Join singer songwriter Sarah Gillespie and renowned guitarist, composer and improviser Chris Montague for an in person interactive workshop exploring how words and music can combine to create songs unique to you.

Sarah is a critically acclaimed Anglo-American songwriter whose work draws on folk, Americana, blues and poetry. Chris is one of the UK's most distinctive jazz guitarists and composers, known for his adventurous, genre-defying musicianship. He is also professor of Jazz Guitar at the Royal Academy of Music.
Drawing on their creative partnership and new duo album The Shieling, Sarah and Chris will share ideas and techniques for discovering your own poetic power and how to transform feelings into rhythm, harmony, and the musicality of language.

You'll work with images, rhythms and ideas to plays with lyrics, experiment with melody and try different chords, harmonies and musical shapes to change the feeling of a song. Sarah and Chris will also share ways to get unstuck and smash through some of the mind gremlins that can block creative flow.
You'll come away with tools for turning feelings and ideas into music, and writing lyrics that hit the ear, stay in the mind and could only come from you.

No previous musical training is required. Bring a song in progress, an idea, or simply a blank page. If you do play an instrument feel free to bring that along with a pen and notebook.

Website
www.sarahgillespie.com
www.chrismontaguemusic.com