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Canadian singer-songwriter David Hein’s music is a bit hard to pigeon-hole, and the themes of his songs are certainly not run-of-the-mill. Descriptive words like eclectic, quirky, entertaining, high-energy, original acoustic folk-rock spring to mind. Add award-winning to that list.
Hein was named the winner of the 2008 Susquehanna Music & Arts Festival (SMAF) Songwriting Contest in Darlington, Maryland on May 9. He won over the judges with his cleverly worded, intimate ballad “Subway Sparrow” (which also was also the runner-up for best song of the month in February on songwriteruniverse.com) and enticed many in the audience to sing along on the refrain of the more up-tempo, rapid-fire-paced “Jetpack.”
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Winners in 19 categories were named this month from among more than 15,000 entries in the 2007 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). For the first time in its history, a majority of winners — including all three in the Americana category, two of three in the folk/singer-songwriter category, and one of three in the AAA category — came from outside the U.S.
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