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Songwriter Workshop – Expanding Your Musical Horizons with World Music Techniques and Inspirations

The Cary Arts Center 101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC, United States

In this workshop for songwriters, composers and instrumentalists, students will learn the nuances of combining diverse cultural and musical styles to create unique fusions and musical inspirations. The instructors will share concepts about global rhythms and scales and answer questions that students may have on a variety of topics related to world music. Please bring your instruments if you would like to play.

Songwriter Workshop – Expanding Your Musical Horizons with World Music Techniques and Inspirations

The Cary Arts Center 101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC, United States

In this workshop for songwriters, composers and instrumentalists, students will learn the nuances of combining diverse cultural and musical styles to create unique fusions and musical inspirations. The instructors will share concepts about global rhythms and scales and answer questions that students may have on a variety of topics related to world music. Please bring your instruments if you would like to play.

Chuck Brodsky and Wyatt Easterling

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, songwriter, troubadour, and a modern day bard. With only his acoustic guitar and his voice he’ll draw you in with genuine, down-to-earth warmth and his quirky, finely crafted songs. Using wit and irony, set to haunting melodies, he tells the stories of oddball and underdog characters through his syncopated guitar strumming or sweet finger-picking. His songs celebrate the goodness in people—the eccentric, holy, profound, courageous, inspiring, and the beautiful. They poke fun at what needs to be poked, and sometimes they challenge. They’re sworn to tell the truth.

"In Nashville, there's nothing a songwriter likes better than a co-writer with a broken heart." A quote Easterling laughingly coined. "You can really mine that for great stuff. That said, I had been going through some major life changes myself and had my own stuff to mine. In the process of writing songs I discovered, for the umpteenth time, that life is about facing change and embracing it.” With that as a backdrop, Wyatt’s 2014 release, Goodbye-Hello was launched.

Chuck Brodsky and Wyatt Easterling

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, songwriter, troubadour, and a modern day bard. With only his acoustic guitar and his voice he’ll draw you in with genuine, down-to-earth warmth and his quirky, finely crafted songs. Using wit and irony, set to haunting melodies, he tells the stories of oddball and underdog characters through his syncopated guitar strumming or sweet finger-picking. His songs celebrate the goodness in people—the eccentric, holy, profound, courageous, inspiring, and the beautiful. They poke fun at what needs to be poked, and sometimes they challenge. They’re sworn to tell the truth.

"In Nashville, there's nothing a songwriter likes better than a co-writer with a broken heart." A quote Easterling laughingly coined. "You can really mine that for great stuff. That said, I had been going through some major life changes myself and had my own stuff to mine. In the process of writing songs I discovered, for the umpteenth time, that life is about facing change and embracing it.” With that as a backdrop, Wyatt’s 2014 release, Goodbye-Hello was launched.

David LaMotte featuring Bill West

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

David LaMotte is an award-winning songwriter, speaker and writer. He has performed over 3000 concerts and released twelve full-length CDs of primarily original music, touring in all of the fifty states, as well as five of the seven continents. The Boston Globe writes that his music “pushes the envelope with challenging lyrics and unusual tunings, but he also pays homage to folk tradition,” while BBC Radio Belfast lauds his “charm, stories, humour, insightful songs, sweet voice and dazzling guitar ability.”

David LaMotte featuring Bill West

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

David LaMotte is an award-winning songwriter, speaker and writer. He has performed over 3000 concerts and released twelve full-length CDs of primarily original music, touring in all of the fifty states, as well as five of the seven continents. The Boston Globe writes that his music “pushes the envelope with challenging lyrics and unusual tunings, but he also pays homage to folk tradition,” while BBC Radio Belfast lauds his “charm, stories, humour, insightful songs, sweet voice and dazzling guitar ability.”

David LaMotte Songwriting and Music Business Workshop

The Cary Arts Center 101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC, United States

In this Songwriting Workshop David will discuss various techniques for approaching and constructing songs, and unblocking writer’s block. He will also take questions on any topic students choose, including the music business, book publishing, and activism.

David LaMotte Songwriting and Music Business Workshop

The Cary Arts Center 101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC, United States

In this Songwriting Workshop David will discuss various techniques for approaching and constructing songs, and unblocking writer’s block. He will also take questions on any topic students choose, including the music business, book publishing, and activism.

Jack Williams and Still on the Hill

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

Jack is considered a "musician's musician", an uncommonly unique guitarist, a writer of vivid songs with a strong sense of place, and a storyteller in an old Southern tradition who further illustrates each tale with his guitar. Rich Warren of WFMT Chicago's The Midnight Special said, "His artistry is nothing short of amazing". Vic Heyman, in SING OUT!, wrote, “He is one of the strongest guitar players in contemporary folk.”

These musicians have grafted the wild climbing vines of bluegrass, folk, classical and mountain music onto the hardiest of Ozark rootstock. The result is yet-to-be-named hybrid music that compels people to stop and listen, to pause in their hectic lives and pay attention to something they’ve never heard before. It’s magic and there’s simply not enough magic in the world today.

Jack Williams and Still on the Hill

The Cary Theater 122 East Chatham Street, Cary, NC, United States

Jack is considered a "musician's musician", an uncommonly unique guitarist, a writer of vivid songs with a strong sense of place, and a storyteller in an old Southern tradition who further illustrates each tale with his guitar. Rich Warren of WFMT Chicago's The Midnight Special said, "His artistry is nothing short of amazing". Vic Heyman, in SING OUT!, wrote, “He is one of the strongest guitar players in contemporary folk.”

These musicians have grafted the wild climbing vines of bluegrass, folk, classical and mountain music onto the hardiest of Ozark rootstock. The result is yet-to-be-named hybrid music that compels people to stop and listen, to pause in their hectic lives and pay attention to something they’ve never heard before. It’s magic and there’s simply not enough magic in the world today.