Local Singer-Songwriter wins 1st place in the Woody Guthrie Songwriter Contest

Paddy (Patrick) Mills of Cape Elizabeth and Warren will be performing at the Woody Guthrie folk Festival in Okemah Oklahoma on July 4.

Paddy is a local, midcoast, singer-songwriter who recently won 1st place in the Woody Guthrie songwriter contest. He currently performs throughout New England with special emphasis on midcoast Maine singing his award-winning song "Bayview massacre".

This is an exciting event for Paddy, his family and his friends. Your reporting of this event will be greatly appreciated. You can find more information about Paddy at Paddy Mills.com or on Facebook at Paddy Mills.




Biography

2013 Winner Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest
2013 Winner Rose Garden Coffe House Performing Songwriter Competion
2009 Finalist Solarfest Songwriter Showcase
2007 Village Soup Times, Best of the Best Readers Poll
2006 Finalist New England Songwriting Contest.
2006 Winner Unity College Earthday Songwriting Contest
2005 Finalist New England Songwriting Contest.
1999 Finalist Big Noise Song Slam

Paddy Mills is a folk singer whose songs are as salty as the Maine coast he calls home. Like Greg Brown on helium, Mills can spin a yarn; “projecting those stories as short movies onto the inside of our forehead for us to watch with our minds eye”, MaineFolkMusic.com describes his latest CD as “full of intimate, heartfelt, finely crafted, and masterfully performed songs”. Paddy is a full time musician, and bit of a road warrior, playing upwards of two hundred gigs a year. He is the winner of the 2013 Rose Garden Coffeehouse Performing Songwriter Competition as well as the 2013 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. As a songwriter, Paddy has a knack for the overlooked. He knows that common sense is not so common, and simple truths are not so simple. With a hitch-hikers heart and a back pack full of notebook philosophy, Paddy can leave you grinning like you've just been let in on a secret -- one that you might just have known all along.

Instrumentation
Paddy Mills, acoustic guitar, wiessenborn, stomp box percusion, and vocals.

Discography
"Rocket Ships and Joyous Fits" (1997)
"The Original Sound Track to the novel The One Stop Hallelujah Coffee Shop" by Jennifer Blood (1997)
"Three... or 32" (2000)
"Our Hometown" (2006)
"3 Lefts" (2011)'
"Distiller of Fine Songs" (2012)

Official Website
http://www.paddymills.com