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.
Mark Ellis is an accomplished songwriter and musician with over 20 years experience in the music industry. Mark first found success as the drummer in UK indie band Hamfatter. Hamfatter had hits in Austria and the UK independent charts in the early 2000’s and finally found fame by winning investment on Dragons Den in 2008.
Since then, Mark has been working on his songwriting craft under the stewardship of Boo Hewerdine, one of the UK’s most celebrated songwriters. Together Boo and Mark wrote songs that would used on one of of Mark’s big projects, Elma. Elma’s debut album Dreamland received critical acclaim and was rewarded with radio play on BBC 6 and BBC Scotland among many others. Elma then went on to tour with with Roy Wood and Boo Hewerdine before being picked up for a publishing deal with BMG Music.
Today, Mark is writing and performing as Fair Weather Son with all his recent singles
