Customized promotion and publicity for musicians, labels, events, and more.
about loretta sawyer promotions
Loretta Sawyer Promotions provides music promotion and publicity for artists, record labels and event producers. With offices in Chicago, IL and Lexington, KY, we provide multi-media contacts with extensive national connections. Our focus is primarily on folk, americana, bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, country, rock, and acoustic music, but we also work with other performing arts as well as writers and visual artists.
Loretta Sawyer is a PR/Media specialist and artist promotions agent based in Chicago, Illinois. She brings over 15 years of direct marketing and promotional experience to the music business. Her credits include over 200 published articles in national magazines, association publications and newspapers, including Beat USA, Crossroads, Songwriters Monthly, Bluegrass Now, Bluegrass Unlimited, Bluegrass Music Profiles, NEA/Today, and many others. She previewed shows for the Alpine Valley Music Theater. She is the former editor of New Accountant, Real Estate News and Chicago Bride Magazines.
Loretta has worked with several national artists and has written liner notes for releases by Karl Shifflett and Big Country and Higher Vision. She has contributed her talents to environmental causes, and her efforts on behalf of land preservation have gained her written acknowledgements from President Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Loretta Sawyer Promotions is also contributing national publicity and promotion for Michael Johnathon's WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour and the national public television broadcast of the Walden Play.
Springing towards new music adventures...| March 7, 2012
Spring is just around the corner… music events and news are sprouting!
Tom Irwin's Sangamon Songs has charted on the Illinois Roots Music and the Folk DJ Charts. All 12 Tracks have received airplay in North America since the release to Radio Jan 17th via Loretta Sawyer Promotions. Thank you DJs and Stations!
Michael Johnathon and several of the arias from his original opera "WOODY: For the People" were the focus of the nationally broadcast program THE STORY with Dick Gordon (American Public Media).
Noam Pikelny, who was awarded the first Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in banjo and bluegrass, credits his first instructor Mark Dvorak and Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music on The WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour…you can view the broadcast online at www.woodsongs.com and click on archives show #648.
Pinecastle Records is pleased to announce that it has signed The Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show. Their upcoming album Take Me Back will be released summer 2012. See our More Musicians page for more info!
Loretta Sawyer Promotions is making plans to attend the Folk Alliance Region Midwest FARMette conference in April and the South East Region Folk Alliance (SERFA) Conference in May.
More information soon on the new Left Field Sounds, Inc. under the direction of Loretta Sawyer.... Left Field Sounds, Inc. is grassroots approach to connecting Folk, Bluegrass, and Americana/Roots Music artists with venues to increase their live audience.
Happy Spring!
Lo
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Welcome to the new website for Loretta Sawyer Promotions and to my blog “The Lo Down.” Here I will share with you my adventures as I travel down the road of music and life.
Visit often for my updates, check out the great bands listed here, and watch for my pictures.
Lo
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