"...this is my first time at the Durango thing and it just BLOWS ME AWAY, the opportunity that is here for you all...it's just stunning...I operated in a vacumm...here you have the opportunity to hook up with maybe the person that will change both your lives...I just think it's absolutely amazing..." —Hit songwriter Bob DiPiero (2006)

THANKS, THANKS and MORE THANKS...to everyone who helped make this year's Santa Barbara Wine Country Expo one of the best ever!

Now...here we go again! Join us in beautiful Asheville, NC May 29-31! Click here to print out the Registration Form (PDF). If you cannot print out the form, contact us, and we will mail you the brochure. (Don't forget to give us your mailing address!)

Alternately you may see jpg images of the brochure here: PG 1 PG 2.

The 12-year old Expo's FIRST EVER BACK EAST event will be held at the spectacular Asheville Crowne Plaza Resort. For details about the hotel, click on their link, to reserve your room call: 800-733-3211 or the hotel direct line at 828-254-3211. (Be sure to mention that you are with the Durango Songwriters Expo so you will get our special group rate.)

You may also call event producer Jim Attebery at 970-259-9747 if you have questions not answered here or on the downloadable Registration Form. And REGISTER EARLY if you can. Interest is exceedingly high for our first event within striking distance of so many great music regions!

Finally, please make sure you sign up to receive our Great Connections Newsletter as this is how we will make our announcements regarding the Asheville, event. (There are always updates leading up to the Expo!)

This is your chance! Don't miss Asheville '08! It will surely be a memorable time and one not to be missed by anyone passionate about great original music!

Small Songwriting Events like the DSE can be a BIG PLUS. —Jim Attebery

Never been to one of our EXPOs and want to know what it's all about? Listen to mrJack's conversation below with someone who's "been there, done that"...many times...hit songwriter, Walt Aldridge.

2005 Interview, Part 1 [25.56]

Part 2 [17.36]

Songwriters—Inside Information on HOW THIS BUSINESS WORKS (and how you can get more involved!) for less than FIVE cents a day!

Successful songwriters write good songs. To write good songs you have to listen to, hang around with, and ultimately write with good songwriters. How can you do that? The Expo. Since 1996.

But what if you just can't go to The Expo? Are you shut out of this very valuable mine of information that ultimately you will have to know to succeed? No.

That's where DurangoSong.com comes in.

You'll get many thousands of dollars worth of inside information on how the songwriting businesss really works...and is constatnly evolving...direct from the people who are DOING IT right now. Recorded Panel Discusssions, Workhops and Interviews, hours of them, that you'll listen to and learn from for the next year for less than FIVE cents a day!

Year after year, truly some of the greatest songwriters of our age attend the DSE to teach, inspire, rub shoulders with (and some say learn from) our attendees, and of course, perform their magical songs. Here's just a sampling from past EXPOs:

Rickie Lee Jones, Rodney Crowell, J.D. Souther, Jimmy Webb, Jack Tempchin, Gary Baker, Walt Aldridge, Al Anderson, Jeffrey Steele, Kostas, Gary Nicholson, Shawn Mullins, Jim Lauderdale, Steve Forbert, David Baerwald, Meredith Brooks, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Glen Phillips, Kim Richey, Kimmie Rhodes, Marv Green, Tia Sillers and Mark Selby, Lisa Loeb, Colin Hay, Chuck Cannon, Hillary Lindsey, Steve Dorff, Bob DiPiero, Liz Hengber, Michelle Shocked...and so many more!

For just $12.97 a year, you can access the DSE's BackStage Members Only Panel Discussions, Workshops, Interviews and MORE...not from just one event...from SIX YEARS OF EXPOS...and the library is constantly growing.

You know what? When you join...and listen right now...you'll get your money's worth. Even if you never come back. These people that come to the Expo are that good.This stuff is difference-making stuff.

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