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Better Dreams: Using Dream Imagery as Songwriting Inspiration with Maura Kennedy

Presented by PSALM - The Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature and Music at PSALM - The Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature and Music

January 23, 2011

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Led by award-winning songwriter Maura Kennedy, this workshop will explore techniques to harvest the rich stories and images that arise while we sleep. This creative consciousness, which occupies one-third of our lives, is usually forgotten during waking hours. Maura will give you tools to recall this material, and ways to fashion it into song lyrics that will lift your creative process above craft and technique. You will surprise yourself in this workshop! It was in Austin that she made her bones and it was there that her stage persona came together: always rocking, always “in the zone,” and always full-on energy. It was also in Austin that she hooked up with Nanci Griffith, and toured the US and the British Isles behind Nanci’s Grammy-winning Other Voices, Other Rooms. Working the road in the acoustic format of roots-pop mavens The Kennedys, her songwriting blossomed, as she began drawing from novels, poetry, and especially from her own dreams.