Alyson Greenfield

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"This girl's got it all."
-Dave Merenda, Grammy Award Winning Songwriter/ Producer (Sarah McLachlan)
Alyson Greenfield was recently named a Semi-Finalist in the Paste Magazine Rock N Reel At Sea Contest, and her "Six Songs" EP just won 3rd Place at the Women's Radio Review Awards 2007 in the Classical/Contemporary Category!
In August Alyson returned from Mali, West Africa where she studied guitar with Sinaly Papus Diabate and sat in ..boards with the Super Djata Band at Bamako's music hotspot, Foyer De L'air. Alyson finished recording her first full length album this February with recording engineer/producer Denise Barbarita, who has worked with artists such as Mary J. Blige, David Byrne, Herbie Hancock, and Angie Stone. The album will be released in May of 2008.
After winning in the Solo Category of Fox's My Network TV Band Call Out, Alyson licensed four of the six songs on her "Six Songs" EP to the network. Her songs have been heard in the television programs "Wicked, Wicked Games" (starring Tatum O' Neal) and "Saints and Sinners." Alyson's music can also be heard on Rubyfruit Radio, Onlyindies Radio, The Female Front, Women's Radio.com, and NTG Radio.
Alyson has played at music festivals such as Estrojam in Chicago, EarthFusion in Minneapolis, and Comfest and Ladyfest, both in Columbus, OH. Alyson finished an east coast tour in January '06 with the NYC-based bands, Bacci and the WMDs, whose members have shared the stage with John Mayer, Fishbone, and Matisyahu. While on tour Alyson performed at New York City's Arlene's Grocery. She played a spring '06 gig in NYC at the Rockwood Music Hall, and most recently returned to Arlene's last summer.
A former Board Member of the Chicago National Organization for Women, high school teacher, and Tolerance Educator, Alyson seeks to promote ideas of understanding through her music. As well as playing at theaters, bars, and coffee shops, she prizes her performances at tolerant-conscious festivals and events such as Estrojam, Ladyfest, Comfest, and Earth Fusion.
As well as recording her new album, she is also writing lyrics and composing music for a musical under the direction of Raphael Crystal, a BMI Musical Theater Workshop Alumnus who received the New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off Broadway Musical for Kuni-Leml.
Additional credits include co-writing the screenplay for Sitting on Fire, a short film based on Alyson's original short story, which was selected to show in several national film festivals-- among them the 2004 California Independent Film Festival and the 2003 Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival, where it won Special Prize for Best Short Film. She has most recently been seen on screen acting in Splitpillow's The Alpha Project, Thomas Lisa's "White Hot Dork Funk" music video, and ZWAN's music video, "Lyric."
Alyson also has her MFA in creative writing from The University of Alabama. Her writing can be found in such magazines as Sinister Compendium, Mêlée, Blaze Vox, and 27 Rue de Fleures.
Alyson is currently relocating from Tuscaloosa, AL to New York City, NY. .. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- CDBABY LINK for ALYSON GREENFIELD: Six Songs --