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	<title>UK Songwriting Festival &#124; Annual summer songwriting courses in Bath, UK</title>
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	<description>Songwriting festival for songwriters of all genres held every summer in Bath, UK</description>
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		<title>Songwriting Festival 2012 now booking &#8211; 12-17 August 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re delighted to announce that the UK Songwriting Festival 2012 will run from August 12th (evening) to August 17th 2012. This year the Festival is presented in partnership with our Scottish friends at Burnsong.org and is part-funded by Creative Scotland. The venue will be Shennanton House in Dumfrieshire. Our choice of venue is deliberately rural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2012/01/07/swf2012-the-venue/</link>
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		<title>SWF 2011 &#8211; and Masters Degree in Songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be resting the Songwriting Festival in 2011 due to major building work on the University campus, but will return in 2012. If you&#8217;re interested in studying Songwriting at Bath Spa University, our Masters Degree in Songwriting is now taking bookings. It includes a Distance Learning option, with two intensive weeks (in September and February) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/12/19/the-chatter-category/</link>
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		<title>Songwriting Festival 2010 – a word of thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear songwriters, Thanks to all (staff, volunteers, tutors, guest tutors, musicians, and songwriters) who contributed to the UK Songwriting Festival 2010. An amazing week and some top-notch writing. For those people I didn&#8217;t get to thank face to face during our busy final concert &#8211; you know who you are, and you know how essential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/26/songwriting-festival-2010-a-word-of-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Demo panel and songwriter chat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts from this year&#8217;s SWF2010 Songwriting demo panel, with our very special guest Eddi Reader.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/21/swf2010-songwriting-demo-panel/</link>
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		<title>Boo Hewerdine on songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SWF tutor Boo Hewerdine shares some of his thoughts on songwriting processes, and provides a few of his personal Dos and Don&#8217;ts. Interview by Rachel from the MA Songwriting group.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/20/boo-hewerdine-on-songwriting/</link>
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		<title>Eddi Reader &#8211; special guest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were delighted to welcome Eddi as our 2010 special guest tutor. Eddi joined our songwriters&#8217; panel, listened to new work written during the week, and performed a special one-off show for us here in Bath. Here&#8217;s her recent single &#8216;Dragonflies&#8217;.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/19/eddi-reader-dragonflies/</link>
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		<title>Parisian piggy banks rejoice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Heidi writes] I’ve been a songwriter and a teacher of songwriting for some time, but I still find it thrilling to witness the writing process of my fellow songwriters. At SWF you can hear songs being “born” at all times of the day (and night!). These songs are then performed a few hours later in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/19/songwriters-rejoice-the-big-piggy-bank-session/</link>
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		<title>Playing your songs with the house band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tutors and students talk about playing new songs with the house band.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/18/how-to-make-friends-with-the-swf2010-house-band/</link>
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		<title>Quick pics &#8211; SWF2010 day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few quick pics from a very eventful day 2. More to follow after tonight&#8217;s gig.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/18/quick-pics-day-3/</link>
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		<title>“Our father, wi ‘chart in ‘eaven…”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we began by looking at writing efficient chord charts. This is a mundane but essential part of the SWF because the band needs to be able to understand the structure of each new song quickly in order to create the best arrangement we can for each songwriter. (I explained a bit of the background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2010/08/17/our-father-wi-chart-in-eaven/</link>
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