UK Songwriting Festival | Annual summer songwriting courses in Bath, UK » burnsong http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com Songwriting festival for songwriters of all genres held every summer in Bath, UK Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:18:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Songwriting Festival 2012 now booking – 12-17 August 2012 http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2012/01/07/swf2012-the-venue/ http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2012/01/07/swf2012-the-venue/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:05:39 +0000 admin http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/?p=1369 We’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 – so for a whole week you’ll have nothing do do except write, rehearse, record and perform songs. Bookings are now open and prices are heavily discounted but places are extremely limited. The Songwriting Festival 2012 is generally recommended for fairly experienced songwriters who have written a large number of songs (50 or more) and have performed their own material live, but we do provide support for less experienced writers.

Tutors include:

  • Boo Hewerdine
  • Iain Archer
  • Joe Bennett
  • Jez Ashurst
  • Andy White

Location


]]> http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2012/01/07/swf2012-the-venue/feed/ 0 Midge Ure on songwriting – and a Scottish songwriting competition http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/02/02/midge-ure-on-songwriting-and-a-scottish-songwriting-competition/ http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/2009/02/02/midge-ure-on-songwriting-and-a-scottish-songwriting-competition/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:45:11 +0000 admin http://www.uksongwritingfestival.com/?p=637 Here’s a video of Midge Ure (SWF special guest 2006) on songwriting, with some useful comments on clichÈ in his own first attempts at songwriting – hopefully this should give heart to some of our new writers!

Midge is patron of the Burnsong organisation, and will be working as a mentor on the Burnsong project (along with SWF’s own Joe Bennett) in November 2009. You can read more about this (and hear some of the songs) in Joe’s Burnsong 2007 blog.

Burnsong have announced entries for their 2009 songwriting competition, which closes on 21st August (the last day of SWF 2009, coincidentally).

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