2024 Workshop In The Mountains |
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What? |
An opportunity to develop your songwriting craft in a friendly and hands-on setting. Whether you are a beginner or someone already established, this reasonably-priced workshop weekend offers all writers the chance to learn from award winning mentors, network with peers and other songwriters, perform and experience the process of co-writing. | 
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With: |
Award winning songwriters: Allan Caswell | SNEZ | Roger Corbett | |
When? |
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November | |
Where? |
Hotel Blue - 88 Lurline St. Katoomba, NSW | |
Weekend Seminar and Workshop cost: $220 per person | ||
Saturday 2nd November: |
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12.00: |
Guest Artist SNEZ interviewed by Stephen Kiely | |
1.30 pm: |
Critiques and Mentoring in three groups 40 min sessions rotating with Allan, Roger and Snez | |
3.30 pm: |
Seminar with Roger Corbett | |
4.30 pm: |
Seminar with Allan Caswell | |
5.30 pm: |
Dinner at the Katoomba RSL (Next door) Red Poppy Brasserie | |
7.30-10.00 pm: |
Songwriter performances at Hotel Blue | |
Coffee / Tea and biscuits available all day at the hotel | ||
Sunday 3rd November: |
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7:30: |
Continental Breakfast | |
8.45 am: |
APRA AMCOS session with Nikki Tuckwell | |
10 am: |
Co-writing sessions begin with Allan and Roger | |
11.30 am: |
Lunch at the Katoomba RSL Red Poppy Brasserie |
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1:00 pm: |
Co-writing sessions continue | |
3.30-5.30 pm: |
Performances of all songs co-written over the weekend | |
| Rooms can also be booked at the Clarendon Guesthouse walking distance from Hotel Blue | ||
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Allan Caswell - Multi award winning songwriterAt the 2024 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell received the ultimate accolade in Australian Country Music, when he was elevated to the Roll of Renown. At the 2020 Golden Guitar Awards, Caswell picked up his 8th Award. (with Manfred Vijars for Bush Ballad of the Year).Caswell is easily Australia's most recorded songwriter with over 960 of his songs being released around the world by artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, Patti Page, The Irish Rovers, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Barry Humphries, Lynne Hamilton, Beccy Cole, The Wolfe Brothers and Ella Hooper and more. In 1979 Caswell wrote the theme for the Australian television series "Prisoner" (Cell Block H in England)."On The Inside" was a number 1 hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1979 and later reached number 3 in the UK. Caswell has won 8 Golden Guitars from 48 nominations, winning 16 Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Assoc. including The Songmaker Award. 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards including Album of The Year for 3 of his albums. He was also included in Tamworth's Galaxy of Stars. He is the go-to cowriter for many of Australia's top artists. At the end of 2020 Caswell formed Lynchburg with multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Waddington, resulting in 3 albums and a whole string of top 10 country hits. |
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Roger Corbett - Multi award-winning songwriter and producerRoger is a long-time member of the Australian band The Bushwackers and has written and produced many of the bands albums. Now in their 50th year, in 2021 were elevated to The Roll Of Renown in Tamworth. Three Golden guitars, three 'Mo' Awards, four gold records. Roger has written or co-written many songs for both The Bushwackers and other artists.The General Manager of the CMAA Academy of Country Music, since 1998. Roger, with Director, Lyn Bowtell run two face-to-face residential courses in Tamworth for Junior and Senior students as well as the recent online course Academy X. The Valley Studio is a boutique recording studio for independent artists in the Hunter Valley producing the Bushwackers albums and many other award-winning albums. |
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Snez - Popular touring and recording singer-songwriterComing from a Macedonian working-class family, where stories about hardship, romance and work ethic have been passed down through generations, SNEZ has a talent for describing the experiences of everyday life in a way that resonates with people.In 2009, she released her debut album, appropriately entitled, "Gypsy Soul", and there began her journey as a travelling storyteller. With guitar in hand, she has spent the last 15 years roaming remote and regional Australia, finding enthusiastic audiences around campfires, at cattle stations, at nursing homes, refugee camps, cafes, pubs, living rooms and indigenous schools and squeezing her world into a campervan for months at a time. A regular artist at the National Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, St Albans Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and around her busy touring schedule, SNEZ is working on her 5th studio album with multi award-winning producer Stewart Peters. |
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Songsalive! Australia Roxanne Kiely President Ph: 0411 465 332 roxannekiely@songsaliveaustralia.org.au songsaliveaustralia.org.au |
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Tamworth Songwriters Assoc Duncan Hill President Ph: 0409 718 391 tamsongwriters@gmail.com Tamworth Songwriters Assoc. |
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