Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/There's Something In The Water Songwriters Festival


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The result was Delete. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:53, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

There's Something In The Water Songwriters Festival

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Fails WP:GNG, only one google hit with an artist who is not even on the listed performer list, featured performers seem to be mostly the same year to year. &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(talk)  13:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - I stumbled on this thinking I would come in and slam down a few quick references and save the article, as I'm hugely biased towards keeping anything cultural like this. Sadly, I just don't find anything, nothing.  Seems to not be popular outside the local area, and coverage is literally non-existent.  Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  23:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

This is a real event that's been going on for almost ten years. After trying to find more information on the event online and checking Wikipedia I was presented with a link stating there was not a page "There's Something In The Water Songwriters Festival" and would I like to start one... I started the page with the hope of having others contribute once it's started and plan to continue to add to it as I have the time and track down more information.

As far as notability yes there are several excellent core performers play each year but there's also some rising stars both men and women who've played at the fest. Amoung others there's John Fullbright who played the fest in 2012 who was a 2013 Grammy nominee for Best Americana Album. The Dam Quails played in an earlier event and their cd “Down the Hatch” was released in 2011. The record spent many weeks on the National Americana Chart, and has had several top 20 singles on The Texas Music Chart including “Fool’s Gold” “So So Long”, and “Me and The Whiskey”. I haven't compiled a complete list of all the performers over the life of the fest but a few of the ones I have already listed seem to have Wikipedia pages. John Fullbright, Susan Herndon, Michael Fracasso...

Coverage is non-existent yes, I guess so, it's located in a sparsely populated part of Texas over two hours from Austin or Dallas yet musicians come from several states to be a part of it. It's a virtually unknown music event and they probably don't really want the added attention. I simply thought that the history of the musicians who've played there would be interesting and should be chronicled and archived in one place but I guess it's not Wikipedia.

So... "slam down" what you like or have it deleted it if an article about a Texas singer/song writer fest is not up to standards. Phil560 (talk) 02:59, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * And I did everything I could to find the sources. I'm usually the guy fighting tooth and nail to keep event articles and I've written a few of my own. I just couldn't find the sources needed to keep it.  Wish I could have, but I didn't.    Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  13:41, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete as failing to cross the notability threshold for lack of available references in third-party sources. Of possible comfort, in my research trying to rescue this article I did find some sources to cite and improve the Regency Bridge article and have included a brief note about this festival there. - Dravecky (talk) 14:17, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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