Welcome to Judy's Village Newsletter!
The dog days of summer are upon us. While staying cool, I hope you're all remembering to warmup your voice before performance!
Client News 
Upcoming Events:
I'll be speaking at PCG's Summer Artist Bootcamp in July. It has sold out each year; if you're interested, go here for details.
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Congratulations to IMEA (International Music & Entertainment Association) Award winners!!
Three of my students/voc production clients won this year, one of them with two awards...
Shantell Odgen
won "Americana Album of the Year"
plus "Songwriter of the Year"
Briana Renea
won "Country Female Artist of the Year"
Kelly & Ellis
won "Adult Contemporary Album of the Year"
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Coco O'Connor has released her haunting song 'South Of Santa Fe'... I got to sing bgvs on it. She was recently featured in Cowboys and Indians Magazine.
More about her:
Coco raised these beautiful, beloved wolves pictured. She is raising money to benefit wolves and wolf dogs. She lives in Santa Fe, NM, and travels to Nashville to record.
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Victoria Leigh was cast in an episode of USA's 'Chrisley Knows Best' (congrats, girl!). Here's a clip from the show.
More about her: She is a multi-talented model, actress, singer, songwriter and performer formerly from Texas.
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Joe Johnston has a new book out "Grits to Glory; How Southern Cooking Got So Good".
More about him: Talk about your renaissance man... This Native American is a singer, songwriter, novelist, speaker, painter, photographer, film maker, journalist and he created the Happy Meal for McDonalds, then years later testified for the Center for Science in the Public Interest when they sued McDonalds for making kids fat! He's gifted,
smart, and brave!
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Kacey Musgraves has garnered high praise touring with Harry Styles and with her summer hit 'High Horse'... which she recently performed on SNL.
More about her:
Kacey was referred to me as vocal student by our mutual friend Radney Foster, who was my label mate on MTM Records. It's a small world!
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Cassandra Kubinski is doing her first international tour(she calls it her "Other Side Of The World Tour". France, Romania, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia. YAY!
More about her:
She and I co-wrote 'Still Breathing', which I recorded on John and my 2015 album. On her EPK she is lauded by her co-writer Billy Joel. Yep, THAT Billy Joel.
Judy's News
Michael, John, me and Kayla at Geoffrey's Restaurant overlooking ocean
My thanks to my old friends Michael Hodges and Kayla Morrison of ASG Music Group (Alcon Sleeping Giant) for flying me out to California to work with their incredible team of producers, engineers, singers, songwriters and staff. (Congrats on that joint/venture, btw!) What a wise step for a media company to book a vocal coach to help them protect and enhance their talent
and create even more levels of magic in their productions! John and I truly enjoyed the hospitality and the ocean view from hotel and restaurants.
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I've had a blast in the studio this spring!
Clockwise from the left: Chris Leuzinger, Wes Little, Nathan Smith, Duncan Mullins, Glen Duncan, Michael Rojas, me and Heather
Engineer Nathan Smith and I finished final vocals and mix on a reggae-flavored project for female Chesney/Buffett-style artist Heather Hayes. It will make great listening at beach parties everywhere this summer!
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Clockwise from back left: Dug Grieves, Nathan Smith, Dennis Wage, Wes Little, John Conley, Duncan Mullins, Bill and me.
I produced an awesome country rock project on singer/songwriter/performer Bill Wysong. Tracks, vocals and mix are done, what a blast!
Randy Moore (back row) and I sang bgvs on Bill's project.
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Producer/engineer Sarah Emily Parish hired me as vocal producer for Brooklyn Roebuck. And veteran engineer Bobby Bradley hired me to head a background vocal group at Hilltop Studio ... the oldest continually running studio in Nashville.
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Next ... look for my All Things Vocal Blog and Podcast update in your email soon. Got some great new episodes (free vocal training) to share!
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