Peter Mulvey ~ Songwriting retreat
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5 sessions + song circle limit 21 participants / all experience levels welcome $500 prepaid / Meals included / lodging available at local B&Bs, cabins
peter mulvey ~ songwriting retreat
Inspiration meets craft.
Find your songs. Sing them. It's time.
A rare retreat weekend at beautiful Blue Rock Studio in the Texas Hill Country with one of a kind songwriter, Peter Mulvey.
Group sessions, performance opportunities, individual consultation.
5 sessions + song circle
limit 21 participants / all experience levels welcome
$500 prepaid / Meals included / lodging available at local B&Bs, cabins
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. One of four brothers, he was raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee by parents who met as teaching volunteers in Central America. Inner-city life fell hard on him but harder on his classmates, leaving him with a restless view of the long journey America still needs to make, if it wants to live up to its promise.
Coming up through public schools and then a Jesuit university, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging in the Midwest before lighting out for Boston, where he returned to busking (this time in the subway) and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national and international touring. The wheels have not stopped since.
Eighteen records, one illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris, and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual autumn tour by bicycle, emceeing festivals, hosting his own boutique festival (the Lamplighter Sessions, in Boston and Wisconsin)… Mulvey never stops. He has built his life’s work on collaboration and on an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. He folds everything he encounters into his work: poetry, social justice, scientific literacy, and a deeply abiding humanism are all on plain display in his art.