Track 1 off my new album ‘Love, Hope & Tyranny’ was recognized today by the Dallas Songwriters Association Song Contest. I submitted the song in the Americana category. Not only did the song win FIRST PLACE in the AMERICANA category, but it won the single GRAND PRIZE for best song in all categories. What an honor!

2014 DSA SONG CONTEST WINNERS
http://dsasongcontest.blogspot.it/

GRAND PRIZE
1. No Hiding Place by Lucia Comnes and Gawain Mathews, San Francisco, CA
2. Say That You Love by Gracie Lott, De Soto, TX
3. Something Just Clicks by James Bennett, Tulsa, OK

AMERICANA
1. No Hiding Place by Lucia Comnes and Gawain Mathews, San Francisco, CA
2. Over Space & Time by Nitanee Paris, Malibu, CA
3. Hold Me by Dickey Johnson, Dallas, Tx

Grand Prize includes $100 cash prize, a Casio Privia keyboard and recording time at Beaird Music Studios in Nashville, TN.

Many thanks to Roy Elkins and the Dallas Songwriters Association for this recognition.

Thanks to The North Bay Bohemian and San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook for the feature photos in advance of my concert at Studio 55 Marin. It was a great show! Here is a video of the closing song ‘Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone’ off my new album ‘Love, Hope & Tyranny’ slotted for release in early 2015.

On Sunday, March 16, 2014, Lucia Comnes was one of the 3 featured Bay Area fiddle players to be featured in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook/96-Hours cover article by Sam Whiting – “In Bay Area Jams, Fiddles Reign Supreme.’
Read the full article here –
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/At-Bay-Area-jams-fiddles-reign-supreme-5315897.php