PNW Songbook at The Winterblue Room – to a song potluck.
Doors 6:30pm. Downbeat at 7p. FREE. Bring a song (link to recording and lyric sheet), we’ll chart it, learn it and have some fun arranging it. The goal: discover and appreciate songs written by PNW artists while having fun making music together. Please bring someone else’s song. RSVP required.
What you can expect
We start to gather at 6:30 – we socialize, get situated and see what songs we have to choose from. We start making music at 7p and go until 9p.
Process: We listen to a recording of the song and the person who brought the song might share something about the artist and what they like about the song.
As a group, we’ll chart the song (if it doesn’t come charted).
Then we’ll play through it (the person who brings the song will most likely sing it) and work on learning/analyzing the song structure. Along the way we might change a thing here and there – try different arrangement ideas. You might also pick up a different instrument (we have bass, electric guitars, piano, percussion available) or add harmonies.
We play through each tunes several times – working together to refine and polish the arrangement.
We spend about 30-40min a song
We encourage everyone to bring a song by a PNW songwriter.
This is a community event and only works when folks bring a song. If you bring a charted song, please bring about 5 copies and a link where we can hear a recording. If you aren’t comfortable with charting a song, you can bring the lyrics and a link to a recording and we’ll chart it together as a group! We’ll be adding more resources to find PNW artists.
More details
WHO: Alicia Healey, Wes Weddell and You!
WHAT: Learn PNW songs we know or find
WHERE: The Winterblue Room – North Seattle
7754 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125
WHEN: 4th Monday of the Month, 7-9pm
WHY: The PNW is bursting with great songwriters and songs. We want to create a scene where songwriters can trade, collaborate on, and learn songs written by PNW songwriters. And to get together and PLAY.
We are not requiring masks, but request vaccination. We invite those who feel more comfortable with them on to wear them!
This is a casual event, but we will begin promptly at 7p (doors open at 6:30p). No refreshments provided, but you’re invited to bring your own.
Street parking available, but can be tight at times. The Winterblue Room isn’t marked, it looks like a residential house – beige – across from The Shambles bar.
You can enter from the front, or the back alley (up the stairs). If you have any other questions, feel free to use the RSVP form HERE.
Past Songs and Artists:
April 22, 2024
The Half Brothers – “Don’t Burn Books”
Eileen Cuba – “If”
Ian Jones – “Evergreens”
March 25, 2024
Michael Hill – “Anthem”
Dean Johnson – “Possession”
Pete Droge – “Skeleton Crew”
February 26, 2024
Anna Arvan – “My Hands & My Feet”
Havilah Rand – “All Night”
J.W. McClure – “Pig”
January 22, 2024
Kate Lynne Logan – “The River and the Rain”
Clinton Fearon – “Love Light”
Neko Case – “Deep Red Bells”
NO DECEMBER SESSION
November 27, 2023
Nancy K Dillon – “Ice and Bone”
The Wayside – “Come On Home” Chris Poage – “The Big Escape”
October 23, 2023
Cyd Smith – “Songbird”
Carl Solomon – “Lincoln Continental (Suicide Doors)”
NO MAY-SEPT 2023 SESSIONS
April 24, 2023
Jimm McIver, Wittgens, Hall – “I Wonder if She Knows”
Mudhoney – “Blinding Sun”
Tom Hodge – “Slow the Tempo Down , Charlie”
March 27, 2023
Ann Wilson – “Little Problems, Little Lies”
Matt Price – “Nothing Wrong with Us” Clara Baker – “Body”
February 27, 2023
Mark Ippolito – “Lately”
Vince Martinez – “The Woods or the Good Ole Lord”
January 23, 2023
Andrea Wittgens’ (Sugartown) – “Waltz of the Grind of the Gears “
Carrie Akre’s – “Hum Drum”
Jim Page led us a couple times through Woody Guthrie’s “Roll on Columbia”.
December 26, 2022 (No December session)
November 28, 2022
Neko Case – “I Wish I was the Moon”
Nessa Grasing (aka Nessa) – “Bicycle Song”
October 24, 2022
Jo Miller (Ranch Romance) – “Heartaches”
Stephanie Anne Johnson – “Never No More”
September 26, 2022
Julia Massey – “Turn It Into Everything”
Rachel Lyn Harrington – “Let Me Sleep In Your Arms Tonight”
August 29, 2022
Nick Droz – “Roanoke”
Danny O’keefe – “So Long, Harry Truman”
July 23, 2022
Olivia Brownlee – “Lullaby for Maria”
Joy Mills – “Coming Up”
June 27, 2022
“Maps & Charts”
Mandy Troxel – “Bad Penny”
Rob Stauffer – “The Love Lights”
Linda Waterfall – “Low Rider”
May 23, 2022
April 25, 2022
Zoe Muth & Anna Brown – “If I Can’t Trust You with a Quarter (How can I trust you with my heart?)”
Rebecca Cohen – “You Hung the Moon”
McKain Lakey – “Somewhere”
March 28, 2022
Tekla Waterfield – “Let there Be Love”
Deborah Savran – “Love is Worth The Ride”
Peter Woiwod (Go Slowpoke) – “I Found the World Right Where I Left It”
February 28, 2022
Anne Phalen – “Paradise”
Dan Maher – “A Little Less Foolish”
October 25, 2021
Leslie Braly – “Fire Burning in my Soul”
Val D’Alessio – “Ain’t Nothing Like a Train”
Thorton Bowman – “Even These Bricks”