To be considered for The Songwriter's Beat: 1) send a link to your music online via the webform to the right; 2) bring a CD to any Songwriter's Beat night in person or 3) send a CD to:
The Songwriter's Beat
West Street Records
P.O. Box 20086
West Village Station
NYC NY 10014
We DO encourage you to come to any Songwriter's Beat night, check out how things are run,
what other people are doing, get involved, introduce yourself!
Please do NOT email actual sound files - if you email a sound file it will be automatically deleted.
Cassettes accepted if you do not yet have a CD.
Please do NOT send lyric sheets or other promo material - we just want to hear your music.
The Songwriter's Beat is booked months in advance, so please be patient after sending in your submission.
We listen to a sample of every submission, but we can not guarantee a performance slot.
Please do not email or call to find out about your submission; we will contact you with an invitation to perform.
Again, please be patient! We receive hundreds of submissions each year.
To stay in touch and see who is performing, join The Songwriter's Beat email list, if you haven't already.
The email list will keep you up to date on what's going on at The Songwriter's Beat, who's playing, when, and special events.
(We'd hope that if you want to perform at the Songwriter's Beat, you are interested in other songwriters who are performing!)
Because there are no paid staff, we are unable to contact artists who, for whatever reason,
are not booked at the Songwriter's Beat. We are also unable to return CDs. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Please keep in mind that we suggest songwriters bring in new material when they perform at The Songwriter's Beat.
So....start thinking about new material, or reworking some older material, or poking around and finding that old song from high school that you never dared to perform live before......and have fun! Keep writing!!