Jess Klein has toured the globe on her own and with Arlo Guthrie, Josh Ritter, John Fullbright, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Alejandro Escovedo. The New York Times calls her “A songwriter with a voice of unblinking tenacity.”
Jess co-founded Three Graces Songwriting Retreat in Asheville, NC with Abigail Dowd and Jane Kramer, and has co-led workshops in Nashville, Chapel Hill and Maryland with Jonathan Byrd, Wyatt Easterling, and Korby Lenker. She believes in the transformative power of song and is passionate about helping folks express their own truths through this compelling art form.
Native New Englander Jenny Reynolds has played the Old Settlers Music Festival, the Kerrville Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Club Passim, the Cactus Cafe, and the Bluebird Cafe, and has worked with BettySoo, Warren Hood, and Grammy winner Ruthie Foster. She was an Official Showcase Artist at SXSW 2008 and 2018.A trained teacher,
Reynolds taught private guitar lessons for 16 years, as well as basic acoustic, fingerstyle and fingerpicking guitar classes at the National Guitar Workshop and adult classes at the University of Texas.
Using exercises that focus on both lyrics and musicianship, this songwriting workshop will focus on how to keep your creative process moving. How can chord changes influence writing a bridge? How can the structure of the song influence how the story is told? Students can expect group activities and one on one time with instructors. We'll start at 10, take a 30 minute break for lunch, and finish up at 4PM. Students should be writing songs or very curious about starting. Bring your guitars. If you play a different instrument, you may need to bring amplification, such as a keyboard amp.
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Tickets to workshop include admission to song swap
Workshop runs 10am to 4pm with 30 minute break for lunch.
Tickets to workshop only OR workshop + song swap
Early bird pricing - $125 before November 1st
Regular pricing - $150
Song swap 7pm
Song swap only pricing - $25
