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SAW COMMUNITY
DAY
Date:
June 26, starting at 10:00am
Location: Lab at Convergence, Alexandria, VA (directions
below*)
Come join us for our
annual SAW Community Day, featuring many activities and tuneful
fun, and a great opportunity to get to know fellow songwriters.
Guests are more than
welcome!
10:00 - 12:30
Song Xchange – A session to work on songwriting technique,
welcoming
new Coordinator Kevin Dudley as our Guest Artist! Free.
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:30 Workshop - SUMMER SONGWRITER'S OIL, LUBE, &
TUNEUP
Rejuvenate your songwriting with workshops at two levels with GRAMMY
winners, SAW MASC winners, and 50+ WAMMIE winners Cathy Fink and
Marcy Marxer (read more about them at www.cathymarcy.com). We are
honored and excited to have BOTH Cathy and Marcy, who are seasoned
songwriting educators as well, presenting this workshop. We will
divide into two groups - Basic Songwriting and Advanced Songwriting.
Each group will work with Cathy or Marcy for an hour, and then swap.
Leave with new ideas for writing practice, and enough "homework"
to last ‘til the end of summer! This promises to be entertaining
AND enlightening!
We are offering SAW members special pricing for this not-to-be-missed
workshop. Cost if you are a SAW member and register in advance (by
June 25) is only $25 ($35 for BSA, WAMA, NSAI, and BMI members,
and $40 for the general public). Add $5 to each of these prices
if you register at the door. You will be able to pre-register at
the SAW website starting around June 5, until midnight June 25.
3:30 – 6:00 Presentations, Collaboration sessions,
and Jim Clark’s Song Challenge. Free
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner (pizza, salad, dessert)
- FREE for SAW members, $7.00 for guests. Watch your inbox for an
Evite for dinner--please RSVP so we’ll be sure to have enough
food!
7:00 – 8:00 SAW Annual Meeting (quick, lively,
and painless – trust us on this!)
8:00 – 11:00 Open Mic, great sound system!
Probably a two song limit. Free
All day long -
Silent Auction and Raffle(s). This was so popular last
year that we're doing it again! We’re seeking tax deductible
donations of music-related items. Musical instruments and music
gear are especially welcome, but we'd love to have services, too.
For example, are you a music teacher or graphic artist? Please consider
donating a lesson or a consulting session. For more info or to donate,
email Loralyn Coles at loralyn@mindspring.com. Some of what’s
donated so far (thanks all!):
• Music Video Recording at Lizrd Studios in Springfield, VA,
with VOA’s Gary Jaffe
• Casio CTK-471 Keyboard
• Charvel Electric Guitar
• Beautiful spinet piano, with a free tuning by Ginger Starling
of Northstar Pianos
Be looking for the Evite in your emailbox soon! Come for the day,
or any part of it--we’d certainly love to see you!
(*Directions: Convergence's
address is 1819 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria VA, at the intersection
with Crestwood Drive. The Lab is a brick building facing Crestwood.
It has no address on it, but 1781 Crestwood Drive pinpoints it in
Google Maps. Map: http://tinyurl.com/5wnz9g. Take the Shirlington
exit off of I-395 and follow the signs to Quaker Lane, then take
the second left on Crestwood Drive. The Lab at Convergence is the
first building on the left.)
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