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Valerie's version of "Lean On Me" from her My Girlfriends Quilt album
was featured in the Mother's Day episode of
LIVE with Regis & Kelly on ABC, May 11, 2007
"Don't Call Me Yours," a song Valerie co-wrote with Trey Bruce and Brittney Cleary
has been licensed for use in the MTV movie, "My Super Sweet 16 The Movie"
Valerie has a cut on the
new McKaylis album, recorded in Nashville
with producer and co-writer Steve Ivey
of IMI Music International
titled, "Stick Around"
Valerie's been honored to be selected as one of 18 artists to have a song
on the Discovergirls Catalyst 18 Album,
proceeds of which will be used to fund the fight against
breast cancer. Check out the album and buy it here:
Check out Valerie's new page on
the great new website:
DiscoverGirls!
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I got the chance to open
for one of my musical influences,
Jim Messina! at the
WAMC Performing Arts Studio
Valerie produced and starred in a one hour music
special "My Girlfriends Quilt" with WMHT
The show premiered on June 9, 2004 and
airs frequently PBS's HDTV stations
throughout the country
check your local listings for times
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Valerie co-wrote with Nikki Cleary and many top songwriters. Here's Valerie and Nikki with Jason Blume at Cotton Hill Studios |
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Valerie'performed at WGNA's Country Chili Cookoff Photo by Fred Moody |
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Attending the TAXI Road Rally in Los Angeles was great! Here's Valerie with TAXI head Michael Laskow and vice president Doug Minnick |
TONOS Challenge
and had her song, "Hey! That's My Kiss,"
was included on the Hillcrest Recordscompilation CD! She's also had the song, "Teach Me to Dance," co-written with Connie Howard, selected for the Latin male artist Challenge, and Phantom Love selected for the female pop song Challenge
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Valerie showcased at the 2NMC Music Conference in Nashville and so did fellow Albany musician Bryan Thomas |
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Valerie was a speaker at the Dewey Beach Fest in Dewey Beach, DE and also showcased on the John Lennon Songwriting Bus An extraordinary artist that Valerie has begin working with, Rosanne Raneri also showcased! |
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Valerie showcased at the EAT'M Music Conference in Las Vegas May 30 on the John Lennon Songwriting Bus at the MGM Grand Hotel (photo by Benny Donaghy) |
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What a blast we had! Connie Howard and I networked and played at theEAT'M Music Conference in Las Vegas |
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of the Just Plain Folks online songwriter organization,
the world's largest songwriting community.
Her music is also featured on the Radio Free Virgin
station programmed by Just Plain Folks.
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Valerie attended CRS Northeast in Hartford, CT. Here she is with Academy of Country Music executive director Fran Boyd |
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Valerie was featured in the October issue of the
Crafts Report Magazine with her story about the Quilt Ladies.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Valerie had fun writing with singer-songwriter Jonell Mosser at the legendary Harlan Howard's offices in Nashville |
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Valerie was inducted into the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame on June 3, 2001. "This is an honor I can't describe and I'm so grateful to the Hall of Fame and the wonderful upstate New York fans." |
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Valerie performed at the world famous Ernest Tubb's
Record Shop on lower Broadway during Fan Fair,
and signed autographs each day at the Relentless Nashville booth!
Valerie performs at the World Famous Ernest Tubb Record Shop
Valerie performed at the BMI Showcase
at the Exit In in Nashville, TN
The Relentless Party weekend kicked off with a live
appearance on WSM Radio 650 at the Opry.
Later, the Stockyard Restaurant was packed while Valerie and
labelmates Irene Kelley, T. Graham Brown
and other Relentless Nashville artists took the stage
Here's Valerie at the Relentless Nashville
offices with Irene Kelley and Steve Forbert.
Valerie recently visited the Opryland Studios of WSM
in Nashville and appeared on Bill Cody's morning show
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Valerie had a Wal-Mart Mini-Tour with a series of live in-store appearances to support her CD. CLICK HERE to check out the photos! |
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Check out the television commercial Valerie filmed for the Times Union |
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See the "Hey! That's My Kiss" video on the web! See the video and behind the scenes interview footage at www.TUNES.com, and www.RollingStone.com at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival where she performed in the two-week extravaganza that features top songwriters from all over the country |
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Valerie met with and performed for Music Row Magazine publisher David Ross and writer John Hood at their offices in Nashville |
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 Valerie and JR Davis after filming Music Row Profiles |
 Valerie with the Nashville Gavin staff |
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Valerie met with and performed for Billboard Magazine's Nashville staff |
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"They'll Never Know" has won an award in the Adult Contemporary Song
Category by Just Plain Folks, the largest on-line songwriters' organization.
Nominations were culled from over 6000 songs submitted in 1999.
She was also nominated as Female Singer Songwriter of the Year.
Valerie has been a member since its inception and is one of the organization's
"mentors" that support the membership of 19,000.
Read about what inspires Valerie to write
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Valerie performed at WGNA 107.7/fm Countryfest 2000 featuring CMA Female Vocalist of the year, Martina McBride.  Valerie with Martina backstage |
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Valerie finished up the last five songs for "They'll Never Know" at Studio 19 in Nashville. Pictured here with Valerie from left to right, standing: producer Gary Tash, engineer Jim Pace, fiddle and mandolin player Joe Spivey; seated: producer Mark Oliverius and Valerie. CLICK HERE for more info... |
The first single from her album was "Hey! That's My Kiss" |
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Valerie attended a songwriters'
retreat at Wisdom House in beautiful Litchfield, CT, including songwriters Beth Neilsen-Chapman ("This Kiss"-Faith Hill, "Happy Girl"- Martina McBride) and Jason Blume ("Change My Mind"-John Berry) presented by SongShopsCoop.com | |
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Valerie loves to sing for Don Weeks on his morning show on Radio 810 WGYam |
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Valerie joins award-winning WGNA deejay Kevin Richards at his line-dance night to perform for his fans |
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Valerie was awarded FIRST PRIZE (Country) in the Great American Song Contest for "Hey! That's My Kiss," sponsored by SongwritersResourceNetwork.com! | ||
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Valerie also played at WGNA's Countryfest '99, headlined by Faith Hill. | |
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Valerie was featured in the nation's largest quilting publication, QUILT Magazine's Summer 1999 issue. Read the article HERE! | |
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Elixir Strings and Takamine Guitars have both signed agreements with Valerie as an artist endorsee. She'll use their products exclusively and be involved in their promotional efforts.  |
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 the Northeast Country Music Association in 1998: Songwriter of the Year, and Song of the Year for Hey! That's My Kiss. Valerie has two independently released CD's:"My Girlfriends Quilt" and "Bootleg" which are available to hear and purchase right here on the website. Head on over to the ORDER page or visit Amazon.com or CDBaby.com. | ||
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Management, PR and booking: DeLaCruz Enterprises LLC | ||
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