Bob Davoli

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 top 100 finalists across all categories. This award brings Bob’s total songwriting awards to 34 awards won over the last 6 years.

Listen to the award-winning tune on the music page of this site, and other major streaming sites. You can also watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Lfdtbi7NfbQ  

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 top 13% of all entries. This award marks the 33rd award for Bob’s original songs in the last six years.

You can hear the tune on the music page of this site, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Finalists will be announced in a few weeks; check out the other semi-finalists on the ISC website: https://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.

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 at Eric Kilburn’s Wellspring Sound Studio.

Take a look at the video and the other video entries on the NPR website: https://tinydeskcontest.npr.org/2023/browse-2023/

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 the world, with judging by major record labels like Sony/BMG, EMI, Warner, and Universal Music. 
  
Listen to the award-winning song on the music page of this site or click the link below, and check out the other finalists on the IAMA website, winners to be announced by Feb. 10: https://inacoustic.com/winners/

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 “Folk” category, “Chestnuts and Love” and “Midnight Sun Tattoo” were both awarded Semi-Finalist in the “Folk” category. This marks Bob’s 17th original song awarded in a songwriting contest in five years. 
  
You can listen to the tunes on the music page of this site, and other streaming sites, plus check out the other finalists on the Song of the Year website: https://www.songoftheyear.com/winners_2022d.htm

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 our youth. 

Read the rest at the Americana Highways website: https://americanahighways.org/2022/11/16/review-bob-davoli-still-sitting-backstage/amp/

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” - “Transistor Radio and Me”, and “I’m So Easy to Please” - and one from his forthcoming album “Still Sitting Backstage” - “Nothing Aches as Hard (As a Broken Country Heart)”. You can listen to the first two tunes on the music page of this site, Spotify, and Apple Music, and the third tune will be released soon! 
  
Also check out the other winners on the DCA Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/dallassongwriters/ 

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 was held in the 3rd quarter of 2022, and is the third award Bob has received this year. 
  
Check out the other finalists and category winners at https://www.songoftheyear.com/winners_2022c.htm, and listen to the tune on the music page of this site, or on Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services.

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 reach the semi-final stage. Finalists will be announced in the coming weeks. This is the 2nd songwriting award Bob has received in 2022 for his original music. 

You can listen to the tune on this website on the Music page, or on Spotify or Apple Music, and you can check out the rest of the contest semi-finalists here: https://unsignedonly.com/winners

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 at the festival in August! 
  
Check out other featured songwriters at their blog here, and good luck to all contestants! https://grffsongwriter.blogspot.com/2022/05/week-3-highlights.html