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Join us Monday January 8th for our award winning showcase! Our first showcase of the 2018 season features 5 stellar acts and one international guest! Karen Hardy Karen Hardy is an up and coming artist and songwriter from East Brunswick, New Jersey. In September of 2017, she took her soulful pop originals down to Nashville,…

Tickets are now on sale for our annual Holiday show! Click the LINK to get yours in advance – We are also featured as NY TIME OUT magazine THING TO DO!

Join us Monday, December 18th for one of our most signature events! If you’re looking to spend an evening cuddling up to some of the most well crafted songs on the planet (sung by the best talent NYC has to offer) look no further! We have an incredible line up full of special guests to…

Join us Monday November 6th for our award winning series! The evening will feature Anthony Nunziata Annie Calder – Annie Calder, a relative newcomer to the indie music scene, has quickly established herself as an award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer in the US and UK. She delights both listeners and fans with her subtle bits…

Join us this October for our award winning series! We have an incredible line – up featuring some international stars ✨ The evening will feature – Leyla Aroch – is an 18 year old New York native who travels around NYC and Los Angeles performing her original songs. Obsessed with r&b and hip hop, she…

Dado Bargioni A well-known Italian artist will be performing at the New York Songwriter Circle, October second 8 o’clock at the bitter end. This is one of the first articles written internationally about the New York songwriter circle, it is our plan to open a circle in Milan in the future !

After 26 years of teaching voice and doing vocal therapy, and hearing so many performers at the Songwriters Circle, I thought this article was pretty telling. Today, when we as performers can no longer count on selling our CDS, touring has become the way to earn a living and it can destroy the delicate vocal…

We have an INCREDIBLE songwriter showcase coming up for you Monday september 11th! This will be a unique show featuring 5 US acts and a special apperance by Abby Holden! Check out the line up –

NEW YORK (WABC) — A singer/songwriter in Manhattan has found her true calling as a motivator, as she’s determined to make your child the best singer he or she can be. Rock stars have been paying it forward for 25 years now, mentoring a younger generation at the “New York Songwriter’s Circle” started by Tina…

  Join us Monday August 7th for our award winning showcase! The evening will feature Tatiana Lima – www.tatianalima.com Casey McQuillen – https://www.caseymcquillen.com/ Rachel Altounian – https://soundcloud.com/rachelaltounian Aaron Drescher  

Join us Monday July 10th for our award winning showcase! The evening will feature – Michial Miller – www.michialmiller.com Zoe Allyn – www.facebook.com/ZOEALLYN/ Daniel Joseph Baker – www.danieljosephbaker.com La Leurentop – https://laleurentop.com Dominic San Juan – www.dominicsanjuan.com    

Kenny Foster is picked in top 10 Country artists.. Performed last year at the Songwriters Circle.. Congratulations Kenny!!!   http://www.rollingstone.com/country/pictures/10-new-country-artists-you-need-to-know-april-2017-w475983/kenny-foster-w475986

Join us Monday June 5th for our first annual Pride Month Benefit Concert. TICKETS HERE Since 1991, the Circle has booked some of the top songwriting talent around the world at the Historic Bitter End in the west village. The Circle has been home to some of the best artists of the last three decades…

Check out The Songwriter’s Circle featured in Tunedly.com, epic events in New York City for Upwardly Mobile Songwriters! https://www.tunedly.com/blogpost?blog=EpicEventsinNewYorkforUpwardlyMobileSongwriters

Join us Monday May 1st for our award winning Singer/Songwriter Series! The evening will feature – Sally Night – reverbnation.com/sallynight Luke Denison – www.cdbaby.com/cd/lukedenison Lily Vakili – http://lilyvakili.com/ Surya Garg – https://soundcloud.com/suryagargmusic Corry Loveday – https://corrylovedaymusic.com/music Mason McDowell – https://masonmcdowell.bandcamp.com/

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We would like to announce our once a year “Young Performers Night” Monday, April 3rd held at the Legendary Bitter End (147 Bleecker street in the West Village). Hosted by Vocal Coach Tina Shafer, The Songwriter’s Circle is the preeminent live showcase for original music in the United States. Our “Young Performer’s Night” features artists…

Join us Monday March 6th for our award winning singer/songwriter showcase. The evening will feature Moses Patrou – https://www.facebook.com/mosespatroumusic/ Ilene Angel – http://www.ileneangel.com/ Madeleine McMillan – http://www.madeleinemcmillan.com/ David Rahjae – https://soundcloud.com/davidrahjaeofficia Quinn Mills – www.quinnmillsmusic.com  

Join Us Feb 6th at the Bitter End for our Award Winning Series. The evening will feature the incredible talent of – Peter Calo – http://www.petercalo.com Summer Edeen – https://www.facebook.com/GardenofEdeen/ Karina Barroso – www.karinanoel.com/ Brad Standley – www.bradstandley.com/ Maude Latour – https://soundcloud.com/maudelatour www.songwriters-circle.com

Join us Monday January 9th for our first showcase of 2017! The evening will feature Jenna Torres, Gules Asperity, Almond & Olive, J. Alan Schneider Kelsey Hunter and Julia Grippe

I found this article interesting, I hope you do too!   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/obituaries/among-deaths-in-2016-a-heavy-toll-in-pop-music.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

Join us Monday December 19th for our Annual Holiday Showcase The Evening will feature – Rob Mathes Lizanne Knott John Schmitt Andrew Fortier Tina Shafer Ari Douglas Zizzo Nick Deutsch The Bruce Sisters Caris Kojima Spence Triple Trio    

WPIX link for the 25th Anniversary!! Tina Shafer hosts 25th annual NY Songwriters Circle celebration— check out the red carpet

One of our favorite shows every year, to be held Monday 8:30 PM at the bitter end, Rob Mathes, Lizanne Knott, Andrew Fortier, John Schmitt, Tina Shafer, Ari Zizzo and special guests  Nicky Deutsch and Spence triple trio   Tickets to go on sale soon!

Come join us for a once in a lifetime performance at the New York Songwriters Circle 25th anniversary, celebrating great original songs since 1991. SPECIAL GUESTS: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: JOHN OATES (both shows) Tony Winner BILLY PORTER (10pm show only) You will hear some of the original award winning songwriters who will…

Thanks to the support of Taylor guitars, one lucky audience member will receive a guitar by Taylor to be raffled off at the end of each show for the 25th Anniversary!!! 7:30 show  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2641529 10pm show  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2641574

  Come join us for a once in a lifetime performance at the New York Songwriters Circle 25th anniversary, celebrating great original songs since 1991. SPECIAL GUESTS: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: JOHN OATES (both shows) Tony Winner BILLY PORTER (10pm show only) You will hear some of the original award winning songwriters who…

Join us October 3rd for our Award Winning Singer/Songwriter night! The evening will feature – Jason M Howell – https://jasonhowell.bandcamp.com/ Leah Woods Music – https://soundcloud.com/leah-woods-1 Alyssa Garcia – http://alyssaggarcia.com/ Neil Levy – www.lemmingsinc.com Natalie Oliveri – http://www.natalieoliveri.com/

Hailed by the music industry as a major victory, the judge’s decision says the Justice Department misinterpreted a regulatory document that governs the performing-rights agencies BMI and Ascap. News  

Check out our Alum Hayley Reardon  article and new CD  CONGRATULATIONS!!! FIRST LISTEN: Stream new track “Good” by Hayley Reardon

Please note in your books, our 25th Anniversary show with some of the original talent that graced our stages back in the 90’s ! Many of these artists and Grammy winning performers and writers, many with Emmys and all of them from the original showcases, when Tina started booking in 1991. Information for tickets will…

Join us for our award winning showcase Monday September 12th at 8pm The evening will feature – Nikko Benson Benson – www.thisisnikkobenson.com Scott Test – www.ScottTestMusic.com Jackie Marchal – https://www.facebook.com/jackie.marchal?ref=br_rs Nicole Nimroody – http://jessesheppard.com/music/ Jesse Michael Sheppard –http://jessesheppard.com/music/  

Thought this would be of interest : http://www.wsj.com/articles/another-reason-to-court-celebrity-1472376601

In Another Blow for Artists’ Rights, Blue Man Group was sued for $150 million by Ian Pai.  Ian was the composer or  co-composer of  most of the show’s signature pieces, the artistic and musical collaborator of the original shows  in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, the Music Director of many of the shows, and…

Check Out Circle Alum “Billy Porter” singing as part of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” Celebrity Mashup!  

For all those interested in the much awaited outcome, here is a really great article on Led Zeppelin vs. Wolfe (as the  Spirit band member Randy California), whose estate sued Zeppelin for the instrumental opening of “Stairway to Heaven”.  Wolfe’s estate claimed that it was very similar to the opening of their song “Taurus”. Here…

Join Us August 1st for our award winning showcase! The evening will feature – Julia Green Garrett James Cadwallader Cole Bradley Morissa Trunzo Stephen Stavola

Please welcome these amazing writers to the June 6th show Monday at the legendary New York Songwriters Circle… Pellentesque posuere. Donec venenatis vulputate lorem. Vestibulum fringilla pede sit amet augue. Etiam rhoncus. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Aenean viverra rhoncus pede. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec interdum, metus et…