Here are videos of the first finalist to play at the 2020 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest: Kathy Lou Gilman from Kingsland, Georgia, with her song, “My Love, My Suwannee.”

Kathy Lou Gilman two views

The organizing committee is all ears for suggestions for headliners and judges for this year’s Contest, which will be Saturday, August 21, 2021, at the same location, Turner Center Art Park, Valdosta, Georgia. We will start accepting songs on April First: no fooling!

• Intro: Kathy Lou Gilman –John S. Quarterman
  

  Video. Her first introduction was a bit truncated, but there’s another.

• Intro: Kathy Lou Gilman –Scott James, M.C.
  

  Video. Master of Ceremonies Scott James later read her real introduction. And here is her reverbnation page.

• Intro: Finalist Kathy Lou Gilman (facebook live video) –Scott James
  

  Video. We have two videos of each of the finalists. The one from the side is from the facebook live broadcast at the time. Thanks to Patrick Plumlee for pointing the ipad, and thanks to WWALS Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman for figuring out how to extract the facebook videos.

• “My Love, My Suwannee” (facebook live video) —Finalist Kathy Lou Gilman @ Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest 2020.
  

  Video. Here she is, singing her song.

• My love, my Suwannee –Finalist Kathy Lou Gilman
  

  Video. And her song again, from across the audience.

Here’s a WWALS video playlist:

Finalist Kathy Lou Gilman plays My Love, My Suwannee @ Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest 2020
Videos by John S. Quarterman and Patrick Plumlee for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS),
at Turner Center Art Park, Valdosta, Georgia, 22 August 2020.

And here’s a playlist from the beginning of the 2020 Contest, which is getting longer as more videos are added.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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