Music for Youth National Festival - REMIX 2021

Across 5 days, Music For Youth will be hosting an exciting programme of free events including interactive workshops, online performances, behind the scenes content, top picks, interviews and more!

Our theme this year is Remix 2021, celebrating the amazing ways that teachers, music leaders and young people have adapted, innovated, reimagined, reconfigured and rearranged how they make music together.

Workshop: Remix your Songwriting with Bridget Walsh

When you’re a musician or artist, the act of creating can be a very valuable tool in helping to share and process experiences and emotions, heartaches and triumphs and all sorts of stories inbetween. Sometimes you’re writing for a specific purpose, a specific show, a specific brief or a specific band - sometimes you’re writing for the joy, the healing or simply just for you. And some days, the creative flow comes a lot more naturally than others…

In this 90 minute workshop, international touring artist, bandleader and composer, Bridget Walsh (@lovefrombridget), will guide you through some different ways you can approach and change up your songwriting - whether it’s to help shift a writer’s block, to get a fresh perspective, or simply just for the fun of trying something new with your craft. The workshop is open to musicians at all stages of their songwriting journeys, but will be most valuable for those with an interest in lyric-writing and storytelling with words - even if this workshop is your first time doing it!

For 16 - 21 year olds

Bridget Walsh

Originally from Aotearoa (NZ), Bridget has been touring with UK bands since 2013, taking the stage at a number of iconic global venues and festivals, including Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Boomtown, Sono Centrum, Shambala, Latitude, Estragon Club, Subsonic, Auckland Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Bridget’s booty-shaking soul-pop is all about bringing people together and spreading a little PMA, with her musical roots spanning everything from hip hop to hardcore to musical theatre.

Bridget's new project, 10:32, debuted at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2018, followed by a New Zealand spring tour, and studio sessions in the UK, New Zealand and the USA. 10:32 will be releasing their new EP in Spring 2020, recorded at London’s Total Refreshment Centre.

Bridget is incredibly humbled to be endorsed by Audix Microphones USA.

https://www.lovefrombridget.com/

Important information

Further information about the session and how to join the workshop on the day, will be emailed to you a few days before the event.

As part of the pre-event communications we will also be sending out our code of conduct and a link to our safeguarding policy. All live sessions will be monitored by MFY staff in order to safeguard this workshop. We advise that you take the time to read the terms and conditions on Zoom's website for your own information and safety.

This event is completely free. However, numbers are limited so please book your place in advance.