Welcome to the official website of the 2011 New Orleans Songwriters Festival ("Songfest"). This, the 4th year's event will be an abbreviated, one-day event Saturday December 3rd, 2011¶.

Schedule

Saturday Dec. 3, 2011

• Café Istanbul
  • Regions Bank Sponsored "Discovery Stage" Teen & "Tween" Open Mic: 11 am - 4 pm: Tween and Teen Singer-songwriters. (Convenient parking with onsite security.) Click here for more information.
• Blue Nile
  • Downstairs: 6 pm - 2 am: Massive Open Mic. Click here for more information.

Purpose

The purpose of the New Orleans Songwriters Festival is manyfold:

• Promote interaction between New Orleans and Louisiana-based writers and writers from around the world.
• Provide exposure for New Orleans and Louisiana-based writers and artists to music center publishers and A&R personnel.
• Promote interaction between New Orleans and Louisiana-based music industry people and businesses to their counterparts in major city music centers.
• Create an event that lends itself to national and international media exposure for New Orleans and Louisiana-based writers and artists.
• Provide a new source of performance opportunities for members of the New Orleans music community.
• Promote awareness of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast's reconstruction progress.
• Donate excess NOSF operating funds to charity to benefit New Orleans and Louisiana-based musicians.

¶ The event this year is a shortened version of prior years' Festivals due to the relocation of one of the Festival's founders to Nashville that unavoidably is falling at the exact same time as the 2011 Festival. In 2012, we expect to deliver the usual multi-day event with world-renowned songwriters as in prior years.

Click here for Festival contact info.