TAMARA SAVIANO
Author, Producer, Creative Ringleader
Wisconsin native Tamara Saviano is the author of Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music, The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter and the Healing Power of Music, and Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, winner of the Belmont Award, sponsored by the International Country Music Conference. A music and film producer, she also produced Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, which won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album, and Grammy-nominated albums This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark in 2012 and Kris Kristofferson’s 2016 album The Cedar Creek Sessions. Saviano is the writer and director of the 2021 documentary Without Getting Killed or Caught, which won the Louis Black Lone Star Award at South By Southwest Film Festival. In 2017, the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association honored Saviano with the Darrell K. Royal Texas Legend Award for her work with Texas songwriters. In 2020, the Austin Music Awards selected her to receive the Margaret Moser Award, which recognizes women leaders in music. She is currently writing a historical fiction book based in Door County, Wisconsin.
