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  Cyndy Reeves, Founder of Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival announced today that songwriters in the East Tennessee area and neighboring states have four months to get their favorite songs together and enter The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival 2012 Songwriters Contest.   “The primary goal of the SMSWF 2012 Songwriters Contest is to showcase and bring a broader spotlight to the talent we have here in the Smoky Mountains and the Southern Appalachian region,” Reeves stated.  The SMSWF Songwriters Contest is open to all ages. 
   “Songwriters from everywhere have asked me how can they get to perform at the Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival,” noted Cyndy Reeves.  “So we decided to create something fun and profitable for songwriters throughout our region to participate in when we designed the SMSWF Songwriters Contest,” said Reeves.  
   The SMSWF Songwriters Contest will act as a gateway to the Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival providing an opportunity for twenty talented songwriters to perform at The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival Aug. 23-25, 2012.  The SMSWF Songwriters Contest is an avenue for the songwriters’ songs to be heard and/or seen by publishers, producers, record label companies, djs, radio producers, etc.   
   Cash prizes plus a VIP “gift package” will be awarded to the winners in each of the five Categories and the Finale.  The five categories are:  Bluegrass, Country, Folk/Pop/Rock, Gospel/Inspirational, and Lyrics.  The Grand Prize Winner will be chosen on stage at the Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival Aug. 23-25, 2012.  Go to www.SMSWF.com for contest information, rules and regulations.
   The Deadline to enter songs is April 30, 2012.  Category Winner Performances will be held each Thursday evening, Jul. 26 – Aug. 16, 2012 with the Finale Performance and Awards Night being Saturday evening during The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival Aug. 23-25, 2012 in Gatlinburg, TN. 

   The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival is a “Special Event” sponsored by the City of Gatlinburg to be held during the last two weeks of August every year to "Celebrate Our Appalachian Musical Roots". The craft of songwriting from “hit” songwriters themselves will fill venues with ongoing performances for three days in downtown Gatlinburg.  Rain or Shine.  

   The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival is a platform for songwriters to perform their original songs. The mission of The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival is to promote songwriters and to help their songs to be discovered not only by publishers and producers, but by all of us who simply love the songs they write.