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Michael Tiernan
12+ albums
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Biography - 2007 Pacific Songwriting Competition Songwriter of the Year - 2007 International Acoustic Music Awards Male Artist of the Year RunnerUp - 2007 "I'm Ready" featured in ABC's "Men in Trees" TV Show - 2006 Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Finalist - 2006 Endorsed Artist by the Independent Artists Registry - 2005 AAA Album of the Year, Los Angeles Music Awards - - 2004 Male Singer/Songwriter of the Year, Los Angeles Music Awards - 2005 Orange County Music Awards Nominee - 2005 Finalist: KRCL/Founders Folk Festival Songwriter Contest - 2005 Pacific Songwriting Competition Hot Pick Artist - Winner: 2004 Call to Arts Song Contest for the song "Better" The Story "So a priest walks into a bar and pulls out a guitar..." Sound like the beginning of a joke? The funny thing is - a few years back, this could've described an evening in Michael Tiernan's life. It's hard to believe that just several years ago as a young seminarian studying at the Vatican, Tiernan was raising the ire of his superiors by playing gigs in the pubs of the city. Just a year away from being ordained, Tiernan left that calling for a higher one: his life-long love of music. Today, he's one of the West Coast's hottest songwriters, and his rise in the national singer/songwriter scene is the blossoming of an amazing story. A cancer survivor, a world traveler, a student of languages, philosophy and religions, his music is fully seasoned with the experiences of ten lifetimes. A believer in the power
