Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 20th Aug, 2025
12:30pm - 4:30pm
Location
Glad Café, Glasgow , , G41 2HG
Join us for the first of two workshops at Glad Café!
These nurturing workshops will focus on form, melody, lyric and every element that’s involved in making a song. You can be working at any level and no experience is necessary; you don’t need to play an instrument.
The workshop will take place in Glad Café in Glasgow. There will be a maximum of 12 participants.
This workshop is part of a larger project called FIRST STAGES, a holistic music programme that will nurture songwriting seeds through workshops, online sessions, and a development programme. Learn more about it here. Please note, you can join these sessions as standalone events without joining the longer-term development programme.
Tutors
Boo Hewerdine is a singer-songwriter, musician, producer and experienced tutor and mentor. He has written songs
for Eddi Reader, k.d. lang, Chris Difford and many others. He has produced numerous albums, run a record label and been involved in music as a business for many years. His latest album, Understudy (a commercial and critical success), was released in 2022.
Caribbean-born Michele Stodart is an award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in London. She is best renowned as bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter of Mercury-nominated, double-platinum selling band, The Magic Numbers, with whom she continues to play and tour world-wide. Michele has also always pursued her own writing and nurtured a love for artists such as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch. She has released two critically acclaimed solo albums of cinematic folk/Americana, and melodic country-blues influenced songs and has become known for her intimate, heart-wrenching live performances. Her third solo album is due for release in September 2023.
