Workshop Details
Global Music Collective presents: The Songwriting Bonfire – Group Songwriting Workshop
Join us as we bring you into our creative process in collaborating across boundaries. We will teach what we know, learn about you, and write a song together.
DATE: 23rd September 2023 (Saturday)
TIME: 12:00pm – 5:00pm (with a short break around 2:00pm)
VENUE: Lilanoor Center for Voice and Music, 389 Masjid Moth, 1st Floor, South Extension II, Delhi – 110049
FREE ADMISSION
No previous knowledge required, but we will work with participants to make a song. More experienced participants may have more of a feature where possible.
About the Facilitators
Kate Bass is an internationally sought-after singer, songwriter, speaker, teacher, and creative facilitator for programs and festivals around the world. Her master classes and workshops in songwriting, voice, musical theater, and opera have been featured in conventions and programs throughout the US and Europe, as well as many U.S. Embassy-funded programs in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. As a performer, Kate has toured extensively in many varying musical genres. She has performed in numerous Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning shows and albums, from Broadway to Film, TV, and Music internationally.
Richie “Robot“ Steighner is an American producer, champion beatboxer, and global music instructor who has travelled the world making noise for over two decades. He has performed in over 60 countries and worked with 27 US Embassies to build programs around music and cultural diplomacy. His specialty is in collaborative voice-powered pop & hip hop, producing and writing group songs in 18 different languages. He’s served in dozens of Arts Envoys, 5 American Music Abroad tours, 7 YES Academies, an AMA Academy, and produces Wordplay (ECA’s media literacy through song lyrics project). He has won numerous CARA awards for songwriting and production, the HIMPFF award for best film score, and is the National Harmony Sweepstakes Champion.
Harpreet is a versatile artiste, who sings original musical compositions in Hindi, as well as, in regional Indian languages and dialects such as Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Rajasthani and Haryanvi. He is best known for creating musical scores to epic works of humanist poets like Kabir and Bulleh Shah. Credited for taking celebrated poets to the masses, Harpreet has also composed popular hummable tunes to words of poets such as Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu), Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Nirala (Suryakant Tripathi). The rhythmic blend of soulful poetry to the pulsating sounds of guitar and percussion are at once unique and innovative, familiar and foreign.
Santur Kundu is an extremely talented and skilled musician, who has achieved significant success at such a young age. Despite being skilled in singing, songwriting, and music production, Santur has also mastered musical instruments like the Guitar, Keyboard, and Harmonium. He is best known for his incredible voice and for being a skilled exponent of the art of vocalising rhythms through Konnakol. Santur is currently one of the lead Vocalists and the choir manager at the award winning Anirudh Varma Collective. He is also currently working with the acclaimed electronic dui, The Midival Punditz and has been a vocalist for the Nandan Borker Collective and VnA Music.
