Songwriting: Roddy Woomble & Kathryn Williams, Guest: Rachel Sermanni

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 20th Feb - Sat 25th Feb, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT

Finding new roads.

Spend a week at Moniack Mhor with two experienced musicians and songwriters to explore the mysterious idea of songs and songwriting. Why do we do it, what does it mean? We’ll talk about our favourite music, and through exercises and co-writing, find new roads into songwriting and overcome the fear of the blank page.

Roddy Woomble was born in Ayrshire in 1976. He is the lead vocalist in Idlewild as well as an accomplished solo musician. Idlewild have released eight acclaimed albums, two of which debuted in the UK top ten. They have toured throughout the world, as a headline act, and also as support to REM, U2 and the Rolling Stones amongst others. Roddy’s solo work totals three albums and includes collaborations with Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby and Ian Carr. In 2007, Roddy was behind the Ballads of the Book project, which brought together writers and musicians to create an album which was released on Chemikal Underground Records.

Kathryn Williams is an acclaimed Liverpool-born, Newcastle-based singer and songwriter who made her recorded debut with Dog Leap Stairs. In 2000 its follow-up Little Black Numbers earned her a Mercury Prize nomination. She has performed and toured widely ever since working with the likes of John Martyn, The Bombay Bicycle Club and Ray LaMontagne. Her successive albums received widespread critical praise, including 2013’s Crown Electric and 2015’s Hypoxia, inspired by The Bell Jar and produced by Ed Harcourt. Kathryn will be judging the Ted Hughes Poetry Awards in 2017 and is working with Carol Ann Duffy and author, Laura Barnett.Rachel Sermanni: The music of Folk-Noir Balladeer,

Rachel Sermanni has the flesh of Folk but, if you were to cut the skin, you’d find it pumped with a contemporary, genre melding blood. Born under a rainbow, Rachel Sermanni has grown into a writer, musician and artist. In all that she creates, it seems, there remains a preservation of the pure and mystical, symbolic in that beam of fragmented light that shone, 24 sun-spun years ago

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