2022 Livingston Taylor Retreat: Guest Instructors Announced!
Greetings from Liv Taylor HQ,
We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Livingston Taylor Retreat guest instructors!
Joining Livingston this August are Melissa Ferrick and Peter Mulvey, who combined have 60 years of experience as professional songwriters and touring musicians. We have included more information about Melissa and Peter below and will announce other workshops soon.
We are looking forward to the extensive knowledge and expertise they both will bring to the 2022 Livingston Taylor Retreat, so we are extending the early bird registration rate until Tuesday, February 15.
Click here for more information and to enroll!
We hope to see you there!
- Liv & Team
Melissa Ferrick is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University in the Music Industry Department at the College of Arts Media and Design. They've released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and have won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. From 2013 - 2019, Melissa was an Associate Professor of Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. They hold an Ed.M from Harvard University. Regarded in the industry and by their peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business, Ferrick still tours regularly playing throughout North America. They have shared the stage with Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d.Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others.
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and almost-poet since before he can remember. Twenty 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.