Archive Archive • Past Workshops
SONGWRITING:
• Finding your writer’s voice
• Singer-songwriter’s toolkit
• Language of improvisation
• Groove, rhythm & genre
• Authenticity
• Soul-inspired song
• Writing for diverse instruments
• Recording & publishing
ACOUSTIC GUITAR:
• Fundamentals for beginners
• Support for the self-taught
• Body mechanics & hand health
• Fingerstyle – folk, blues, country
• Classic folk/rock repertoire
• Rhythm & harmony
PERFORMANCE:
• Stagecraft • Confidence
• Repertoire • Band skills
• Preparing for recording
• Public Speaking • Career support •
shops
SUNDAY AUG 2nd - Workshop 2-5:30pm
An afternoon for exploring, hearing, and expressing
the music of the abundant river of Sound and Meaning that surrounds us. Deepen your authentic voice.
Hone your song-making skills in a supportive circle
of creative musicians. All levels of experience welcome.
We'll begin stepping in to Sources with voice, sound,
movement, word play and improvisation exercises.
And journey through and turn to the Living World
for examples receiving, claiming, releasing, shaping, editing,
and completing original work.
Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a journal
and your favorite pen, a healthy tea-time snack
and a song or question about which you’ve been puzzling.
Suggested donation $25-$50 sliding scale.
SUNDAY @ 6:30pm POTLUCK!
8pm CONCERT!
Judith-Kate Friedman in concert with
special guest Daniel Deardorff
New songs - Group singing - Latest news
on 'Songwriting Works on the Olympic Peninsula Project'
Benefit for Songwriting Works
$12-$25 donation. No one turned away
Rosewind is Wheelchair accessible
and a Fragrance-Free zone
For info and to r.s.v.p.: 360.643.1961
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INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS BY APPT
What would float your musical boat?
Is there some skill or aspect of singing, songwriting
or performing that you’d like to develop?
A project you’re working on with which you’d like support?
What’s your musical dream, your vision?
Your next step? Call and let’s explore
creating a session or series of sessions that will give you
what you need to get there.
SATURDAY MAY 3rd
VOCAL PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP:
SINGING for ACTORS, ACTING for SINGERS
Never before offered in PT, this workshop is explicitly intended for the theater community – those already performing and those 'on the verge.'
Increase your confidence, precision and presence
on stage. Sing with power and authenticity
in character.....
Cost: $40 per person, $30 for KCPT members,
$25 for KCPT "Scrooge" cast.
For more information and registration, visit:
Key City Public Theatre's Website (click here!)
Or phone: 360.385.1160
All levels of experience welcome.
Prepare a piece with which you'd like coaching.
MAY 21-JUNE 16
VOCAL SKILLS CLASS
at the SONG STUDIO
5 Weeks - THURSDAYS, 4-6pm
Tools, technique and a place to practice for singers of all levels.
Gainconfidence, precision, ease. TOPICS include:
--Vocal health --Breath & body mechanics
--Range, tone & expression --Ear training
--Solo and ensemble singing --Diction & pitch precision
--Blending & harmony
--Stagecraft: presence & character
--Improvisation
$85-$140 Sliding Scale. LifeDollars accepted.
Registration opens May 1st. Phone: 360.385.1160
or email: info@judithkate.com
JUNE 20, CELEBRATING THE EMBODIED VOICE
Madrona MindBody Institute, 2-5pm
A Sound & Movement Feast to Welcome Summer!
Awaken your body-as-instrument!
Weaving individual voices into group rhythm, harmony, and community in a Great Dance, we will welcome the summer
delighting body/mind and soul in an encouraging, “failure-free” environment. Come sing open your heart and life in
an afternoon of making beauty inside and out.
Gain confidence and new skills through toning,
presence-chanting, sonic layering, body-soundscapes
and vocal/gestic improvisations. Learn skills to increase vocal health, breath techniques, pitch precision,
ease and freedom of expression.
Create sonic and visual touchstones as we
celebrate and integrate to welcome the sun!
$55 Sliding scale available.
www.madronamindbody.com
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• Songwriter’s Work-in-Progress Exchange •
co-hosts: Judith-Kate Friedman and Matt Sirceley
in conjunction with the West Coast Songwriters Ass’n
Wednesdays 7-9pm
May 20
June 10
Resuming again in the fall season
Location: 824 Grant St #1, entrance off 9th street,
just off Sheridan in Port Townsend.
Free.
(Donations for the space gratefully accepted.)
Call for info & directions. 360/385-1160
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updated 8-1-09