Duncan, OK) Ali Harter will perform at the Trail Dance Film Festival’s 2010 Golden Drover Awards Show set for 6pm on Sunday, January 24 at the Simmons Center, 800 Chisholm Trail Parkway in Duncan, Oklahoma.

She is a singer/songwriter from Choctaw, Oklahoma. Playing in bands or as a solo musician for the better part of twelve years, Harter is a veteran in the international music scene touring both the US and Europe. March 13th, her new CD, “No Bees, No Honey" will premiere at a release show at The Conservatory in Oklahoma City. Later this spring she returns to Paris, France for a show at the historic Olympia with Wax Taylor.

She has been fortunate enough to share the stage with such acts as: John Mayall, Meg and Dia, Magnolia Electric Co., Steel Train, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, War of Ages, Flee The Seen, and has shared festival billing with the likes of The Flaming Lips, Leon Russel, Ben Harper, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Amos Lee, Limbeck, The Black Crowes, Cake, Damone as well as many others. Her first record 'Worry The Bone', was released June 15th 2007 on Little Mafia Records. 'Worry the Bone', is available through itunes and DATAPANIC Distro in the US, and was re-released in Europe in 2008 and is available in stores throughout France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands Anticraft.

Working with French management companies Paradigme Prod./Tojours Plus, and Acouzic, Ali been able to tour France, Belgium, Italy, & Switzerland consistently since 2007. July 2009 marked nearly a dozen European tours in a little under two years; plans for more in 2010 are underway. Ali recently traveled to Switzerland to play the prestigious, Montreaux Jazz Festival with the likes of BB King, Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock, Alice Cooper, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Black Eyed Peas and many others.

Ali has also joined up with WARM Music/Big Green Bamboo, a European publishing company, which has given her an opportunity to explore the commercial side of the music industry. Ali has begun writing and recording original music for television add campaigns.

Ali's music has also been used in several independent films including Mickey Reeses', “Le Corndog Du Desespoir” and Sterlin Harjo’s Award-Winning Film, ‘Barking Water”. You can also hear and see Ali perform on the new season of OETA's original home improvement phenomenon, 'Utopia Joe'.

She can also be heard collaborating on the new Wax Tailor record, which she co-wrote with Wax Tailor and New Orleans' 'Voice', titled, ‘This Train'. In addition, she recently had the privilege of doing the album artwork for another Oklahoma band, The Turnpike Troubadours. They will be performing together on various tour dates. www.myspace.com/turnpiketroubadours

For Trail Dance Film Festival Information Contact:
Anthony J. Foreman - President
SOUTHWEST ASSOCIATION OF FILM
(580) 470-9330 - Office
(580) 467-8519 - Cell
anthony@traildancefilmfestival.com
1313 W. Ash Ave. Duncan, OK 73533
P.O. Box 716 Duncan, OK 73534
http://www.traildancefilmfestival.com