29th
Annual Songwriters School
May 27 – 29, 2008
Directors:
Rick Beresford (Nashville TN);
Dr. Dick Goodwin (Columbia
SC)
Faculty:
Johnsmith (Trempealeau WI)
Pat
Pattison
(Berklee
College of Music - Boston MA)
Michael
Smith
(Chicago
IL)
Amy
Speace (Nashville TN)
PRESS HERE FOR 2008 CLASS SCHEDULE (pdf)
For
the 29th consecutive year, the Texas Folk Music Foundation
hosts its annual Songwriting School at the Quiet Valley
Ranch during the 36th Annual Kerrville Folk Festival.
Both
beginning and advanced songwriters can benefit from this
experience through shared examples and break-out sessions
with our guest faculty.
Directed
by Nashville’s Rick Beresford, the school lasts three
days and is designed to bring out each student’s unique
songwriting style. There are many valid approaches to songwriting
and such differences are encouraged. All types of songwriting
are addressed: folk, rock, blues, and country. Students
receive both large and small group instruction using hands-on-teaching
methods. Individual song critiques and group songwriting
are included
DAY
1 will focus on creative exploration: deriving and developing
physical and emotional lyric elements and song form expansion.
DAY 2 will address music exploration: discovering techniques
for creating and improving melodies. Note value and
length, space, chords, contrast and repetition.
DAY 3 will emphasize form, structure and rewriting.
Poetic style, symbolic writing, rhyme & meter tricks.
By
pre-paid reservation only @ $180 per student (prior to May
10). $215 after May 10. Your registration fee includes the
course, lunches, tent camping fees, a specially designed
T-shirt, and admission
to Sundown Concerts for class days. Limited enrollment.
Starting in late February, you may register on-line by visiting our
Ticket
Page, or call the festival office at (830) 257-3600, or
you may send your registration check to:
Texas
Folk Music Foundation
c/o Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting School
PO Box 291466
Kerrville, TX 78029
make
checks payable to the Texas Folk Music Foundation
