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Our Mission Statement: The Minnesota Association of Songwriters is a volunteer, member-supported organization. Its mission is to inspire, educate and strengthen the songwriting and performance skills of its members through seminars, workshops, review meetings, showcases and networking opportunities, while encouraging collaboration and exploration of the creative process.
Upcoming
Monthly Songwriting Craft Workshop. Presenter: Chad Shank. Bring your song ideas, lyrics in progress, notebook and pen. Click here for more info.
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Visit our MAS Artist Profiles for bios, contact info, audio samples, videos, pics, music/social links and gig schedules.
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Join MAS to get a start or a boost with your songwriting and presentation skills, and to help mentor others in the pleasure and business of making music.
What We Do...
MAS offers many ways to explore the joys of songwriting and the creative process:
- SongCasters TV showcase series: Perform your original songs in a television production studio and be seen on the MAS SongCasters show via community TV and on YouTube.
- Live artist showcases – Be part of our MAS Songwriters Showcase and perform your original music with other MAS members at various greater Twin Cities coffee houses, special event stages and outdoor festival locations.
- Virtual song evaluations – sign up via email to the MAS online song evaluations group and get reviews and suggestions from other online group members.
- Monthly Song Circle Jam sessions
- Networking and collaboration opportunities
- Gatherings to exchange information and resources
- Your own artist profile page on this website. Add your bio, schedule of performances, links to your social media, files of your songs, photos - you name it. It's your page to create with any and all information on your songwriting endeavors.
- Membership E-Mail Distribution List and MAS Newsletter and Announcements List
MAS Connections
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Minnesota HomeBrew Music Show - NEW ARTISTS
Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! All new artists on this episode, including Winnipeg's Madeleine Rogers, Wisconsin's Will Pfrang & The Good Land Band, and Minnesota's Craig Teiken. So much new music, no time for BEER NEWS! (A...
MnSpin 2020 will be opening for submissions on February 19th. We’ll be accepting new music through March 25th.
As a MnSpin Ambassador, you’re really vital in helping us find artists to build the MnSpin collection. We appreciate your help in spreading the word!
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If you have questions or suggestions, please email MnSpin@hclib.org.
Thank you for your ongoing support of MnSpin and Minnesota music!
MnSpin Team
Hi Songwriters,
Wanted to remind you and invite you to our monthly workshop coming up this Thursday. We will be meeting 7PM Thursday 2/13 at the Golden Valley Lund's and Byrlerly's. There is a great meeting room off of the restaurant. If you have not had a chance to join us, we hope you can make it.
This month we are focusing on writing hooks, and writing choruses! Many songs start with a hook, or the chorus first. So what makes a great chorus? How do you build the rest of the song when you have that great hook?
We will be listening to some hit songs, and also doing writing exercises. Last month we focused on Verses, this month is all about Choruses!
Hope to see you there!
Chad Shank
Education Director - MAS
www.chadshankmusic.com
From MAS member, Wayne Hamilton:
The 5th Annual - Impressions in Nature's Elements
A collaborative exhibition of Artwork Created from or Inspired by Nature
Presented by the Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community, this fifth annual Impressions in Nature's Elements art show will feature artwork by regional artists made out of natural elements such as stone, glass, clay, wood, etc., we expanded submissions to 2 dimensional artwork (photographs, paintings, prints, etc.) that focus on elements of nature (i.e. leaves, rocks, textures, wildlife), but NO LANDSCAPES. We don't want to make this too easy!
Deadline for Entry: midnight, February 14, 2020
Enter up to three (3) submissions
Find out more at:https://wyomingcreativearts.org/calls-for-artists/calls-for-artists/impressions-in-nature-s-elements-2020
Teachers Wanted
Impact lives like only a Teacher can do...
Interested in teaching painting, drawing, music, acting, or some other artistic medium? Here's where you submit your request.
Visit: wyomingcreativearts.org/teach
Board Members Wanted
Are you interested in making a real impact in Minnesota arts? The Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit has expanded the size of its board of directors and is currently looking for artists and art lovers who are willing to put some of their other talents and sphere of influence to work on the board of one of the most progressive arts organizations in Minnesota.
Good with numbers? Social Media? Organization? Graphics and web management? Organizing education? Writing Grants? Creative writing? Recruiting and managing volunteers? Fundraising? We may have just found you a new home!
If you've got one of these talents and are willing to be an active part of a fantastic organization, send a letter of interest and resume to arts@wyomingcreativearts.org
Sincerely,
Everyone at the Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community
Hallberg Center for the Arts
5521 East Viking Blvd
Wyoming, MN 55092
(651) 272-5122
WyomingCreativeArts.org
Impressions in Nature's Elements - 2020 - Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community
wyomingcreativearts.org
From MAS member, Don Strong:
Sunday, February 9, 2020
CIRCLE UP! Song Review / 2nd Sun. Monthly 1:00 - 3:00 Cream & Amber, Hopkins
Hosted by
Don Strong and Patrick Bonier
Songwriters Circle / Twin Cities
Public group
Cream And Amber
1605 Main Street · Hopkins, MN
Every 2nd Sunday at 1 PM at Cream and Amber Bookstore in Hopkins for our monthly Songwriters Circle Up FORUM meeting!��SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Twin Cities is a friendly group of pro, aspiring and "seasoned" Twin Cities songwriters, who meet monthly to perform & share our original songs. We do this for fun, constructive feedback and to develop our craft as writers/performers. Similar to the member "working meetings" of the Songwriters Guild in New York, we conduct our gatherings in a relaxed, supportive and positive format.��Songwriters who work in all song styles and genres are welcome (i.e. singer-songwriter, rock, pop, folk, country, R&B, alternative, etc).��You don't have to be a singer-- you can bring a proxy diva / divo or a CD/mp3 demo for our working "Forum" meetings.��Feel free to bring friends for support and audience. There is a $5. suggested donation for each attendee for the working FORUM meetings. Looking forward to seeing YOU there!��Songwriter Circle members and guests please note our group's policy:��Sharing songs in the Songwriters Circle Up meeting is "Round-Robin"--��that is, each writer presents one song at a time for group feedback.��If we are able to complete a "full round" of writers wanting to share a song, and there is time available, people will have the opportunity to present a second song. If there are songs which are collaborations between two or more writers, those writers can present songs "back to back"-- however, so that group members can appreciate, digest and offer feedback, there needs to be some time in between songs for members to comment immediately after each presented song.��This song sharing policy is modeled after member meetings of the Songwriters Guild in NY (the "Trade Association" of professional songwriters) .
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CIRCLE UP! Song Review / 2nd Sun. Monthly 1:00 - 3:00 Cream & Amber, Hopkins
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Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 1:00 PM: Every 2nd Sunday at 1 PM at Cream and Amber Bookstore in Hopkins for our monthly Songwriters Circle Up FORUM meeting!SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Twin Cities is a friendly group of prMAS Twitter Feed
MAS Live Songwriter Showcases
MAS Songwriters Showcases feature multiple 30-minute sets of original music from MAS members. We perform at various places around the greater Twin Cities area.
MAS Showcase 11-24-2019: Paul Vance, Dave Brezina, Mary Kealy-Falk, Patrick Bonier, Larry Suess, Al Ynigues.
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