held at the picturesque Suffolk estate of Glemhall Hall.\u00a0 Described by The Guardian as \u201cone of the best world music, roots and folk festivals in the UK, for 2016\u201d Folk East is in its fifth year and among its usual exceptional headliners in the world of folk and roots is Eliza Carthy who I supported at OPEN last year. I\u2019m really excited to be performing on The SoapBox Stage for the first time as the stage, run by creative producer Amy Wragg,\u00a0an independent Music &amp; Spoken Word promoter, is renowned for showcasing a mix of new and established artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/folkeast-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/folkeast-poster-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"folkeast poster\" width=\"263\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some exciting news ~\u00a0my incredibly talented student Breeze \u00a0has just returned from LA where she won many awards at the\u00a0World Championships of Performing Arts, an\u00a0international performing arts talent competition in Hollywood! Among her many awards, Breeze won\u00a04 Gold, 2 Silver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/?p=1742\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[531,875,874,654,6,7,21,8,321,3,605,542,631,89,40,207,75,5,384],"tags":[325,869,855,851,842,878,633,880,879,872,876,877],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-competition","category-contest","category-country-music-2","category-female-artist","category-interviews","category-lisa-redford","category-live-performance","category-magazine","category-music","category-music-advice","category-music-blog-2","category-music-festival-music","category-music-festival","category-new-video","category-online-release","category-recording","category-singersongwriter","category-uk-tour-dates-music","tag-bbc-introducing","tag-breeze-redwine","tag-courage","tag-cover","tag-folk-east","tag-hollywood","tag-latitude-festival","tag-new-order","tag-r2-magazine","tag-reviews","tag-soapbox-stage","tag-wcopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaredford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}