Tag: Carpe Diem Arts
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Songwriting at Carpe Diem Arts Camp 2019
In my songwriting workshops at Carpe Diem Arts Camp this year, we focused on what it means to seize the day and wrote a collaborative song. Below is the recording we made after our two work sessions. As a songwriting teacher, I believe it’s important to talk about how to sing the song once it…
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Songwriting Workshop at Stedwick Elementary School
How spirit-lifting it was to walk into Mary Ruth McGinn’s classroom at Stedwick Elementary School and see a circle of third graders with their ukuleles, ready to write songs. Before my arrival, the teacher and I had already begun to give the students the experience of critique and revision—an essential part of the songwriting process.…