Music is a magical place to pour sorrow and find joy. Singing heals, and songs change the world. Songs play a spiritual and intellectual role in society, of profound and lasting benefit to humanity, as well as to the individual creator. Sometimes I am still surprised to realize I have become a songwiter!
I was a Creative Writing major in first year university and somehow got swept away in the Management Training program of a major bank. I reinvented myself as an artist after a successful 15 year career in the financial services industry. I persue my art the way I vote, diligently with thought, research and any required hard work put into it. I do it with gratitude that I am able to; and with the intent to make my voice heard, to make my mark in society, and to do my bit to improve the world, ha...
I also write as my own personal therapy and to find out what I think!
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To connect to an audience, I will continue to find unique venues and celebrity guests for the increasing number of song circle events. I will play my original songs at upcoming uke workshops at Long and McQuade. I will busk, attend open stages, including the Tranzac’s Composer’s workshop and seek opening gigs. The relationships I plan to develop also include tours of some recording studios of profile including Bob Wiseman’s at the Tranzac and John Dinsmore’s called Lincoln County.
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The final project will be different from the submitted audio examples in that the musicality will be improved, enhanced and more diverse. Through the investment of time, care and attention on behalf of the artist, as well as the investment of expertise and talent from a growing community of musicians and co-writers, song structures are expected to become more intriguing and more interesting, with more variety tune to tune as well as more proficient musicianship even in solo performances.
List of Participants: Kim Logue, Principal Songwriter and Singer, uke, and rhythm guitar player, possible future piano player, and volunteer coordinator of Writers Group meetings.
Applicant Bio:
An established poet, Kim Logue has published song lyrics in literary anthologies, while managing/promoting other musicians. A mostly-self-taught artist, writer and music journalist, she is also an award winning broadcast journalist and producer of the syndicated hoofbeats! radio show founded at 93.3 FM in Guelph. With some performance and voice coaching under her belt, she dabbles in uke and guitar and hopes to learn to play piano.
Audio Support Material
These two tracks are recent recordings of original material. The first recording is the first time I have tried to play my own guitar instead of relying on more established players, and, basic as it sounds, it marks a progression in confidence and ability. The second tune is audio extracted from a laptop video, documenting a group songwriting exercise, live off the floor. It’s also included for its timeline and for its illustration of the direction of the project, in terms of the progression as a musician and specifically in the related ability to collaborate with other more proficient musicians, as well as the use SAC meetings to create whole new tunes during a meeting.
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The project that will be completed with this grant includes the creation of a minimum of 7 new songs, a “Home Street” songbook. The new tunes may reflect the access to a piano after August 1 and are to compliment existing catalogue towards a full length album for recording fall 2012. The grant will cover living expenses as well as artistic costs such as music lessons, choir costs and band practice. Milestone events are to include the SAC Guelph Regional Writer’s group meetings, which will be ramped up to meet every other week Sept- November 2011. Once a month we will do a songwriters in the round with feedback and once a month we will work on a group song. I will also be seeking bandmates as co-writers and in support of aspirations for recordings and gigs in future.
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I was a Creative Writing major in first year university and somehow got swept away in the Management Training program of a major bank. I reinvented myself as an artist after a successful 15 year career in the financial services industry. I persue my art the way I vote, diligently with thought, research and any required hard work put into it. I do it with gratitude that I am able to; and with the intent to make my voice heard, to make my mark in society, and to do my bit to improve the world, ha...
I also write as my own personal therapy and to find out what I think!
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To connect to an audience, I will continue to find unique venues and celebrity guests for the increasing number of song circle events. I will play my original songs at upcoming uke workshops at Long and McQuade. I will busk, attend open stages, including the Tranzac’s Composer’s workshop and seek opening gigs. The relationships I plan to develop also include tours of some recording studios of profile including Bob Wiseman’s at the Tranzac and John Dinsmore’s called Lincoln County.
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The final project will be different from the submitted audio examples in that the musicality will be improved, enhanced and more diverse. Through the investment of time, care and attention on behalf of the artist, as well as the investment of expertise and talent from a growing community of musicians and co-writers, song structures are expected to become more intriguing and more interesting, with more variety tune to tune as well as more proficient musicianship even in solo performances.
List of Participants: Kim Logue, Principal Songwriter and Singer, uke, and rhythm guitar player, possible future piano player, and volunteer coordinator of Writers Group meetings.
Applicant Bio:
An established poet, Kim Logue has published song lyrics in literary anthologies, while managing/promoting other musicians. A mostly-self-taught artist, writer and music journalist, she is also an award winning broadcast journalist and producer of the syndicated hoofbeats! radio show founded at 93.3 FM in Guelph. With some performance and voice coaching under her belt, she dabbles in uke and guitar and hopes to learn to play piano.
Audio Support Material
These two tracks are recent recordings of original material. The first recording is the first time I have tried to play my own guitar instead of relying on more established players, and, basic as it sounds, it marks a progression in confidence and ability. The second tune is audio extracted from a laptop video, documenting a group songwriting exercise, live off the floor. It’s also included for its timeline and for its illustration of the direction of the project, in terms of the progression as a musician and specifically in the related ability to collaborate with other more proficient musicians, as well as the use SAC meetings to create whole new tunes during a meeting.
2. Hey Sister = written by Kim Logue, Roelf Zantige, Barry Parsons, Bonnie Cumming etc. performed by the aforesaid Regional Writers Group members that collaborated and co-wrote the tune at the March 2011 meeting, recorded on Mac laptop
Hey Sister, I don’t know where you are But we’re never far apart You’re always in my heart
Oh Sister, Skies of icy blue Make me think of you Do you miss me too?
instrumental, then bridge: I can hear us laugh Gazing at a photograph
Ah sister, Though I may not see Who you want to be Just be you and I’ll be me.
1. The Way The World Turns = written by Kim Logue folk acoustic guitar and vocal performed by Kim Logue Feb 2011 and recorded by Sean Paddison.
G Em C Am (stacato strum, like drum, hit base notes!) I wish to be in London but I’m afraid to fly Another 9/11 finds my heart desperate to try
chorus: G Em C D (up and down strum) And the world just keeps on turning, millions of wasted lives Imagining how we could be, is the way I’m wasting mine
Why’d you have to leave me? Did I make you turn away? Our meeting may mean nothing to you, but lightening struck me that day. chorus Its always the same old story. Unrequited love. Want to write a new chapter now, that lets us travel on. Chorus, tag last two lines as outro
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The project that will be completed with this grant includes the creation of a minimum of 7 new songs, a “Home Street” songbook. The new tunes may reflect the access to a piano after August 1 and are to compliment existing catalogue towards a full length album for recording fall 2012. The grant will cover living expenses as well as artistic costs such as music lessons, choir costs and band practice. Milestone events are to include the SAC Guelph Regional Writer’s group meetings, which will be ramped up to meet every other week Sept- November 2011. Once a month we will do a songwriters in the round with feedback and once a month we will work on a group song. I will also be seeking bandmates as co-writers and in support of aspirations for recordings and gigs in future.
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Q3a) The impact on the art form, specifically on these project songs is a chance to incorporate recent and future feedback from Regional Writer’s Group Meetings. Suggestions on where to add a bridge, finetune and/or add verses so that each story is more clearly told, as well as learning to take a verse up an octave and/or learn to sing harmony parts for a chorus. Piano, mandolin and uke will feature as main instruments for the first time. The impact on community will include more collaborating with fellow musicians and seeking bandmates to enhance the complexity and quality of the overall musicianship. The impact of the grant on myself as an artist will be similar to the impact of the recently received royalty cheque, that reinstated my belief that songs can make money. Also note that I will gladly acknowledge OAC’s support by placing the OAC logo on all printed promotional material such as press releases, programs and websites. The impact of this is added credibility to my endeavours as a songwriter.
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