Licensing successes

Licensing; "Penguin's First Time" and "Minuette for Ectoparasites in C Major" (instrumentals) licensed by Song and Film Inc. to cable television via Broadjam. "Playing in the Key of Relaxation" on hold list with "Jam Party" XBox interactive app. "Go Rabbit!" with publisher Crucial Music in Los Angeles via Taxi.

Contest successes

Wins: Broadjam Lyric of the Month Contest, May '09 Upstate New York Songwriting Contest 2008 - gospel category Broadjam 6-Pack 2007 "Location, Location, Location" contest element IFI Music song contest (Electric Alternative genre) 2007 Belfast-Nashville Songwriter's Festival 2006 (Best love song) Broadjam Song of the Month (Nov 06) Music Aid 2007 - National results; Best Male Solo Artist, Best Songwriter & Best Production (Italy) Runner-up: Bjam 6-pack 2009 "two-timer" contest element Bjam 6-Pack 2005 'Open to Interpretation' contest element Music Aid 2006 - Best Songwriter (Italy) Special Mentions: Music Aid International Awards 2007 Placed overall 7th, Broadjam 2009 6-pack Placed overall 10th, Broadjam 2007 6-Pack. Placed overall 15th in both 2005 and 2008 Broadjam 6-Pack contest. Finalist, UK Songwriting Contest 2009 (jazz/blues category) UK Songwriting Contest 2008 (Gospel and Pop categories - 2 songs) Upstate New York Songwriting Contest 2008 International Acoustic Music Awards 2007 (folk category) Semi-finalist, UK Songwriting Contest 2010 (5 songs in AC, Jazz/Blues and Instrumental categories) Dallas Songwriters Association 2009 UK Songwriting Contest 2009 (9 songs in pop, rock, folk and open categories) UK Songwriting Contest (2008 - 8 songs in Jazz/blues, Rock/Indie, Adult Contemporary, Folk and Pop categories - 8 songs) (2006 & 2007 - folk/pop/jazz, 8 songs)

Jim Ferrie - Bio

Back when the dinosaurs ruled the earth, my mother sent me to piano/organ lessons with the wish I should play in church. She was an operatic soprano. My father was a swing/jazz drummer, so it was either Glen Miller or La Traviata. Life as an infant was great, playing a plastic guitar to the mop-topped Beatles. Then flower power arrived and I was restricted in my domestic listening, no doubt in order to save my soul. In my teens, I hated piano lessons. They were tough. Guitarists looked cool and could get girls with ease. Then came the Sex Pistols and the walls came tumbling down. Yay! I started to strum and strangely enough, got girls. College band playing covers - Ah, those were the days! But, still there was something alluring about the piano when I wasn't being forced to play stuff I hated. I started playing stuff I liked. I liked jazz. I tried to play jazz. Due to impatience, it all ended in tears, so to speak. Moving on from the Jurassic era and I've reached my 30's and have a couple of kids. After playing guitar for about 10+ years, I finally took lessons - in jazz, naturally. Did I then play jazz? No! I get a gig playing New Country in southern England, mostly on keyboards, which meant I had to practice a lot. It also lead me to places a married man shouldn't go. Life was fantabulous. Then I went to live in France and the gigging stopped. I'd never written a song and I was 41 years old. But nobody told me I couldn't. I bought a Yamaha hard disk recorder, sold my soul to rock'n'roll, finally fell in love with the macbook and 12 guitars, 3 keyboards and a bass later the rest is history - without the bloody dinosaurs. I worked at Tinman Studios at Silves in the Algarve region of Portugal, working as House Engineer and Associate Producer with owner Mike Myers, who himself has produced such acts as The Prodigy, Billy Ocean and The Nolans. I'm a Chemical Engineer. That's my dayjob and that's how I pay the bills.