Juni Fisher - How Stories Can Become Your Best Songs - SATURDAY
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - 5pm to 6:50pm CDT
Multi-Award winning songwriter Juni Fisher welcomes you to fill your bag of songwriting tricks with powerful tools that transform life stories and fiction into heartfelt, effective songs. Through examples of lyrics that work, Fisher guides you through what makes the story song unique, and how to skillfully edit and place the perfect words in their rightful places. Instrumental knowledge is not required to write wonderful lyrics, nor is music theory. Her emphasis is placed in the art of taking the story from idea, through placement of impact points, to a complete, memorable story song. Story song methods, participants will learn, apply to writing other types of songs, and these will be discussed and dissected to improve your skills. Classes will be limited to 10 participants per session to allow time for questions and sharing of goals.
Fisher will share some songwriting prompts to spark your creativity and as an after-class bonus, workshop participants will be invited to follow up privately with Juni via email to edit and fine-tune a song they’ve written to a prompt provided in class, or to re-work something they’ve previously written and wish to improve.
Maximum of 10 Participants
Please Note: If both this class and the Sunday 6pm class fill up, a Sunday morning class will be added.
Juni Fisher - How Stories Can Become Your Best Songs - SUNDAY
Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 5pm to 6:50pm CDT
Multi-Award winning songwriter Juni Fisher welcomes you to fill your bag of songwriting tricks with powerful tools that transform life stories and fiction into heartfelt, effective songs. Through examples of lyrics that work, Fisher guides you through what makes the story song unique, and how to skillfully edit and place the perfect words in their rightful places. Instrumental knowledge is not required to write wonderful lyrics, nor is music theory. Her emphasis is placed in the art of taking the story from idea, through placement of impact points, to a complete, memorable story song. Story song methods, participants will learn, apply to writing other types of songs, and these will be discussed and dissected to improve your skills. Classes will be limited to 10 participants per session to allow time for questions and sharing of goals.
Fisher will share some songwriting prompts to spark your creativity and as an after-class bonus, workshop participants will be invited to follow up privately with Juni via email to edit and fine-tune a song they’ve written to a prompt provided in class, or to re-work something they’ve previously written and wish to improve.
Maximum 10 Participants
Please Note: If both this class and the Saturday 6pm class fill up, a Sunday morning class will be added.
John McCutcheon - Songwriting with John McCutcheon
With one of the most diverse catalogues of any working songwriter, John has written everything from “Christmas in the Trenches” to dozens of Grammy-nominated children’s songs to political anthems to symphonic works. His Songwriting Camps at Highlander are sold-out every year. He has a pragmatic, direct, and inspiring approach to writing that is sure to “up your game” as well as introduce you to methodologies that will open up new ways of thinking about how and why to write songs. Skill Level: As John’s approach is so unique, this is open to bother beginning and experienced writers.
Maximum 25 Participants
John McCutcheon - Writing about the Hard Stuff
When the times are tough, we often turn to music. To soothe, to heal, to validate, to articulate your feelings. Faith, politics, illness, death, grief, it’s all part of what makes us human. Finding a way to write about these things that is not merely cathartic, but inclusive and healing, that’s the trick. It’s part and parcel of what John has been deep-diving into for a couple of decades now. Come share his insights, honed by what he describes as “having made every mistake…twice!” Skill Level: All Skill Levels