SONGWRITING
Findlay Napier is one of the finest singer songwriters and teaching artists in Scotland. His collaborations with Boo Hewerdine (VIP and Glasgow) brought his supreme songwriting and storytelling gifts, allied with magpie-minded imagination and magnificent vocals to the attention of audiences across the UK, Europe and North America. Recently he has co-written and toured with Texan singer-songwriter Rebecca Loebe for their Filthy Jokes EP; with Bella Hardy and Greg Russell on War and Peace and with Megan Henwood on their Story Song Scientist project. As a teacher Findlay has run songwriting retreats at Moniack Mhor with Karine Polwart and in 2016 he set up the workshop-focused Glasgow Songwriting Festival.
Findlay can assist with all areas of songwriting from idea generation through to the finished song. You may want to work on something you’ve already written or to start on something together from a blank page. He can help with lyrics, melody, chord choice and song structure. He can also offer practical advice on recording, live performance and release plans if you want to take your writing from your living room and out into the world. Findlay has lots of experience teaching, co-writing and collaborating with songwriters of all abilities. He has worked with songwriters suffering from writer’s block, folks restarting their songwriting after a break and people who have never written a song before. You don’t have to play a musical instrument or be “musical” to write a song.
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