- Always In My Heart
- Sekwi Na'da'ster
- Star Fly High
- Speak Up,Speak Out
- The North is My Home
- Show Me What you Got
- What Would Life Be Like
- Love So True
- Can't Tie Me Down
- Blank White Page
A few years back, as a way to expand my school shows that I’ve
been doing for the past ten years, I wanted to create something
that was more along the lines of what I was all about. I
approached Steven Bowers about creating a “Music Creation
Workshop” for schools. I envisioned a presentation that was
musical, educational, highly participational and could break
down the mysterious walls of songwriting for the students. After
about a dozen around the Maritimes, we were blown away at how
natural students are at songwriting, with our guidance of
course.
I was hired by the Municipality of Wood Buffalo to put on this
music creation workshop and I was even able to bring the
wonderful Mr. Thom Swift along! The project is entitled “The
Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project”. Along with Steven Bowers and
Thom Swift, we wrote 10 songs in 10 days, with 10 students in
each of the 10 schools. We would start off by writing a song in
one hour with the students. Then we would record the students
singing that very song. After a one hour performance for the
entire student body ending
in the song we wrote, the three of us would head back to the
hotel and finish off recording the tracks with more instruments
and voices. Thom jokingly nicknamed the project “Daytona
Songwriting 500″. At the beginning of the 10 days we had
nothing. Dave Gunning had the tracks mixed and mastered 12 days
after the project started. There was no debt for the record
whatsoever and the municipality has already purchased 5000
copies for the students to sell like chocolate bars. At $20 a
piece (at no profit to us), that will raise a total of $100,000
for school programming.
The above was sourced from: http://www.keithmullins.net/
