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The Songwriters Series continues its worldwide success featuring songwriters from around the world including France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Germany pairing them with great songwriters from Texas and throughout the country. The Songwriters Series is a part of the independent music revolution changing the entertainment industry today. The Songwriters Series features live performances from songwriters playing with minimal accompaniment on our intimate, outdoor production set located on ³Hank¹s Place² in Austin, TX.

The production season lasts from March to November with a live outdoor concert each month featuring 3-4 songwriters performing 30 minutes each. Each show will re-run and/or be re-edited during the off-season from December to March and all shows will be archived for the Texas Barker History Museum. ³Hank Sinatra Presents² has been televising and producing music shows since 1984 and has been represented and distributed by Universal Music throughout America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Richard May is a national award-winning movie and television producer, director and songwriter.

We had Australian, now L.A. songwriter, Gilli Moon over to perform one eventing so she wrote about it. Here’s her recount:

So during the days of Thurs and Fri we spent at the Austin Convention Center at SXSW. It was a maze of booths, panel discussions and people everywhere. Thurs night we drove out of town a bit to Hank Sinatra’s place to record my television appearance for the Austin Music Network. Think: high tech video recording studio meets country boy boonies-ville. This was a real trip and one of the highlights of my Texas journey this time around. Hank’s house is a typical farm house in the sticks. His “cameramen” wandered up the road in their checkered shirts, cowboy hats, boots and cigarettes… and completely blew me away with their amazingly professional camera work. They had the stage set up outside with Xmas tree lights and some mood lighting. Richard May (organizer) said “we have to wait till the sun sets more before we film… we need just the right light and reflection.”

Well ok…. So we waited. And it was totally worth it. They organized a keyboard for me and I had a multi-camera shoot with Hank upstairs in the living room switching and recording. The dogs were there, the cats were there, the beer was popped, the locals cruised over for a gander. the crickets began. It was intimate, and down to earth. It reminded me of a bunch of my parents friends in Wollombi Australia getting together for a smoke and a film production. High tech outback! No airs, no pretence, just art printed on film. Way to go! I watched the tape after and I couldn’t have asked for a better video.