Grateful to learn that my song, "Widows Walking" won second place in the March/April 2021 American Songwriter Magazine lyric contest. Thanks to the women who inspired the song!
Merrick singer-songwriter Drew Velting, who has released a new song, launches a tour of LI homeless shelters to raise awareness during National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week. Photo Credit: Linda McNally
Merrick singer-songwriter Drew Velting was inspired to write a song about the woman killed during the 2017 Charlottesville riots. Photo Credit: Olivia Velting
Wonderful article paying tribute to the incomparable Phil Ochs. A folk singer-songwriter for the ages. It's his birthday today. Definitely worth reading.
Bob Dylan: The Early Years pays tribute to America's most influential singer-songwriter of the 1960’s and the only musician ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. With both guitar and banjo, Drew Velting plays and sings a wide-ranging selection of…
Sending hope and prayers out to the victims, families and people of Las Vegas and Puerto Rico (and RIP Tom Petty) on this day, October 3, 2017. 50 years ago today, we lost Woody Guthrie - a folk music icon…