Group Songwriting Workshop Taught by Alice Osborn

Location : Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St, Durham, NC 27701

Room :IBM Rehearsal Studio

Date : Saturday, February 23, 2019

Time : 10:00 AM-11:30 AM on Sat

Level : Beginning

Tuition: $30.00 

Register HERE

Class Description :

For both beginners and advanced students. We will learn to connect personal experience and observations to write lyrics and melodies that matter to you and your audience. We will go over the basics of song structure, poetic sensibility, and melody building that will help beginning students start a song from scratch, and help advanced students develop songs they are already working on.

 

Alice Osborn

Alice Osborn’s past educational and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar and book editor. In the past 12 years, Alice has taught workshops to thousands of aspiring creatives of nearly all ages from 9 to 90 both around the corner and across continents. Heroes without Capes is her most recent collection of poetry and Old Derelicts is her most recent CD featuring crowd-pleasing favorite originals. Previous poetry collections are After the Steaming Stops and Unfinished Projects. A NC Writers’ Network, NC Poetry Society, and NC Songwriters Co-op board member and a Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in the News and Observer, The Broad River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Soundings Review and in numerous journals and anthologies. She’s currently working on a weird western novel and a full-length CD collection of historic folk originals. She also plays Celtic fiddle and bluegrass banjo. Alice lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, two children, and four birds. Visit Alice’s website at www.aliceosborn.com.

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