Iowa musician to lead songwriting workshop

Carol Montag (photograph submitted)

Union photograph of the Washington Public Library

WASHINGTON — The Washington Public Library will change tempo at its writers workshop Saturday, Oct. 22, internet hosting Iowa-born Musician Carol Montag for a songwriting workshop.

Assistant Librarian LeAnn Kunz mentioned it was a primary for the group, which has historically targeted on a wide range of extra typical writing kinds.

“I’m at all times attempting to place some selection into our writers workshops as a result of folks write in so many various methods,” she mentioned. “I needed to broaden slightly bit and produce other folks come. Folks writing track lyrics may be very a lot an artwork, and it’s a unique form of writing, and I’m encouraging our common individuals who attend (to) come and simply attempt it, to see what it’s like.”

Kunz mentioned Montag’s teachings may broaden the horizons of different writers, even when they weren’t musically targeted.

“We cowl each style of writing, as a result of we wish everyone to really feel welcome,” she mentioned. “It’s not simply the individuals who write novels coming to this group. My philosophy is that you could be taught one thing about writing from anyone that tells you their craft.”

For her half, Carol Montag mentioned such workshops supplied perception for songwriters like herself.

“I’m serious about being with different singer/songwriters, and different writers,” she mentioned. “Now we have to have some form of a neighborhood, whether or not that’s in Washington, Iowa or Cedar Rapids or San Francisco. It doesn’t actually matter the place, what issues is you’re in a position to bounce concepts off one another, share songs and issues that you simply care about.”

Whereas it’s a drastically completely different craft, Montag mentioned the teachings from folks songwriting like her personal had been relevant to different genres and different forms of writing completely.

“There’s all several types of writers and all several types of pursuits in why folks write, however all of them really feel a way that they need to file their ideas,” she mentioned. “I believe all writers are serious about what different persons are doing, so far as their writing goes. It’s good to fulfill different folks from completely different elements of the state or the nation who’re writers, and came upon what they’ve been doing.”

Montag will lead the Washington Writers’ Workshop Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to midday. She additionally will carry out a free live performance there at 2 p.m. the identical day.

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