Cohutta Song Fest Announces Songwriter Workshops

Cohutta Song Fest will offer a small group songwriting workshop on Saturday, October 19 in northwest Georgia. This four-hour workshop, led by songwriters Becky Buller and Ed Snodderly, is designed to help you improve your songwriting skills by focusing on lyric writing, music theory and arranging.

Officials said: “What you’ll discover in this workshop is that the inspiration you get from the class is incredibly important, but that’s only half the story. The other part is spending most of the day completely immersed in songwriting with other like-minded people.

Friendships are formed that last beyond the workshops, and the collaborations produce songs that would otherwise never have been created.

The $65 fee includes the workshop, admission to the Cohutta Song Fest evening concert, and participation in the open stage.

About the instructors:
Becky Buller, a 10-time IBMA Award winner, has written songs for three Grammy-winning albums, and her songs have been recorded by The Infamous Stringdusters’ Laws of Gravity (2018 Best Bluegrass Grammy), “The Shaker” on The Travelin’ McCourys’ self-titled album (2019 Best Bluegrass Grammy), and “Good-bye Girl” on Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway’s Crooked Tree (2023 Best Bluegrass Grammy). Her compositions can also be heard on albums by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, among many others.

Ed Snodderly is the co-founder of the now iconic music venue, The Down Home Coffee House and Pickin’ Parlor in Johnson, Tn. Since his 1977 debut album, Sidewalk Shoes, Mr. Snodderly has released LPs on Sugar Hill and other prestigious roots-oriented labels. In addition to his solo work, he has recorded and performed as Brother Boys with duet partner Eugene Wolfe. Songs he has written have been covered by Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Missy Raines and others, and in 2000 he had a small role (called “Village Idiot”) in the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Since 1992 he has taught songwriting classes in the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program at East Tennessee State University.

For more information or to register for workshops, visit [email protected] or email [email protected].

Scholarships:
If you know a high school student who would benefit from attending this event but can’t afford it, a limited number of youth scholarships may be available. Contact Charlsey Etheridge at [email protected].