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Liz Mandeville Gives Fun Workshops!
1. Liz Mandeville Gives Fun
Workshops!
Four Great Topics:
1. History of the Blues
2. Womenâs Contributions to the Blues,
3. Blues Music 101
4. Song Writing for Fun and Profit
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3. Liz has a BA in Music from Chicagoâs Columbia College.
After eight years of touring with her band, Liz decided that although she was a good
entertainer, she wanted to be a better musician. She enrolled at fine arts focused
Columbia College, Chicago where she graduated with honors in 1996.
At Columbia Liz was unbelievably lucky to work with Music Department Chair, William
Russo, who had been an arranger for Duke Ellington and Stan Getz.
Composer Kimo Williams, vocalist Bobbi Wilsyn and arranger Orbert Davis were among
Lizâs professors.
In Columbiaâs English Department, performer and historian, George Bailey, was most
influential. He encouraged Lizâs research and guided her writing on the world of blues,
her place in it and giving an historical perspective.
During her college years, Liz was Artist in Residence at the Blue Chicago clubs from
1994-99. She performed with many great blues artists & recorded 2 tracks for the Blue
Chicago Labelâs âRed Hot Mamasâ CD. While getting her college degree by day she was
getting her âPhD in the Streets,â (as her fellow musicians teased her) singing blues in
the clubs at night.
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5. Liz Mandeville Loves Blues History! She Makes It Fun!
While Liz was a College student in the 1990âs, she spent hours in Columbiaâs
extensive library and their Center for Black Music Research as well as the City
of Chicagoâs Harold Washington Library, combing the stacks, reading
historical data, back issues of the Chicago Defender (Americaâs first Black
owned newspaper) and with the help of blues historian Suzanne Flandereau,
building her knowledge of Americaâs Roots Music.
She uses those resources paired with her enthusiasm, her talent as an
entertainer and her handy guitar in presenting these four fun, informative
workshops:
⢠History of the Blues, from field hollers to funkâŚ
⢠Womenâs Contributions to the Blues, what , why and whoâŚ
⢠Blues Music 101, or what is this music & how do I clap to it?
⢠Song Writing for Fun and Profit
Hereâs a summary of what youâll get in each workshopâŚ.
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7. History of the Blues: From Field Hollers to FunkâŚ
Today it feels as if Blues has always been part of Americas cultural tapestry. Itâs
actually a blend of many threads. Work songs, Spirituals, Toasts, Minstrelsy,
Vaudeville, and Politics, all had a hand in that blend which continues to morph and
grow even today. In fact todayâs Blues has incorporated rock, funk and heavy metal!
In this fun, fact filled workshop:
⢠Liz starts at the beginning, demonstrates the work song, its beginnings and uses.
⢠She talks about the Revivalist movement, the traveling tent show, its music and
Biblical message and how it influenced the popular music of the day.
⢠Liz will take you on a tour of the minstrel show contrasting it with vaudeville and
how the two art forms came together and the Classic Blues Period bloomed.
⢠Next, the Classic Blues Period, a decade that changed the world! Who was
responsible, who were the major players and what happened to end it?
⢠The rise of the guitar, country blues, Northern Migrations, Memphis and Chicago.
⢠Chess Records, from the birth of Electric Blues to the Birth of Rock & Roll.
⢠Chicagoâs Delmark , Alligator, Blind Pig, and Earwig Records: Who, what & why?
⢠Enter the Funk! Johnny Guitar Watson, James Brown & disco touch the blues.
⢠Hip Hop: a direct descendant of the Toast, what was that, who toasted an why?
⢠The Blues NOW and in the FutureâŚ
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9. Womenâs Contribution to the Blues
Since its inception, women have been instrumental in building, improving and adding
to the great mystery that is American Blues Music. Consider these facts:
⢠A woman named the blues and created the template for all Blues Singers that
followed her. She kept her seminal act going for 50 years!
⢠3 female Vaudeville stars incited the Classic Blues period. One of them also
discovered Eubie Blake!
⢠A woman took blues guitar from country pickinâ to urban electric paving the way
for the Chicago masters of Chess Records fame!
⢠At the height of the 60âs Civil Rights Movement, a beauty queen took her winnings
and used them to reignite the career of her favorite artist, Lightninâ Hopkins!
Youâll hear intimate details of these stories and many more. Join Liz Mandeville in an
interactive, music filled journey that traces the political climate in the US that would
lead any woman to sing the blues, important periods in blues and the women who
helped form them, the songs, the players and their juicy inside stories.
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11. Blues 101: How to Listen, Where to Clap!
Geared toward the non-musician, great for introducing the blues to
kids, this fun interactive One Hour Workshop will get you
clapping, singing, and swinging along to the blues of all periods.
Questions addressed include:
⢠What is the Blues? A short history, where it started and what were
the songs like? Youâll learn a field holler, line-out and hear a classic
blues song, a boogie and a lump de lump.
⢠How do you recognize blues when you hear it? Explaining
timing, tempo, the importance of the rhythm, the blues scale, and
blue notes. The room will become a rhythm machine!
⢠Types of blues; Whatâs the difference between Blues and Jazz; Blues
& Rock; Blues & Hip-Hop? As an ever changing art form, blues has
grown from Field Hollers to the 12-bar. What makes these different?
What is a LUMP? Weâll follow one lick thru 40 years of morphing!
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13. Song Writing for Fun & Profit!
Liz Mandeville has written hundreds of songs . More than 80 of her songs
have been recorded and internationally distributed. Sheâs produced five
radio commercials . She won the 2005 International Songwriting
Contest, and was a finalist in the USA Songwriting Contest. In 2008 Liz
was nominated Songwriter of the Year by the American Roots Music
Association.
Join Liz for a fascinating class on the mechanics of songwriting from idea
to completion and beyond.
⢠Liz will talk about song form, what are the parts of a song and how do
they function?
⢠Types of songs, ballad, boogie, 12-bar, rock song, what are they really?
⢠Developing an idea, giving yourself a writing assignment, collecting
hooks, some famous songs and how they got written.
⢠Weâll look at some popular songs and figure out what makes them tick.
⢠The class will write a song together and play it.
Liz will also cover areas of business such as copywriting & publishing