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Annual NewSong Academy Click here to learn more about Academy discount registrations. One of America’s finest songwriting and performance workshops, featuring extraordinary instructors in an intimate setting, returns Aug. 9-11, as the NewSong Academy returns to Shepherdstown, W.Va. This year’s instructors include Susan Werner, Craig Bickhardt, Devon Sproule, Paul Reisler and Jason Blume. Now in its third year, the Academy will be held in venues around this quaint, hip and historic college town, located less than 90 minutes from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore and easily accessible from three major international airports. The NewSong Academy closes on Saturday evening, August 11 with the NewSong Academy Concert, featuring its faculty and special guests and held in the Frank Performing Arts Center at Shepherd University. TEACHER PROFILES:
PAUL REISLER has been performing and writing for over 30 years. He was the founder of Trapezoid and performed close to 3,000 concerts worldwide. He has been involved in over 35 recording projects in various roles as a musician, engineer, producer and composer. He has just released a new album of original songs with his new band, Paul Reisler and a Thousand Questions featuring Angela Kaset and Howard Levy called At Night the Roses Tango. He is the founder and director of Kid Pan Alley™. He has now written over 800 songs with over 16,000 children nationally. Their new CD, Kid Pan Alley Nashville that features many of that city’s best-known artists recording the songs written with the children. That album received a Grammy nomination and won both Parents’ Choice and NAPPA Gold Awards. He has taught songwriting to adults at workshops and songwriting schools throughout the country including Rocky Mountain Song School, Utah Song School, Swannanoa Gathering, Blue Ridge Songcamp, Augusta Workshop, Hollyhock, Kerrville, NSAI, Songcamp in the Mountains and many others. www.paulreisler.com
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SUSAN WERNER has 6 albums
under her belt, a touring career throughout the U.S. and a string
of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, Village
Voice and The New Yorker. She has become one of the
defining artists of the contemporary performing songwriter scene
with songs that effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop,
delivered with wit and charm. As a Chicago
Tribune writer noted: "Susan
Werner is a triply blessed artist who sings adroitly, plays the
piano smartly and, best of all, writes songs of genuine distinction
and high craft..." Werner has wowed audiences at past Mountain
Stage and NewSong appearances; now see how she does it with up-close
instruction. 
CRAIG
BICKHARDT’s songwriting credits read like a Who's
Who of the music industry. He has written and co-written a broad
range of great songs covered by artists such as Ray Charles,
The Judds, Kathy Mattea, B.B. King, Art Garfunkel, Martina McBride
and many others. The Judds "Heartland" album featured
three songs Craig had a hand in, including the number one Billboard
hits "Turn It Loose" and "I Know Where I'm Going".
His songcraft is also featured in the number one hits "In
Between Dances" (Pam Tillis), co-written with Barry Alfonso,
and "It Must Be Love" (Ty Herndon), co-written with
Jack Sundrud. He also landed platinum album cuts with "Where
I Used to Have a Heart" (Martina McBride), "All the
Things We've Never Done" (McBride), co-written with Jeff
Pennig, and "Even a Cowboy Can Dream" (Trisha Yearwood),
also co-written with long-time collaborator Barry Alfonso. You
can also find his work on the soundtracks of the movies “Tender
Mercies” and “Switchback.” He is an accomplished
performer, matching a soulful voice with a killer acoustic guitar.
JASON BLUME is one of
those rare individuals who has landed songs on the Country, Pop
and R & B charts – simultaneously. His songs are on albums
that have sold more than 50 million copies including the Backstreet
Boys, Britney Spears, Oak Ridge Boys, Jesse McCartney and others.
He is one of the nation's most respected songwriting teachers and
his “6 Steps to Songwriting Success: The Comprehensive Guide
to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs” is the nation’s
No. 1 best-selling songwriting book. He presents seminars internationally
and developed BMI's Nashville Songwriters Workshops. A personable,
passionate straight-shooter of a teacher who knows the songwriting
business better than anyone, he was a hit at last year’s
Academy and we’re thrilled to have him back. 
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