Interested in a Songwriting Workshop?
Mary Gauthier is a Grammy Nominated songwriter whose songs have been praised by Bob Dylan and recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Bobby Bare, Kathy Mattea, Bettye Lavette and more! She’s been leading songwriting workshops around the world for over a decade.
Why write with me?
My method and style is to teach students how to dig deep into their inner selves to discover/uncover their own unique voice, and then effectively use this voice to compose original songs. Songwriters often have to push through firewalls of fear, confusion and self-doubt to effectively make sense of, and then articulate their truths in their songs, but the beauty of this challenging work is the discovery that the deeply personal is universal. Digging deep into our heart of hearts, we discover the whole world there.
Once we understand this and become willing to be vulnerable in our writing, our work can connect us to ourselves, to others, and to the world in ways we never could have imagined. These new connections inevitably bring us joy. We are returned to our own hearts through the sharing of our humanity with others. We go from feeling narrated, into narrating; from being the story, to becoming the storyteller. We become a witness, take a step back and observe, and experience our own story in powerful new ways when we write it and sing it. The space created in this act offers an opportunity to discover, name, and abandon self-defeating patterns. The uncovering and revealing of oneself in our human brokenness is the primary source of transformative beauty, the creation of art.
Songwriting Workshops: Essential Goals
SONGWRITERS OF ALL LEVELS OF EXPERTISE WILL LEARN TO:
Listen for their own unique "Writer's Voice"
Seek new levels of awareness in their songwriting
Truly listen to their lyric
Explore the relationships between melody, chord choices, song structure and lyrics
Break fear based writing patterns, take risks
upcoming songwriting workshop online:
NEW 2025 Online Workshop! Songwriting with Mary Gauthier
3-Day Master Class on Zoom from 10 AM, CDT to 4 PM, CDT (with a one hour lunch break in the middle of each day)
April 4th, 5th, and 6th
Capacity is limited to 15 songwriters, first come first serve. This class will sell out quickly.
The purpose of this class is to increase your overall understanding of the art and craft of song and give you valuable tools for your songwriting tool kit. The more tools you have, the better writer you become. Mary will give a lecture each day, answer questions, offer writing prompts, and provide feedback on one of your songs.
Mary has twenty years of experience working with songwriters in this way. Her new book on songwriting Saved by a Song on St. Martin’s Press has been called, “a Must-Read Music Book” by Rolling Stone Magazine.
This will be both a lecture class and student participation workshop. Mary will also listen to students’ songs and offer instruction. You will walk away from this workshop with insider songwriting knowledge that usually takes decades to figure out.
The three-day workshop is $1250, and capacity is limited to 15 songwriters, first come first serve.
Refund Policy: We are unable to offer refunds once registration is closed and the workshop is sold out but we will offer you a seat in the next workshop.
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