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Do you love to write songs?  Despite how the pros make it look, writing songs doesn’t come naturally for anybody!  Learning the craft takes practice, patience, and feedback.  Most professional songwriters in Nashville will tell you that much like going to the gym to train for a weightlifting competition, there are certain songwriting muscles that need to be worked over and over in order for songs to start flowing more naturally.  This 6-week course will give you all the things that a good gym membership would:  teach you good songwriting form, training on certain songwriting muscle groups, personal coaching, and accountability.  Each Monday night session will include a short lesson, followed by a practical exercise.  From time to time, professionals in the business will attend (either in person or via zoom) for special topics and Q&A. Students are also encouraged (not required) to attend Wednesday nights at Craft Local Open Mic to perform their songs, extend their practice in public, and support the group.  Each 6-week course ends with a celebratory showcase at The Workshop, in which students select their favorite original songs to perform for their fellow classmates, friends, and family.  Suggested donation $25/per class

Fall ‘25 Curriculum:  (As pro guests are scheduled, schedule will be updated.)

WEEK ONE: OCT 5: (1-3 pm with Jackson Emmer)

WEEK TWO: OCT 13:

WEEK THREE: OCT 20:

WEEK FOUR: OCT 27:

WEEK FIVE: NOV 3:

WEEK SIX: NOV 10:

SHOWCASE: NOV 17: SHOWCASE

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Songwriting Coach and Facilitator, Angie Goeke: 

Angie Goeke is a multidisciplinary artist, committed activist, and compelling songwriter with a forte for cinematic storytelling. She’s also a mother of four who transformed her lifelong love of music into a serious songwriting career. Inspired by independent, individual artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Willie Nelson, Goeke quickly earned a reputation for her particular brand of haunting, narrative, emotionally-complex songs. Her unique compositions, which she often begins writing on ukulele before expanding for a larger band, fuse elements of classic Americana, folk, bluegrass and jazz, with her captivating vocal melodies front and center. In her debut album If I Were Honest, released in early 2022, Goeke writes songs encapsulating all the complex emotions and amorphous feelings that make life both complicated and beautiful. 

Americana Highways wrote: “Angie’s emphasis is on her melodic appeal, smart words vividly demonstrated, and she’s filled her album with heartwarming tunes…and immersed them in everything that is essential to good songwriting and performance.”

Born and raised in Austin, TX, Goeke grew up in a musical family, singing with her siblings in church, where her dad was choir director and organist, and attending symphonies and local music events on weekends. She began musical training at just seven years old, singing at various studios and national choral competitions and later performing for her majesty Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Texas. But it wasn’t until 2018 that Goeke decided to pursue a full-time songwriting career. “I’ve been writing songs for myself for as long as I can remember. But at some point, I just decided it was time to finally do what I’ve always felt called to do with my life,” she says. “As an artist, I’ve found tools to help express things that feel unwieldy—tools like color and sound. We need them to convey the things we don’t have words for otherwise.”

In 2019 Goeke released her debut solo EP KNOTS, establishing herself as a promising new voice in Texas Americana. Recorded at Lucky Run Studios with legendary sound engineer Michael Mikulka, the six-song collection reflects on the challenges and subtle rhythms of relationships, vacillating between upbeat, toe-tapping acoustic guitar tracks and delicate, lilting ballads backed by upright bass. In 2020, stalled by the pandemic but resolved to continue making music, Goeke released a new single each month via streaming platforms before returning to the studio to work on her first full-length album. Recorded in Nashville and produced by Mary Bragg, If I Were Honest celebrates the enormous complexity of being human, with a spectrum of sounds ranging from textural and cinematic to candid and nostalgic. Skope Magazine called the album “Americana perfection.” 

During her songwriting career, Goeke has received recognition among her community, peers, and the industry.  Her music video of “Whiskey in a Teacup” acquired sponsorship by Johnnie Walker Whiskey. She was voted in the top 3 Best Musicians in the 2020 Houston Chronicle Best of the Best, breaking genre trends between Travis Scott and Slim Thug. She has also been a 2-time finalist in the HoustonLive Songfest.  The dynamic songwriter has performed at the Springboard Festivals in Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis, and most recently, Goeke won the Regional Semi-Finals of the Synapse Star Search national competition and performed in the finals in November 2024 at the Analog Room in Nashville, TN.  

Goeke continues to make musical markings with a new release set for 2025. The three song EP, produced by Canadian, Dale Penner (Nickelback, Loverboy), brings together upbeat songs full of sass and musicianship. She remains an active co-writer and performer in the Houston-based Gothic-Americana trio Runaway Revival and currently fills her days creating music and art inspired by her new home, Billings, MT, and managing events at the family’s creative space, The Workshop.