A Pittsburgh band fronted by a Murrysville singer will play their parody of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” at Gobbler’s Knob on Groundhog Day. The band No More Daisies is one of two finalists selected Sunday for the “Gobbler’s Knob Got Talent” competition. They will play at
Nonprofit Record Label, Future Youth Records Releases Album for International Women’s Day
Share Article SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) March 08, 2021 Future Youth Records https://www.futureyouthrecords.org/, a nonprofit record label dedicated to helping Generation Z musicians create and distribute music promoting social justice, has released its latest album, Think Women, on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021. This compilation celebrates female empowerment themes and features five tracks (available to stream here as well as leading music platforms http://bit.ly/ThinkWomenFYR) selected as part of a global songwriting contest, written and performed by young women from around the world.
Future Youth Records invites musicians aged 16-24 from around the world to enter quarterly songwriting contests, each with a different social justice theme, and juried by top music industry professionals. The label then works with
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Jessa Pontier, 18, recently won a national songwriting competition through the nonprofit, Robbie’s Choice.
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Music always came naturally to Jessa Pontier. The 18-year-old Apollo resident said she started singing when she 2 while banging on a toy piano.
She could play a real piano by the time she was 6, and taught herself to play guitar around 10 or 11 never taking any lessons.
Within a few years, she also started writing her own songs.
“(Music) kind of makes me feel like I’m in my own place,” Pontier said. “Especially once I started being able to write songs. A lot of my songs are very personal, a lot of things I went through myself, as a person. It was really easy for me to speak through music.”