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When Claudia Nygaard’s high school guidance counselor called her into his office during her senior year, he handed the former C+ student her report card filled with straight A’s and said, “Claudia I think you might be a late bloomer.” Little did either of them know how true those words would still be decades later.
Once described by a concert promoter as “Will Rogers without the rope”, Nygaard is an entertainer known for her quick wit and an affable connection with her audience. She is an incredible storyteller, not just as a songwriter, but also in the charming tales she spins between her songs. She earned that skill as she fought to hold an audience’s attention night after night and year after year in dive bars, rowdy honky tonks, and on noisy fairgrounds. That’s also where Claudia learned how to sing. Her sensual alto, described by Chicago syndicated DJ Rich Warren as “amber honey”, has a resonance and power that can’t be found in younger vocal chords. It is a voice that has learned phrasing from Frank Sinatra, belting from Janis Joplin, subtle nuance from Joni Mitchell, and breathing from an opera coach.
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When Claudia Nygaard’s high school guidance counselor called her into his office during her senior year, he handed the former C+ student her report card filled with straight A’s and said, “Claudia I think you might be a late bloomer.” Little did either of them know how true those words would still be decades later.
Once described by a concert promoter as “Will Rogers without the rope”, Nygaard is an entertainer known for her quick wit and an affable connection with her audience. She is an incredible storyteller, not just as a songwriter, but also in the charming tales she spins between her songs. She earned that skill as she fought to hold an audience’s attention night after night and year after year in dive bars, rowdy honky tonks, and on noisy fairgrounds. That’s also where Claudia learned how to sing. Her sensual alto, described by Chicago syndicated DJ Rich Warren as “amber honey”, has a resonance and power that can’t be found in younger vocal chords. It is a voice that has learned phrasing from Frank Sinatra, belting from Janis Joplin, subtle nuance from Joni Mitchell, and breathing from an opera coach.
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Bill Lloyd is a Nashville based songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer who is most often remembered as half of the late ’80’s RCA country-rock duo, Foster and Lloyd. Lloyd’s diverse musical activities include working as a producer (ranging from Carl Perkins to MTV reality show indie-rockers, The Secret), a session player (from Brit-pop icons like Ray Davies of The Kinks and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze to country legends like Buck Owens and Steve Earle), a sideman (Poco, Marshall Crenshaw and with Cheap Trick when they perform The Beatles Sgt. Pepper with orchestra) and as a songwriter (with songs cut by Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Keith Anderson, Hootie and the Blowfish and many more). He has recorded a string of critically acclaimed solo records that blend his melodic power pop sensibility with finely tuned song craft. During his three-year stint as the Stringed Instrument Curator at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, he helped create the quarterly series Nashville Cats, that he continues to host. He’s the music director for the First Amendment Center in Nashville. He also organized and plays in Nashville’s high concept cover band, The Long Players recently profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Bill Lloyd is a Nashville based songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer who is most often remembered as half of the late ’80’s RCA country-rock duo, Foster and Lloyd. Lloyd’s diverse musical activities include working as a producer (ranging from Carl Perkins to MTV reality show indie-rockers, The Secret), a session player (from Brit-pop icons like Ray Davies of The Kinks and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze to country legends like Buck Owens and Steve Earle), a sideman (Poco, Marshall Crenshaw and with Cheap Trick when they perform The Beatles Sgt. Pepper with orchestra) and as a songwriter (with songs cut by Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Keith Anderson, Hootie and the Blowfish and many more). He has recorded a string of critically acclaimed solo records that blend his melodic power pop sensibility with finely tuned song craft. During his three-year stint as the Stringed Instrument Curator at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, he helped create the quarterly series Nashville Cats, that he continues to host. He’s the music director for the First Amendment Center in Nashville. He also organized and plays in Nashville’s high concept cover band, The Long Players recently profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Bob Regan born in Sacramento, raised in South Lake Tahoe, California) is a Grammy and Dove nominated American country music songwriter. His credits include "Busy Man" by Billy Ray Cyrus, "Your Everything" by Keith Urban, "Soon" by Tanya Tucker, "Thinkin' About You" by Trisha Yearwood, "Running Out of Reasons to Run" by Rick Trevino, "Fight Like a Girl" by Bomshel, "Something About a Woman" by Jake Owen, and many others. Regan is a past President of the Board and current legislative chair of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. In 2006, he helped pass the Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act.
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Bob Regan born in Sacramento, raised in South Lake Tahoe, California) is a Grammy and Dove nominated American country music songwriter. His credits include "Busy Man" by Billy Ray Cyrus, "Your Everything" by Keith Urban, "Soon" by Tanya Tucker, "Thinkin' About You" by Trisha Yearwood, "Running Out of Reasons to Run" by Rick Trevino, "Fight Like a Girl" by Bomshel, "Something About a Woman" by Jake Owen, and many others. Regan is a past President of the Board and current legislative chair of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. In 2006, he helped pass the Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act.
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Karen is not only a respected Artist/Vocalist in her own right, but she is the award-winning songwriter behind mega-hits like Faith Hill’s Take Me As I Am and Let’s Go To Vegas, as well as Trick Pony’s On A Night Like This and Tracy Byrd’s Keeper Of The Stars, among numerous other cuts from Artists in country music.
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Karen is not only a respected Artist/Vocalist in her own right, but she is the award-winning songwriter behind mega-hits like Faith Hill’s Take Me As I Am and Let’s Go To Vegas, as well as Trick Pony’s On A Night Like This and Tracy Byrd’s Keeper Of The Stars, among numerous other cuts from Artists in country music.
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Wood was born and raised in Hampton, Arkansas population 1600. He was graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in business administration in 1970. He is the sole owner of Rope A Note Music publishing, which contains more than five hundred songs. He also owns Rope A Note studio on Music Row, and has his own production company.
Wood and his wife Gloria moved to Nashville in 1976 to get in the music business. Since then, as a songwriter Wood has written some of country music’s biggest hits, among them are; "BOBBIE SUE" for THE OAK RIDGE BOYS, "TWENTY YEARS AGO" for KENNY ROGERS, “WHAT I DIDN’T DO” for STEVE WARINER, and “RIDING WITH PRIVATE MALONE” which he produced for DAVID BALL. All four of these songs have received BMI awards for being played over a million times.
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Wood was born and raised in Hampton, Arkansas population 1600. He was graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in business administration in 1970. He is the sole owner of Rope A Note Music publishing, which contains more than five hundred songs. He also owns Rope A Note studio on Music Row, and has his own production company.
Wood and his wife Gloria moved to Nashville in 1976 to get in the music business. Since then, as a songwriter Wood has written some of country music’s biggest hits, among them are; "BOBBIE SUE" for THE OAK RIDGE BOYS, "TWENTY YEARS AGO" for KENNY ROGERS, “WHAT I DIDN’T DO” for STEVE WARINER, and “RIDING WITH PRIVATE MALONE” which he produced for DAVID BALL. All four of these songs have received BMI awards for being played over a million times.
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