February 12, 2025

Join us for some in-person inspiration on Sunday, February 16 at 2 p.m.

We'll be in the upper classroom, as usual. Bring a song or two to share! Or just listen!

Here's where:

Artichoke Community Music

2007 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202

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We won't be Zooming for this event.

On Wednesdays, in collaboration with Warrior Beat, we're offering something a little different on our Zoom space. We hope you'll stop by and check it out!

Here's an opportunity to sample a whole new way of connecting with the rhythmic part of what we do.

Join the Zoom Meeting from 6-7 PST:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85695100053?pwd=RWpjcnVwM1hzWTBHenpqYnYxamdyQT09

Meeting ID: 856 9510 0053

Passcode: 700977

Look for us on Zoom on February 23. Join us!

And see below for other online events from national SSV:

The folks in Texas are offering a variety workshops on Mondays at 3 p.m. PST (they’re in Central time).

This month’s Master Class featured Steven Collins, who has been writing and performing songs for over 20 years under his band’s name “Deadman” and has toured extensively throughout the United States, UK, Scandinavia and Europe. Steven is also going to be at The Reveille Songwriting Retreat this March, running the recording studio and helping everyone cut tracks. We’ll be talking songwriting, but bring any questions you have about the recording process you have as well. See you soon!

Steven’s Song Prompt:

Find the simple, elegant beauty around you. Find it in your environment and surroundings. Describe what is beautiful about it; how does it make you feel and respond. these simple things are often overlooked - they may be a setting for as story in your head where you can exchange ideas, a problem, a solution, an internal or external change. Focus on what is normally overlooked and bring it to the foreground. Have the chords try and reflect how it makes you feel, it will help the lyrics come easier: match your internal world with an external outlet through tone.

2/17 5:00pm CT : Writing Session

2/24 5:00pm CT : Revue and Song Circle

Here’s the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88537709299?pwd=UTNveVMwZmVDUjBzNXdFOC9GUVJRdz09