CAMMO Songwriting Workshop – Mar 8 & 9
Songwriting Workshop DC Area March 8 and 9, 2019
Arlington Cultural Affairs, 3700 S Four Mile Run Dr, Arlington, VA 22206
The Center for American Military Music Opportunities (CAMMO) is a unique music program that is open to active duty service members and veterans. This workshop will partner professional songwriters who will engage them in the creative process to tell their stories. Songwriting has been demonstrated to be an effective therapeutic tool to express thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a safe, supportive, and structured manner. CAMMO has been successfully supporting those recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other service connected disabilities for over 8 years. This workshop will be free to service members and veterans.
March 8, 2019
Evening reception: for songwriters, attendees, sponsors and CAMMO team
March 9, 2019
The Workshop:
- CAMMO will provide Professional songwriters, mental health professionals, music therapist, vocalists and musicians
- of 25 men and women participate in songwriting program from active duty and veterans
- Concert in evening with presentation of songs written with military service members-and veterans
- Workshop will be filmed
- Record selected songs
Why take the workshop?
- Craft meaningful work that feels like you.
- Can’t seem to finish (or start) songs.
- Are not a musician but are looking for a way to unlock your creativity.
- Identify, nurture, and refine the kind of artist or songwriter you hope to become.
- Understand how to write powerful lyrics, from the blank page in your notebook to your polished final draft.
- Discover song structure as a powerful tool to build a contract with the listener by communicating emotional intent.
- Develop the confidence and enjoyment for a lifetime of songwriting.
- Enjoy small group attention and valuable peer relationships that a small, hands-on workshop affords.
- Have something to say (and you want it to sound good).
- Would like to join a supportive community of peers with different styles and backgrounds who will push and encourage you to do your best work and with whom you can network for opportunities and support.
To Register: Complete the Registration Form and email to cathie@cammomusic.org
- Music as Therapy – What’s that?! Designed to be fun and informative, this interactive experience allows participants to learn about the various ways music can affect our brains, bodies, emotions, and relationships
About the writers:
ANDREW SHAPIRO is a composer and songwriter blending his two biggest musical influences: ’80s New Wave pop and Philip Glass minimalism.
Shapiro’s music is regularly played on radio worldwide, and he has been featured in The New Yorker, ABC News, CNN, The Independent (UK), Gramophone, and WNYC, BBC and KCRW radio. His cinematic, cascading piano track Mint Green has proved wildly popular with over 14 million plays on Pandora Internet Radio.
Pink Jean Mint Green, a synthpop album featuring Bash Street Worlds, in collaboration with author Neil Gaiman, was released in 2016.
His stirring and emotional synth-pop debut album, Invisible Days, was chosen as one of the “Top 12” independently produced recordings of 2003 by Performing Songwriter magazine. Shapiro’s three solo piano albums, Numbers, Colors and People, Intimate Casual and Piano 3, were created with Philip Glass producer Michael Riesman.
He has written original music for film and theater projects, and his music has appeared in a wide variety of national and international film and television productions ranging from reality TV to a Clio Award-winning spot for cancer awareness.
Other collaborations include Falls The Shadow with Daniil Simkin (at The Guggenheim Museum’s Works in Process series), Pink Jean Mint Green with Mario McNulty and Sterling Campbell, the Sundance Film Festival Award-winning documentary Watchers of the Sky, (dir. Edet Belzberg), the violin sonata The High Line with Gregory Fulkerson, and King Without a Crown with Mark Crozer of The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Shapiro has performed throughout America and Europe; highlights include The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), the Exit Festival (Serbia), TED, Bard College, Joe’s Pub, Gracie Mansion, The New Fall Festival (Dusseldorf), Bargemusic and the Wordless Music Series at Le Poisson Rouge, New York. He was also the subject of a profile in the New York Times entitled “Quarter Pounder With Keys,” describing his long-standing Sunday solo piano gig at McDonald’s in downtown Manhattan from 2004-2012.
Shapiro releases his recordings through Airbox Music, a label he founded in 2003. His music is published by Airbox Music Publishing, LLC (ASCAP).
Shapiro is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Raised in Larchmont, New York, he lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his wife and son.
About CAMMO: The Center for American Military Music Opportunities (CAMMO) is a 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009 by U.S. Navy veteran Cathie Lechareas and U.S. Army veteran Victor Hurtado that believes in the healing power of music. Run by veterans for veterans, active-duty service members and families. CAMMO provides music as therapy programs to help past and present service members with PTSD, TBI and other mental health, neurological disorders. CAMMO also develops military and veteran artists, technicians, writers and musicians. Through Soundtrack to Recovery in-reach program, CAMMO brings vocalists, musicians and volunteers to hospital Residential Treatment Center. For more information about CAMMO, visit www.cammomusic.org.