Casey Desmond

Biography
Casey Desmond is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who brilliantly balances rocking pop/folk melodies & harmonies & thought provoking lyrics, with everything from the edgiest guitars, soulful pianos, deeply haunting rock or acoustic instrumentation, & a 4 octave multi dimensional vocal range.
An award winning songwriter, vocalist & performer, Casey has written and recorded with such luminaries as grammy winner Will Ackerman, Peter Gabriels' Tony Levin, Bryan Carrigan, Chris Fogel, Mike Denneen & Mike Levesque. She is currently in the studio with multi Gold and Platinum Producer Anthony J Resta (collective soul, Shawn Mullins)
She has performed at colleges, venues, & festivals all over the country including CMJ Virgin College Mega Tour , Sundance Film Festival , South Park, London Calling, MMS, MPMF, Head of the Charles Regatta, NACA, Collegefest, & the Intl. Folk Alliance, NAMM & DFEST.
She has released a new CD & is touring this year throughout the US. & Canada.
Casey is endorsed by Daisy Rock Guitars & sponsored by Rock Star Energy Drink.

Press and Web Highlights
*Nominee for Best Local Female Vocalist
Boston Music Award 2007 (10/07)
*Featured artist in 2007 Music Edition of Improper Bostonian
* Track on the Sept CMJ NMM compilation
*Finalist in the 92.5 fm The River's Rising Stars
winning local commercial airplay
*JimDunlop.com (strings and picks)
October 21/ 07 Band of the Week
*Nominee for Los Angeles Music Award 2007
*July 07 Artist feature on intl booking site vip-booking.com
*June 07 Performingsongwriter.com's Top 12 DIY download artists,
*May 07 Featured Artist on XMRadio & www.radarreport.com
*April 07 Featured Artist on www.alternativeaddiction.com & onlinerock
* Feb 07Best New Artist at womenrising.com
*Jan 07 Featured Artist Indie Matters magazine,
*Jan 07 Artist Spotlight in Campus Activities Magazine,
*voted one of Nexbighit.com's best of 2006
SONGWRITING CREDITS/AWARDS:
* $10,000 Grand Prize Winner: Vision4Music
songwriting contest for "Save Me Now"
* Winner of Broadjam/Daisy Rock Guitar Endorsement
*Winner Oct 07 Broadjam Rock songwriting contest
* Winner Next Big Hit song contest 3/07
* Winner 2006 Rock Star Energy Drink &
Effen Vodka - Be an Effen Rock Star competition
* Video prize for "Save Me Now" at
Digifest Intl video competition in Florence Italy.
* Winner 2006 Los Angeles Music Award-
Female Singer/Songwriter -Electronica category
* Winner -Songwriters Universe Sept 06(Save Me Now)
* Nominated for Indie Act of the Year &
Indie video of the year- 2006 Immie Awards
* Winner - Indie song of the year
(Save Me Now) 2006 Immie Awards
* Finalist- 2006 UK Songwriters competition-Rock
* Semi Finalist - 2006 UK Songwriters competition -Pop
* Semi-Finalist - Williamsburg Songwriter Competition
* First prize winner -VH1 Song of the Year Awards-pop
April 2006 -Dance/Electronica category
* Finalist in the 2005 John Lennon songwriting contest
* 2 time Semi finalist in the NE Independent Music World Series
* 2 time honorable mention winner in the
Billboard songwriting contest
* prize winner- the Singer/Songwriter awards
* prize winner - International Acoustic Music Awards
* Vocalist of the Month (7/05) for Singeruniverse.com
* Song of the Year awards suggested artist
* 2005 N.E. Regional winner –Global Battle of the Bands

Mgmt: Katherine Desmond/sound museum prod. 617-823-4403
katherinedesmond@mac.com
info@caseydesmond.com
Booking: Sound Museum Records
info@caseydesmond.com


Instrumentation
Casey Desmond: Vocals, Guitar, Keys
with band:
Taylor Barefoot: Guitars
Nate Christy: Bass
Andy Reitz :Drums


Discography
2007-No Disguise (sound museum records)
2006 - DVD single
2006 - 4 song EP
2005 - Casey Desmond (Self-titled)
2003 -Casey Desmond acoustic


Links
http://www.caseydesmond.com
Casey's Myspace Page