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Richelle Putnam
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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!
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See The Boy
a featured song on
Skope Radio

January 2009
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
Competition
s:

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
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relating to sound, the sense of
hearing
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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 will feature
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.
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
Library programs
School workshops
Entertainment
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.
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 will include
personal stories about each song
and my journey as an artist. More
info to come.
Writing for Children
Meridian Public Library
SUPPORT THE ARTS
SUPPORT INDIE ARTISTS
RADIO STATIONS
FEATURING
RICHELLE'S  SONGS

SUPPORT
YOUR HISTORY
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
The History Press
released November 2011!
Click HERE to purchase
WELCOME ! !
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Playwright, Songwriter, Musician
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