nice highlight in the American Songwriter blog for the New York Songwriters Circle — AS featured the video for my song All The Same Mistakes & there’s a nice big pretty picture of me, woo.

you can read their full post here

I recently did an interview for NBC LXTV (video), as part of the New York Songwriters Circle and that piece is now on Taxi TV in nyc. anyway, I played rockwood last night, and I had a good number of unrelated people come up and tell me they saw me on their cab ride. I had no idea it would be so pervasive, this is wild.

too bad I ride the subway.

the show at friday night in nyc was amazing, thanks to the canal room for being a beautiful venue, cosmo, nysc & q104.3’s jonathan clarke for being beautiful hosts, and alexa wilkinson and bess rogers for playing beautiful sets.

here’s a video of me & the band debuting our new song “whiskey” (thanks to tony maceli for the vid):

3. Whiskey – Mieka Pauley – Canal Room – February 13, 2009 by whosthebass

Cosmopolitan Magazine and the New York Songwriters Circle are celebrating my contest wins with me & the band at our Canal Room show this friday night. Q104.3FM’s Jonathan Clarke is hosting the show, and Bess Rogers & co-StarLaunch-ee Alexa Wilkinson will also be there. this show is going to be amazing. I really hope you can make it out.

tune in to 104.3FM in nyc (or stream q1043.com) sunday night at 9pm – I did a live performance and interview with Jonathan Clarke for Out of the Box. what a fun guy. we talked about the New York Songwriters Circle and Cosmo, and I played All The Same Mistakes.

9PM Sunday night, 11/22/08
Q1043 Radio NYC
104.3 FM in the NYC area
streamed from q1043.com
Out of the Box

as promised, here’s a video of the performance that won me grand prize in the New York Songwriters Circle 2008 Songwriting Contest:

yay my song All The Same Mistakes won the grand prize in the New York Songwriters Circle 2008 songwriting contest. brian, andrew, and I played the semi-finals wednesday night, and then I played solo thursday night in the finals. I’m honored to be recognized by nysc and excited to be more involved with them. I got money, studio time, stage time, and radio time; I am psyched. hopefully they’ll post audio or video, and I’ll make sure to post that here.

update 11/20/08:
here’s the official press release

just found out my song “all the same mistakes” made it to the finals of the new york songwriters circle songwriting contest – top 12 out of thousands of entries. woo

the finals will take place live at the bitter end in nyc on nov 5 & 6 – you’ll get to hear a stripped down acoustic version of that song.