Chris Sanders will offer a daily hour long songwriting workshop which will include listening to musical examples, discussion of style components (musical structure, subject matter, crafting lyrics and more) and writing exercises to incorporate some of these components.
Elliott Rogers has been teaching and writing songs for decades and honed his skills in Austin Texas in the 80s with Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen and others of note. He has a wide variety of styles ranging from cowboy songs, country, blues and most definitely Bluegrass. His tunes have been recorded by Alan Munde, Jim Hurst, Bill Evans,Steve Spurgin, the Bluegrass Patriots, and Bill Hearne. From the popular humorous tunes Emu Meat and She’s Your Problem Now to serious and moving songs like Heaven and Lay my Shovel Down, Rogers elicits images and characters as vivid as any film