Vanessa received Honorable Mention in a huge pool of entries for the coveted Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriting Competition.
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Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriting Competition Honorable Mention
2010 Emerging Artist Showcase Finalist
Vanessa was selected as one of 24 Emerging Artists to compete in the prestigious Emerging Artist Showcase Competition at this year's FalconRidge Folk Festival! On Friday July 23rd, each artist will perfom 2 songs and the audience will vote for 3 songwriters to return to perform the main stage at next year's festival. Come cheer her on! For more info. visit: http://www.falconridgefolk.com
2010 3rd Place Winner in the Music to Life Contest!
Vanessa was honored to receive 3rd place in the Music To LIfe Songwriters for Social Change Competition. Out of over 300 applicants, Vanessa was selected by a panel of incredible judges including Buffy St. Marie, Noel Stooky (Peter, Paul and Mary), Kathy Mathea, and Tom Paxton among others. She has received a cash prize to donate to a cause she would like to support.
For more info. on this competition visit: http://www.kerrville-music.com/musictolife.htm.
For more info. on this competition visit: http://www.kerrville-music.com/musictolife.htm.
Holly Near
Holly Near: "Take a vibrant singer who has passion for music and poetry combined with her compassion for the world. Add energy, fun, intelligence, curiosity, and respect and it adds up to Vanessa Torres. Vanessa Torres can handle the generation gap. She knows from where she comes and brings it on full force while maintaining a loving relationship with the elders in her audience. Bridges are how we get across the river."
Laura Love
Laura Love: "I was so taken by Vanessa's sensitive intelligent songwriting and found her voice to be achingly beatiful, clear and pure."