| Richelle Putnam |
| For the best in Indie Music listen to #l Internet station IRADIO LA - INDIE 104, which has featured my songs; All About Need, See the Boy, Lost in You, Forest for a Child, Tired Of Outlaws and Desperadoes, Baby on My Knee, Ghost Train, Grierson's Raid, Rebel, Lost In You, Soldier in My Heart, I Ain't Leavin',The Best of Me if Yet to Come, Take the Long Way Home for Love, and My Side of Bad. THANKS! Make friends with iRADIO myspace |
| See The Boy a featured song on Skope Radio |
| High Strung Woman and Change My Mind featured songs on Dr. Lou and the House of Blues Hour WNJC 1360 and Midnight Special Blues Internet Radio Live 365 Hear High Strung Woman |
| Banana Peel Radio, Vancouver, Canada chooses Richelle's songs for play in Canada and worldwide. |
| Change My Mind and Grierson's Raid featured on BandRadio, an innovative 24-hour streaming radio station |
| American Songwriter Magazine has awarded the following songs in their Lyric Writing Competitions: All About Need Walk With Me (Take the Long Way Home for Love) Baby on My Knee, Soldier in My Heart Ridin' A Railroad Car |
| Women of Substance Radio featured Richelle's song, "Take the Long Way Home for Love" and "Mississippi in Me" performed by Richelle and written by Sheila Hutcherson and Linda Wey |
| Enjoy popular and rising Indie Artists on Women of Substance Radio |
| Radio Crystal Blue is a freeform internet radio program, created, produced and hosted by Dan Herman, on the Live365 network. This program is a live show where spinning music of leading indie/underground artists of several genres currently performing and recording worldwide. Radio Crystal Blue will feature See The Boy, All About Need, and High Strung Woman. |
| Acoustic Fuel Radio - Specializing in Positive Music a•cous•tic(e-koo stik): Of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing fu•el(fyoo'el): Something consumed to produce energy Acoustic Fuel promotes a healthy mindset by way of positive audio. * Stimulation Station - Music for Feeling Up Beat (Feel Good Music). * Creative Commons - Music for Creativity. * A Calm Place - Music for Relaxation. * On Top of the World -Music for Motivation and Empowerment. * Utopia - Music for Peace and Unity. Acoustic Fuel featured Take the Long Way Home for Love |
| WomensRadio Independent Channel on Live365 is one of the fastest growing independently published online radio stations. It blends the foremost Independent Talk Radio featuring Authors, Experts, Coaches, Artists, Musicians, Activists, Law-Makers, Journalists and More with the finest in Female Musicians the world has to offer! WomensRadio featured "All About Need" and "Take the Long Way Home for love |
"Ballad of Meridian" finishes at #12 out of 283 in
the City Love Music's "Song About a City"
songwriting competition. THANK YOU for your
support!! Top songs in this competition , including
Ballad of Meridian, have been released in a
soundtrack which is available through ITunes.
Special thanks to Sheila Hutcherson and June
Davidson.
the City Love Music's "Song About a City"
songwriting competition. THANK YOU for your
support!! Top songs in this competition , including
Ballad of Meridian, have been released in a
soundtrack which is available through ITunes.
Special thanks to Sheila Hutcherson and June
Davidson.
| Pongid Radio selects Richelle as featured artist and debuts "My Side of Bad." |
A Mississippi Arts Commission Roster Artist and Teaching Artist a Mississippi Humanities Speaker and the Special Features Director for Southern Writers Magazine |
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Richelle is a supporter of Poetry Out Loud and was
a facilitator for Lauderdale, Clarke, Newton,
Kemper, and Neshoba Counties, along with Anne
McKee.
Ken Bolinsky is Mississippi's POL Coordinator
through Mississippi Arts Commission. Contact him
about your student's participation in the 2012
Poetry Out Loud Competition.
Encourage your child, student and schools to be
involved. Studies and statistics prove the arts
improve education.
a facilitator for Lauderdale, Clarke, Newton,
Kemper, and Neshoba Counties, along with Anne
McKee.
Ken Bolinsky is Mississippi's POL Coordinator
through Mississippi Arts Commission. Contact him
about your student's participation in the 2012
Poetry Out Loud Competition.
Encourage your child, student and schools to be
involved. Studies and statistics prove the arts
improve education.
| Music To go, Songwriters Network, Live 365, features "My Side of Bad," May 22, 2010. |
| UK International Showcase accepts three songs: "My Side of Bad," "Take the Long Way Home for Love," and "Like I Never Was Gone." Also featured six songs in a Christmas Special, which included personal stories about each song and my journey as an artist. More info to come. |
| Writing for Children Meridian Public Library |
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| Reading and Music for First Books through Headstart and Quitman Public Library |
| Poetry to Song Workshop Northeast Elementary Lisa Rawlings Class |
| TWENTY MUSIC FESTIVAL "MOUSAI" |
- In the mid-seventies, I joined an amazing group of musicians and friends and we formed
a band called The Magnatones. With the awesome talent of Joey Ethridge, Philip Whaley,
Leon Williams, and Lamar McKenzie, and with Terry Rush in the studio, mixing and
recording, The Magnatones couldn't miss. Ah, youth. Ain't it grand? But with children,
PTA meetings, homeroom parties, cub scouts, and brownies, and, well, need I say
more? Life veered onto another course.
- I became a single parent with three children and the day-to-day routines of work,
school, home, and the joys and hardships that accompany them. I met my wonderful
husband, Tim, and with him I gained a beautiful daughter, making my life filled with four
awesome children. It was my husband's encouragement that prodded me to return the
desires of my past.
- In 1999, I started a serious journey as a writer, taking workshops from the University of
Mississippi (Ole Miss), including the Yoknapatawpha Writers’ Workshop, Southern
Breeze (SCBWI) Writing and Illustrating for Kids Conference, and more. I received my
Diploma in Creative Writing from England's Open College for the Arts, as well as three
diplomas on children's literature from the Institute of Children's Literature. I've
completed accredited writing courses in playwriting, poetry, and fiction from Writers
Digest and Gotham Writers, earning Gotham Writers Fiction Writing Certificate. After
writing sunup to sundown, the crushing blow of each rejection didn't serve to
discourage, but to encourage me toward polished writing with well-developed plots
and three-dimensional characters. Therefore, I started stories, poetry, and songs
over...and over...and over...and over again.
- But isn't life like that anyway, starting over...and over....and over again? Going back to
the starting line to run the race again and again isn't a sign of failure. Walking away
from the race is.
| Click here to read part of the story about Mississippi Writers Guild Click here for the Mississippi Writers Guild (MWG) website. The mission of MWG to advance and preserve the literary arts in Mississippi MOTTO: No Writer without a Voice. |
a member of Mississippi Alliance for Arts in Education, advocate for high quality, comprehensive and sequential arts education for all Mississippi students. and a member of and Regional Contact person for The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Southern Breeze District and Editor for MuseItUp Publishing, A Canadian -Publisher |
| Lulu's Songwriters Night, Gulf Shores, Alabama |
| Writing Instructor, Author, Poet, Playwright, Songwriter, Musician |
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