New 6-Week Zoom Workshop! Songwriting for Sobriety, with Steve Wehmeyer

Ever wanted to write a song? In this six week Zoom workshop, we’ll explore how the craft of songwriting can be a tool for recovery from addiction, and help pave a path to a richer, deeper, creative life. You’ll learn skills, perceptions, tricks and tips used by professional songwriters to unblock your creativity and help you turn your stories into songs. We’ll also explore how the skills that make a good collaborative songwriting team are also tools for maintaining integrity, managing emotions, communicating openly, and staying sober.

Dates

Five Saturdays at 1 -2:30 PM starting February 20, 2021.

Please join us: space is limited!

To register, email writersforrecovery@icloud.com
Course Details to Come!

About Steve

A professional musician and songwriter for over 20 years, Steve Wehmeyer is a co-founding member of the contemporary Celtic band Gaelic Storm (featured as the “Steerage Band” in James Cameron’s Titanic). With an ASCAP catalog of 90 original songs and traditional adaptations and several film and television credits, in the course of his career Wehmeyer has co-written and recorded with Nashville notables like Mark Sanders, Tia Sillers, and Johnny Reid (Grammy and CMA winners); folk legend Nancy Griffith; Jim Creegan (guitarist for Rod Stewart); and a number of independent folk and Celtic acts around the country. Steve is currently also a college professor – with a deep and abiding interest in exploring the ways that the songwriting process can help folks who struggle with addiction recover their creativity, reclaim their voices, and sing their stories to the world.