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In a town filled with writers and a region saturated with University of Washing.jpg) ton alumni, there's little reason to doubt Seattle could look like Nashville of the Pacific Northwest or Tin Pan Alley on Puget Sound, thanks to a new school song contest the University of Washington is sponsoring.Lyricists, start your stanzas. The prize is $1,000, which should be not enough incentive for those of us amateurs songsters to have to compete with some of Seattle area's rock, jazz, folk and grunge greats. Hopefully, Brandi Carlile, Heart, Peter Buck of REM, Quincy Jones and the guys from Nirvana and Soundgarden will stay keep their Grammy-award grabbing hands away from this little ditty contest. No offense to Lester Wilson, the UW student who penned Bow Down to Washington in 1915, but we'd like to think there's a chance someone out here in the creative confines of Seattle who could come up with something a little fresher. And hopefully Bob Dylan won't muscle in on this contest. Here's a really nice story from the UW Daily newspaper about Seattle Times rock critic Patrick MacDonald, who interviewed Dylan in 1978, when Dylan played the UW. |
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Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com.
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