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

Our next Expo will take place Thursday February 25th through Saturday February 27th, 2010 in fabulous Santa Ynez Wine Country (near Santa Barbara, CA). Click here to view and print out the Brochure/Registration PDF.

This just in— Chuck Cannon IS coming to the Santa Barbara Expo!

Alissa's back...! Alissa Moreno co-wrote the Grammy nominated hit "Every Day" for Rascal Flatts, and her song "Far From Here" is the theme for the Lifetime series "Army Wives"...currently putting the finishing touches on a new record with Vertical Horizon lead singer Matt Scannell.

and Tim Fagan... that lucky one...returns with fantastic new songs, poems, tricks and treasures! Fresh off the after party circuit no doubt!

Jill Sobule— a special talent not to be missed anytime you can catch her...she is more than a songwriter, more than an entertainer. She's a poet, activist and a comedienne! ALWAYS a hit at the Expo!

Al Anderson... our soulful friend Big Al returns to take us on yet another trip around the sun...here's your chance to meet a songwriting stalwart...

Welcome Brice Long... Brice Long was signed to Columbia Records in 2005 and landed on the Billboard Hot Country charts that year with "Anywhere but Here" (also released by Chris Cagle a year later). Long co-wrote Gary Allan's 2004 Number One single "Nothing On but the Radio" and Randy Houser's debut single "Anything Goes." Welcome to the Expo Brice Long!

LA hit songtress — "LA Song (Out of This Town"), "Delicious Surprise" — Beth Hart makes the Expo! (We've been tryin' for awhile!) Back with a new record full of life and love, 37 Days, this is a rare, unexpected, and fabulous addition to this year's Santa Barbara event...Beth will be conducting a songwriting workshop on Friday afternoon at 1:30 pm...don't miss this chance to meet Beth Hart!

See Expo Success Stories...more coming...

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If you cannot print out the brochure, contact us with your name and mailing address and we will send you the brochure via USPS.

Just click on the link above to see or print out the Registration Form. Or, call Jim Attebery at 970.259.9747 if you have any questions at all!

Did YOU Showcase at our last Expo in Colorado Springs? (See if you are here...this is a playlist that changes...THANK YOU Algie Powers!)

See Our Recent "Write With A Hit-Maker" Songwriting Contest Winners!
(Listen to some of Jim and Jack's favs here.)

Here's what the Expo's all about...gang, can you smell those 3am Hardees burgers? (Bag of 20 in the corner left)

Congratulations to Alissa Moreno (another contest winner!) who has been rewarded for her talent and hard work with a Universal Music Group deal on the heels of her huge Rascal Flatts hit, "Every Day," written with Music Row Hit Man Jeffrey Steele, AT THE EXPO!

"...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 vacuum...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)

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]

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