NSAI Chapter News

Please join us as we talk about what inspires your songwriting and spend the evening doing song evaluations and feedback on each others' songs! Submit Song Lyrics and MP3 BEFORE THE MEETING through the form on the NSAI website.

We'll be exploring the topic of TOPLINE WRITING at our May meeting. Along with learning about what topline writing is all about, you'll get helpful tips and exercises to develop your writing skills. We'll have song evaluations-critiques, you must submit lyrics and MP3 and consent form. More information and Zoom link to follow. If you plan to join us, PLE

Greetings, Songwriters! We'll be meeting on Thursday, February 20, for a co-writing workshop. There's no better way to build your songwriting and people skills than working with other songwriters to create a song.

Our apologiesfor the late notice, but we had to cancel our January meeting because of an unforeseen circumstance with our meeting site. We will meet again on Thursday, February 20. For January, the Philly Chapter is hosting our first WRITERS NIGHT at a popular a area singer-songwriter venue (which has been sold out).

Topic: Writing for Americana & Indie Genres THURSDAY, November 21, 2019 7-10 pm MESSIAH METHODIST CHURCH 527 RIDGE AVE LAFAYETTE HILL, PA Americana and Independent (Indie) writers have the most freedom of any genre to make their music what THEY want it to be.

Greetings, Songwriters! We hope everyone had a fun, creative, adventurous, and relaxing summer! Now that it's "back to school" time, Philly-NSAI is back, too, with monthly educational meetings, networking ...

WRITING FOR COUNTRY Thursday, June 20, 2019, 7 - 10 PM Messiah United Methodist Church 527 Ridge Pike Lafayette Hill PA 19444 (Parking in back) Hit songs become classics because listeners and fans are craving something they haven't experienced yet. Even if you're not a country writer (or artist) your songwriting will benefit by using exercises offered at

Greetings, Songwriters! We're meeting again on Thursday, May 16, 7-10 PM. Our discussion topic is "Writing for Sync", followed by song evaluations.

PITCH TO PUBLISHER - OLE CHAPTER CHALLENGE Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 7 - 10 PM Messiah United Methodist Church 527 Ridge Pike Lafayette Hill PA 19444 (Parking in back) This is an opportunity for NSAI members to pitch a song to Nashville publisher Ole (pronounced O-lay), giving all NSAI members a chance to be considered for a single song contract.