Congratulations to Bob for another songwriting award, this one from the 24th Annual Great American Songwriting Contest! Over 1800 songwriters from 41 countries participated in 2022, and Bob’s original tune “Transistor Radio and Me” beat out the competition for the…
Read moreMar 2 2023
Songwriting award: semi-finalist win for International Songwriting Contest!
Congratulations to Bob for winning another songwriting award: this latest is from the 2022 International Songwriting Contest!
Bob’s original tune “Dancing on the Moon” was selected as a semi-finalist in folk/singer-songwriter category, from over 15,000 entries, making it to the…
Feb 10 2023
Contest entry: 2023 NPR Tiny Desk Competition
Check it out: Bob has entered his original tune “Transistor Radio and Me” into the NPR Tiny Desk songwriting competition! Joining Bob in the video are Kathleen Parks, Jesse Williams, and Kevin Barry. Video shot by Christo Tsarias and recorded…
Read moreFeb 1 2023
Finalist in the 19th Annual IAMA Songwriting Contest
Congratulations on Bob’s latest songwriting award, for his original tune “Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues”! This song was awarded a finalist in the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) Songwriting Competition. This contest receives entries from all over…
Read moreDec 1 2022
Three awards from Song of the Year songwriting contest!
Fresh off the release of his fifth album Still Sitting Backstage, the songwriting contest “Song of the Year” awarded three of Bob’s original tunes in their fourth contest of 2022! “It Still Hurts”, placed as a Finalist in the…
Read moreNov 22 2022
Still Sitting Backstage: album review by Melissa Clarke at Americana Highways
A great write-up by Melissa Clarke for Americana Highways, reviewing Bob’s latest album Still Sitting Backstage. She writes, “it’s Davoli on the perspectives and hopes of love and dreams as time has moved us beyond those we hold in…
Read moreOct 4 2022
DSA Spring 2022 Lyrics contest - Bob scores big!
More great news just announced from the Dallas Songwriting Association: the DSA released the names of the semi-finalists in their spring 2022 Lyrics competition, and Bob made the cut with three songs! Two are from Bob’s first album “Wistfully Yours”…
Read moreSep 28 2022
More recognition for Bob's tunes - this time from SongOfTheYear.com!
With poetic flourish for autumn and shorter days arriving in New England, Bob’s original tune “Don’t You Let the Darkness Drag You Down” was selected as a finalist in “Folk” category the “Song of the Year” songwriting competition! This contest…
Read moreJul 26 2022
Semi-Finalist in 2022 Unsigned Only Songwriting Contest
Congratulations to Bob for earning the “Semi-Finalist” award from the 2022 Unsigned Only Songwriting Contest, for his original song “Don’t You Let the Darkness Drag You Down”! Over 7,000 entrants into the contest were whittled down by jury selection to…
Read moreMay 24 2022
Featured this week: "Don't You Let the Darkness Drag You Down" in the Great River Folk Festival (Wisconsin)
Great news out of Wisconsin, Bob’s original song “Don’t You Let the Darkness Drag You Down” is featured in this week’s Great River Folk Festival blog post highlighting entrants to their annual songwriting contest. Here’s hoping Bob qualifies to perform…
Read moreApr 28 2022
Interview with Paul Howard of Music Mecca website for "Hello Out There"
Check out Bob’s interview with Paul Howard for the website Music Mecca, about Bob’s April album release “Hello Out There”: https://musicmecca.org/boston-songwriter-bob-davoli-pays-homage-to-john-prine-with-tribute-album-hello-out-there/
Read on to learn more about the making of the album, and you can listen to the album…
Read moreApr 28 2022
Out now: "Hello Out There" album review in Music Connection Magazine
Out now: the May 2022 Music Connection Magazine, with an album review for “Hello Out There”!
Music critic Eric Harabadian gives the album a 9 out of 10 stars, writing: “From the war veteran lament “Sam Stone” to the aging…
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