Register online or call 443-622-2369 for these five 75-minute sessions, one each morning June 23-27 at 10:30-11:45 am ET. From the beginner to the experienced writer, making real songs means respecting your inspiration and learning some technique. This course will motivate you, provide constructive feedback, teach some basic composition skills, and improve your writing at whatever level you are. Speak your mind in an artistic and convincing way, with humor, anger, poetic and musical artistry, storytelling, character and facts, and be understood clearly. Sing Out! calls Rod “A modern day troubadour of the people and for the people.”
Interactive songwriting workshop, via zoom, hosted by Common Ground On The Hill, a summer arts camp at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. Excellent faculty with classes in many traditional instruments--guitar, bass, drums, violin, mandolin, banjo--plus arts and crafts, all taught by full-time professionals. Classes in-person and online; this workshop is online. From the CGOTH catalog: Songwriting with Rod MacDonald Instructor bio: Rod MacDonald was a 20-year headliner in Greenwich Village clubs and concerts, with 21 songs in the Smithsonian collection of American Music, and is a co-founder of the Greenwich Village Folk Festival. His 14 albums include 2023’s “Rants And Romance,” which made the national Folk DJ top ten; and his songs, such as “American Jerusalem”, “A Sailor’s Prayer” “White Buffalo” and “Every Living Thing,” have been recorded by Shawn Colvin, Dave Van Ronk, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Four Bitchin’ Babes, Joe Jencks, and many other artists. Rod began “Songwriting for Self-Expression” at the NY Open Center and Common Ground on The Hill, and since 2006, has been “Music Americana” instructor in Florida Atlantic University’s Osher/LLS program, where he was named Distinguished Faculty Member in 2012.
Register online or call 443-622-2369.