Sunday 02th November 2025
Location: Cois Abhann, Inistioge, R95 CX52
This masterclass with songwriter John Spillane gets to the heart of song writing and storytelling, focusing on helping participants lose any inhibitions and fears they have about writing songs. John will be sharing tricks of the trade on verse, chorus, repetition and rhyme. Songwriters should be prepared to sing and embrace the joy of the process.

“At my song writing workshops we actually write songs. Having attended a few workshops where the participants play their songs to be criticised by experts who talk down to them, I was inspired to invent a novel approach, where we all sit down and write a finished song in one session. This teaches many lessons, including finishing things, which is often a big problem for writers. I create a space where all negativity, all criticism and judgment are locked outside.”
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