SAC meeting notes

the check marks indicate things i was able to bring up for discussion...

it felt good to share the story of "Guelph Speaks" getting me underway as a recording artist lol.

Next Times

i think it would be legit for me to say "i'm performing at a few festivals this year," what with my hillside workshop coming up and the eden mills art festival gig that past...

in the meantime, here's some "notes to self" for next time...

Shepherd's Pub, Elora

Well, wasn't that nice?

after Peter's songs, he packed up his guitar right away, so I boldly asked Sarah the host if I could use hers.  Wasn't it funny that there was no volume for a bit because I hadn't plugged in? ha.

It was really awesome to play with a band.  Drums, bass, pedal steel, fine fine electric guitar, and me on rhythm/acoustic electric guitar.

A fellow jammer, the waiter and at least one other person used the word "beautiful" about the songs I did.  Are they just being encouraging?

We did the L&N and then Rocky Spine.  It was especially fun to give them all a look to s t o p, and then sing one more line.

On the drive home, Peter gave me the best compliment of all
"oh, the band knew where YOU were going."

I'm so grateful we could get out for this adventure together!

What A Great Uke Circle Experience!

I didn't have to ride my bike over there, I was pleased to hop in a carpool!

I was informed on arrival that I wasn't on the list to perform 12-1.  But, I did get to sound check and we played together to Miss Ohio!  What a great experience to learn to ask to hear one's own vocal in the monitor etc.  That Gwen was awesome on Viola!!

I got to walk around and enjoy the amazing work of the artists!  I announced from the stage that their cool initative of getting a ballot initialled by each artist was very cool, but that the work was so great I was seeking autographs and KEEPING MY BALLOT ha.

Then I returned to our beautiful venue the Meadow!  I love the garden walls....  and, I wished I'd taken a snap of the audience once they arrived and settled and in, organically rearranging the furniture...  for most of the show there were more guitars on stage than people in the audience lol.

Some would say it was Peter and Gwen Potter that stole the show, and it's true they were professional and fun to listen to... I don't think he minded that I made him a merch table with mailing list and mentioned his CD's for sale for $10 when it was my turn on stage.

I enjoyed Chris's version of the Elizabeth Cotten song Freight Train as the highlight of the day!

My set list

= literally unsayable to drum circle, finger picking

= miss ohio as sing along to drum circle

at 1:38 the sound man turned on my vocal mic!

= love call as sing along with uke play-along and sing-along chorus

electric uke too! but i couldn't hear it in my monitor very well...

I Will Always Love You

it was fun to get a chance to play with Peter and Gwen again to:

If Wishes Were Horses

Not Going Down That Way

She Wore Flowered Dresses

(I also told a silly story about the best party that ever happened in Guelph, when Slaid Cleaves did the backyard house concert ha)

The Forgotten Intro

hi, my name is kim logue and i come out to these things looking for someone to collaborate with, given my level of musicality.  i don't read music, and i am a beginner at playing it, but i have done a lot of work to find a voice.  now i am going to play you a song i have never tried in our club before, on my kala concert uke.  its a slaid cleaves song, She Wore Flowered Dresses, are we allowed to do covers?

if you want to sing or play along i would love that.  i really lake to make it up along the way, especially singing with other people.

 the song structure is simply
verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus
verse = C F Am G X 4
 chorus = F G C C X 2
F G C F
F G C C.

here's how i do it....

A Bit about Patti G

I had the history of her first two albums backwards in my mind!

And, I didn't  know that A&M released a stripped-down reworking of her demo tape, as an album called Living with Ghosts. instead of what she'd recorded with Dan Lanois in Nawlins. Griffin's second album, 1998's Flaming Red was a departure from the acoustic sound of Living with Ghosts, with a mix of mellow songs along with other, very high tempo rock and roll songs.

Swoon:
I think this is a really well written and well laid out bio
http://www.pattygriffin.net/PattyBio.html

quotes to consider

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/03/shelby_lynne_brings_revelation.html


"I never have more fun than when I play a show with just me and a guitar," she said during telephone interview last week. "Playing with a band is great, too, when everyone is hooked into each other, but there's something about a solo shown that's very intimate, kind of like a date."

comes out good, I'll keep going. It gave me a lot of confidence."
She added that she didn't let "not being the best musician in the world" affect the songs negatively, but rather used it as an opportunity to let the songs shine on their own, without a lot of fancy trappings.
"This situation was pretty limited as far as the licks I could play," she said. "But I've played with some of the best players in the world, and sometimes they play too good, you know? Sometimes you want to tell them, 'play a little less good on that part.' So I just tried to complement each song the best I could with playing that doesn't get in the way."

Kim Logue, Artist Bio

With a beautiful voice, natural rhythm, and an irresistible lifelong affinity for all things musical, Kim Logue is finally turning her efforts to developing her own songs and ability with a variety of instruments.  With an application for a FACTOR award, still pending with its second jury, Kim Logue hopes to record some new song demos in 2012.  Established as a poet, commissioned film maker, emcee, award-winning broadcaster, artist manager, fun dancer, papermaker, loud laugher, community builder, and writer... the musical future looks bright for this artist.

Upcoming Events:
May 26 & 27 Eden Mills Arts Festival

Recent Performance Highlights:
Uke Songs
- a 2011 series of novice singalong ukulele workshops at Cambridge/Stratford Long & Mcquade Stores
Songwriters Association of Canada, Guelph Regional Writers Group Meetings 

-- especially, Hillside Performing Arts Tent, Songwriting Workshop Host, 2011

Donkey Day,
-- with Trish Henry, main stage, 2010

See notes re: Additional Breadth of Experience Details

Creation of Audio Support Material

The Way the World turns was really re-worked magically by Sean eh? I did not even give him a good take!  Have you listened to the before and after I posted on myspace?  I submitted both the before and after tracks in my FACTOR submissions.

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Cubase 5.5, Apogee Duet (interface) and Neumann TLM103 microphone, Universal Audio Plugins for processing

Not like this witness didn't point that all out to me, ha.  I was glad for the company on the adventure!

We delivered his CD to a bunch of my favourite city record shops and hten both played a couple songs at an open stage, before heading out of the big city!

Nov 2010 Minutes, 2 meetings

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CMW Conference 2010

I was so happy when the Songwriters Association of Canada gave me a free pass to Canadian Music Week, that I snapped a picture to commemorate the moment in the beautiful Royal York Hotel (restroom) in Toronto, Ontario.

Who knew I was about to run into a good buddy from G-town!  We had just collaborated on my song Winter Blues the Guelph Regional Writers Group Meeting before that ...

Jerry got his pass from C.F.R.U. Guelph's Campus and Community Radio station.




p.s.

I was really relieved that my CD/lyric sheet wasn't pulled out for the Song Evaluations

First of all, at these things they only seem to look at the words. That bababa baby is only about the melody and sing along fun. People love it. But I couldn't take an evaluation from those folks in a room that big like that. Why did I even put one in the box?

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Other thoughts for the SAC ? More song structure commentary, more explanation of what is happening, including more feedback on anything that's working...

New Year's Day Eve Music drop in

Boxing Day Jam Glow

I was happy to have brought an instrument!!!

"A big thank you to everyone who came by to make merry - it was the groovin'est, jam-sing ever with the GRS (Guelph Rhythm Section - Adam and Jesse) lockin' in, and the welcome addition of soprano sax and a plenitude of ukes. At the population peak (Locomotion?) the place was so loud with voices I couldn't hear my guitar! Love it, love it, love it.  Looking forward to the next one near summer solstice - we'll let you know when we set a date.
A big lovin' hug . . . and happy 2012 to all!"

more notes to Self?

The 10 min audio file I've sent along to Martyn to see if he wants to learn to edit using that. ha. I thought it might be fun to edit the part about the L&M coupons and sent it with the proposal requesting support for the 2012 series...

Any other thoughts or comments? (thank you for the metrome for sale link, yes.)

intro to event feedback request
Martyn intro
Weightless again
sign up sheets
papermaking merch
There's lots of me killing time about the monitor not working while chatting about lovecall, ha.  And lots of broadcast of shop talk, and one loud feedback kerfuffle.

Minutes, December 6, 2011

This was the first night the venue had it set up just for us, with no complications around our start time.  I counted about 35 folks in the bar at once, at the busiest time.  We raised a tiny bit of money for the L&M charity effort for KIDSLink.

"I played a cover song while we worked out sound check tests and such.  Weightless Again by the Handsome Family. I meant to introduce this first song by saying that I LIKE to include cover songs at a songwriters open stage, and maybe even talk about some of the song structure or the chord change I don't have down yet, ha, etc.  If it wasn't a mini stage, I would have wanted to invite other musicians to join in...

And, I meant also to mention that if I ever ask someone to work on the tune with me they eventually YELL at me for it because the song is so sad.  So, I wanted to do it all the way through once where no one will interrupt or stop me, ha.

Even without listening back to the cfru-device recorded audio, I know I wasn't effective in asking for feedback on these things.  I also lost the nerve to ask if the song is too politically incorrect to be performed in public or what.

The we did Love Call, uke style and everyone sang along and pretended they liked it!  Yay, team!!

And then I borrowed an electric guitar, because its fun to, and Peter Light's kindness that evening allowed it, and I did The Way The World Turns, with imaginary solos from other musicians ha.

"Hey Kim,  Thanks so much for all the hard work 
and thought you put into organizing 
and footing this 4 week event. 
I think many folks gained experience 
and insight from this."

"I absolutely second the THANKS-TO-KIM! 
And Jerry, you as well. Thanks for taking the time to make us sound good."

"I hope it continues in the new year!"

cover and original songs welcomed
by host of song gathering 2&4th Thursdays 7:30
at the Army Navy Club, a nice acoustic jam!

Did anyone take away info CFRU?

I am sorry I never got around to making/printing workshop evaluation forms.  Maybe I'll make it a New Year's Resolution!  But I do know that at least 3 people plan to join the SAC as a result of these sessions.

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Future Plans?

I really dig the vibe at the Bull Ring on campus

[ ] establish all ages, accessible, Socan lisenced venue for Monthly Meetings

Outreach 2012
[ ] invite L&M teachers, showcase of L&M rentals?
[ ] email list
[ ] media email re: event listings, including Sean's meetup post
[ ] improve/delegate recording for cfru broadcast potential? etc.

[ ] maintain association with SAC?

"Thanks for your call. I'm so sorry I can't talk. This week is a little insane with meetings and month's end stuff (as you can see, my job title has changed)." The Talent Coordinator/Accountant has made a note to call me soon.

The Songwriters Association of Canada exists to nurture, develop and protect the creative, business, and legal environments of songwriters in Canada and around the world.

We do this to promote universal recognition of the inspirational, societal and economic values of music & song.

Minutes, November 29, 2011

Don filled in as host of the recent Guelph Regional Writers Group Meeting.  He set up his amp in the green room and the festivities went from there!

"We used the Green Room because the stage was set up for the B-Bop event and the patrons weren't really going to dig the singer-songwriters. It made for a suitably intimate evening which is what I was going for."



The Man of Steel once again had not only postered, and promoted, but he collected email addresses on the sign up sheet and sent in some other notes for the minutes...

THANKS TO ALL.

1. Peter Boyer - New to guelph,former coordinator of the SAC group in Windsor

1st song-about the "war 1812" - country folk feel, 2nd-Chief Tuccumsi-Shinny Worrier, - great story teller.

Afterwards, Peter Boyer wrote "it was nice to finally attend a Guelph writer's group meeting and meet some of the great songwriters and musicians. It was an inspiring night of original music, thanks everyone, for making me feel so welcome!"

2. Peter Light - Dan Pharaoh joined him by playing a CAJON - floor box drum, excellent rhythm,feel and song writing

Peter Light reviewed the event "Good session at ebar last night. Nice to see some new faces out. Looks like we need more time to accommodate all the players. Mark next Tuesday on your "open mic" calendars!"

3. Gayle Ackroyd - teacher at L&M, 1st-"someone's daughter" pleasant storey teller,wrote in a bright key. 2nd,"your nearly prickly face" great written song,fun song about her daughter.

4. William Coon - CD called "Saturday afternoon Cowboys"
1st-"Widow walk" - quick tempo,clear lyrics,great story. soft voice.
2nd-"manitoulin" very Gordon Light-ish feel,good chord changes, excellent song, i loved it

5. Marty Collier - New to Guelph 3 mths,came via London/Toronto -
1st,great fingering, Dobbie brothers ref,played in same key. great left hand on the guitar
2nd "time is right"- song is 10yrs old,wrote while he was waiting for the furnace guy. nice key changes,great rhythm

6. Alex Frank - i invited him,Band called The Golden Retrievers.
1st"Antheim for the middle age" wrote 2 mths ago, slow tempo,this song was the 1st time played in front of a crowd, good melodic,great/funny lyrics
2nd,"farley moet" said he hasn't read any of his books,played in bright key,good tempo,fun story teller
Alex got the most response from the group with smiles,laughter applause. crowd pleaser. great left hand.

7. Dan Pharoah - works at molly blooms,
1st "good guys" slow tempo,bright sounding song,great story teller,
2nd "loosers" - dark song,rougher rhythms,quick strokes with right hand,

8. Jordin Fegin - left handed guitar player, great singer with soft voice.
1st,"your fool" soft sound with good key time changes,
2nd, wrote after being exhausted for 3 days,slow picking with nice tempo,high voice
singing,melody,minor chords.

9. Steve G
1st,"get on with your show" song about his daughter,single father,great story,great voice.
2nd,"about my love- i bring my love" i truly loved this song, IT WAS EXCELLENT!!
he has a Cat Stevens feel

10. Don Sawchuk, Don played 2 songs, then played a new/old christmas song,
he handed out the lyrics and asked for feed back on his song. a few joined in.

Peter hosted! And played the first couple songs!

Steve G and Mo

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