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Hank Sinatra
Presents the Songwriters Series continues to pioneer Internet
television broadcast with its weekly series being aired through
its web site www.songwritersseries.com. The Songwriters Series
aired its first two seasons on the Austin Music Network then
launched their own web broadcast through the help of Doug Watkins
and his Internet broadcast technology. The Songwriters Series
has now completed two full seasons of Internet television broadcast
and is in full swing for Season Five beginning in March 2008.
The Songwriters Series reached a milestone broadcasting to more
than 1/2 million unique users hitting the Songwriters Series
web page in its first season hosting their own Internet broadcast.
The Songwriters
Series continues its worldwide success featuring songwriters
from around the world including France, Iceland, Australia,
Canada, Great Britain and Germany pairing them with great songwriters
from Texas and throughout the country. The Songwriters Series
is a part of the independent music revolution changing the entertainment
industry today. The Songwriters Series features live performances
from songwriters playing with minimal accompaniment on our intimate,
outdoor production set located on ³Hankıs Place² in Austin,
TX.
The production
season lasts from March to November with a live outdoor concert
each month featuring 3-4 songwriters performing 30 minutes each.
Each show will re-run and/or be re-edited during the off-season
from December to March and all shows will be archived for the
Texas Barker History Museum. ³Hank Sinatra Presents² has been
televising and producing music shows since 1984 and has been
represented and distributed by Universal Music throughout America,
Europe, Asia and Australia. Richard May is a national award-winning
movie and television producer, director and songwriter.
We had Australian, now L.A. songwriter, Gilli Moon over to
perform one eventing so she wrote about it. Here's her recount:
So during
the days of Thurs and Fri we spent at the Austin Convention
Center at SXSW. It was a maze of booths, panel discussions and
people everywhere. Thurs night we drove out of town a bit to
Hank Sinatra's place to record my television appearance for
the Austin Music Network. Think: high tech video recording studio
meets country boy boonies-ville. This was a real trip and one
of the highlights of my Texas journey this time around. Hank's
house is a typical farm house in the sticks. His "cameramen"
wandered up the road in their checkered shirts, cowboy hats,
boots and cigarettes... and completely blew me away with their
amazingly professional camera work. They had the stage set up
outside with Xmas tree lights and some mood lighting. Richard
May (organizer) said "we have to wait till the sun sets more
before we film... we need just the right light and reflection."
Well ok....
So we waited. And it was totally worth it. They organized a
keyboard for me and I had a multi-camera shoot with Hank upstairs
in the living room switching and recording. The dogs were there,
the cats were there, the beer was popped, the locals cruised
over for a gander. the crickets began. It was intimate, and
down to earth. It reminded me of a bunch of my parents friends
in Wollombi Australia getting together for a smoke and a film
production. High tech outback! No airs, no pretence, just art
printed on film. Way to go! I watched the tape after and I couldn't
have asked for a better video.
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