Week 1 Overview of Songwriting Activity

To answer the questions of where I am on my songwriting journey and what do I hope to achieve from the Berklee course:

• been a part-time singer-songwriter for 25 yrs
• 2 commercial releases
• CBC play and some commercial radio
• won several international songwriting contests
• lots of performing over the years, Western Canada and Ontario
• writes acoustic guitar-centered folk music, with jazz and classical inspirations
• am taking most of a year off beginning in June to re-energize and devote myself to art, so am looking for songwriting collaborations to broaden the styles in my catalog
• also doing creative writing -  just finished a lyric ballad, a short story all told in rhyme, which is about 4000 words and was a blast to write - plan to put music behind it and record me reading it as a self-published an audio book

Here's a link to a youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVzhywgApw

Here's a link to the lyric and sound clip of the song that won some awards

 http://larkspurmusic.com/rubber-galoshes-lyric.shtml

 Here's my website where you can hear song clips and read lyrics. 

 

www.larkspurmusic.com