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• SAW Second Saturday Toolbox (online)

  • When
    09/13/2025
  •  
    12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Online
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  SAW Virtual Second Saturday Songwriters' Toolbox w Christie Chirinos 

  In the tradition of our years of Saturday songwriting toolboxes, join your host, Christie Chirinos, (christiechirinos.com ) for a refreshing, frank and helpful look at where your songs are now and how they might be improved.

  Bring your finished, almost finished and just started songs to a session with other songwriters. You will perform your song for the group from your end and receive a kind but thorough look at how others hear your work. 

  Please have the lyrics of your song ready (in a format that works for a screen share) or submit it beforehand to the moderator (email address will be provided to registrants) so others can follow along.

  Christie and your fellow songwriters will bring you into the community of songwriting and give your process some new perspectives.

  Register to get the Zoom info.

  
  

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• Saturday Songwriters' Toolbox at Rockville Library

  • When
    09/20/2025
  •  
    12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    21 Maryland Avenue Rockville, MD 20850

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  SAW Third Saturday Songwriters' Toolbox at Rockville Library
  

  

  In the tradition of our years of Saturday songwriting toolboxes, kept alive during the pandemic by our virtual toolbox, SAW is offering in person song sharing and critiques that are respectful, frank and helpful. An invaluable aid for looking at where your songs are now and how they might be improved.

  Bring your finished, almost finished and just started songs to a session with other songwriters. You will perform your song for the group from your end and receive a kind but thorough look at how others hear your work. 

  Please have the lyrics of your song ready with multiple copies to distribute so everyone can follow along and comment after.

  SAW president, Jay Keating and your fellow songwriters will bring you into the community of songwriting and give your process some new perspectives.

  Rockville Memorial Library is located close to metro and bus routes with parking nearby. They are the sponsor of these classes, another great service from the Montgomery County Library System.

  
  

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• New Deal Open Mic (1st Tuesday)

  • When
    10/07/2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    New Deal Café, 113 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD

  Lynn Hollyfield hosts an open mic at the New Deal Cafe every first Tuesday.

  • Full PA with vocal mics and instrument pickups. Upright piano available.
  • In Person sign-ups at 6:30, 2 songs, 10 minutes, 7-9:30PM.
  You can ask questions by emailing lynn@lynnhollyfield.com. See ya there! 
  
  New Deal Cafe
  113 Centerway 
  Greenbelt, MD 20770
  (301) 474-5642 (for venue information)
  www.newdealcafe.com

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• In The Loop with Jeff Miller In Person or Streaming

  • When
    10/12/2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Mackenzie's, 3950 University Drive STE 210, Fairfax, VA 22030
  • Spaces left
    37
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  Songwriters, on the road or at the local pub are always looking to expand their sound. Loop pedals have become the fastest avenue to fuller sound.

  Nashville based songwriter, Jeff Miller, a compelling songwriter and a wizard with the loop pedal, will teach a loop pedal seminar for SAW on Sunday Oct 12 from 4pm to 7pm at MacKenzie's Tunes & Tonics, 3950 University Drive, Fairfax, VA  The event will stream online as well to registered guests.  Check this JM loop out

  Whether you feel "out of the loop entirely" or are a practicing loop pedal performer this is an accessible master class on the finer points and larger lessons of looping live.  Member price (in-person) is $30 dollars; non-member $40. Live stream cost is $20.

  ​Here's a sample of what people are saying about Jeff Miller:

  "A true acoustic artist."
  -Brad Frost

  "One of the finest guitarists, vocalists, and looping artists that ever done trod the East Coast..."
  -Rob Hinkal of ilyAIMY

  "That just totally blew my mind."
  -Jon Decious, former bassist with The Pink Spiders

  "His compositions are balletic, his live stage performance beguiling and befuddling, as one wonders, 'How is all that sound coming from one man?' ... 'Can You Hear the Music?' captures some of the magic of Miller live."
  -Stacy Leiser, Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle

  "I don't know how he does what he's doing, but it's amazing."
  -Gary Burr, hit songwriter and member of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band

  "A total master of the loop/sampling pedal."
  -Adrian Bischoff, KZSU

  MacKenzie's Tunes & Tonic 
  3950 University Drive, Fairfax, VA          571-318-8203

  
  

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