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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.
A New Year Begins...| January 20, 2012
Entering the New Year brought news that Mark Dvorak’s Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me release positioned #64 on the Folk DJ 2011 list for the year. Time also made the 2011 top favorites individual lists for several DJ’s, out of the hundreds they receive. It has been a privilege for Loretta Sawyer Promotions to work with Mark Dvorak on this project. Check out the Mark Dvorak page here for the highlights of the promotional campaign. I also invite you to visit Mark Dvorak’s new website at markdvorak.com.
Loretta Sawyer Promotions is providing radio service distribution and press releases to print and social media for Tom Irwin's new release Sangamon Songs. On Sangamon Songs, singer-songwriter and folk musician Tom Irwin sets to music entries from an 1893 diary written by Harry Glen Ludlam, a teenager who lived on the Irwin farm in Sangamon County just outside Springfield, Illinois, from 1880 to 1894. For more information visit Tom Irwin’s page on the website here under More Musicians.
Kentucky friends: hope to see you February 9, 2012, when the Dean Osborne Band with Special Guest Mark Dvorak will be at Natasha’s in Lexington. Visit Natasha’s website at beetnik.com. You can also see them at Willis Music in Florence, KY on Saturday February 11, 2012.
Plans are being made to attend conferences, concerts and festivals... looking forward to the new music adventures 2012 will bring!
Lo
As the Year Ends...| December 13, 2011
As 2011 comes to a close I am thankful for the great year the music industry has given me.... the songwriters I have had the opportunity to work with, the conferences attended: FA Memphis, FARM and NERFA. Thank you to the artists who performed in "The Pitcher’s Mound" and "Time Ain’t Got Nothin On Me" showcase rooms hosted by Loretta Sawyer Promotions. Thank you to the venues for the stages, the DJs for the nationwide airplay and to the audiences for their continued support. There have been some very memorable moments shared between artist and audience raising their voices together in song.
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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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