Belfast-Nashville Songwriters' Festival, Feb. 2006

The November issue of The Ulster Scot carried a feature on this, but we've only just heard the news and the deadline is less than a week away: the Belfast-Nashville Songwriters' Festival will take place in the Hilton Hotel, Belfast, on 22-26 February. Special prizes are offered for the best love song in English, Irish, or Ulster Scots; the prizes include Avalon guitars. Forms are available from Marcus Music, Royal Avenue, Belfast, or the link above; entries must be in by 15 December.

The same issue of the paper carried two large features on visits to Tennessee, each of them with a musical dimension.