7:00 PM
Apple Store, Upper West Side
1981 Broadway (at 67th St.), New York CitySongwritingWith:Soldiers, Technology in Service of Creativity
I’ll be discussing and giving a demonstration on how Apple technology allows the what we do with SongwritingWith:Soldiers to be created and shared with the world.
Please register in advance at here or by using the Apple Store App for iPhone or iPad.
8:15 AM
DJ Stout, of Pentagram Design, and I will be doing a collaborative keynote on the “Importance of Place.”
More info on DJ Stout
Info on the AMA Symposium
8:00 PM
w/ Support by Marci Geller
1601 Irving Street
Rahway, NJ 07065
Phone: 908 654 1585
Ever wonder what it would take to get Darden to sing at your house, or company? He even does weddings. You never know.
Just ask him. It might happen.
7:30 PM
The Beldon Stratford
2300 N. Lincoln Park
Chicago, IL 60614
This event will feature Award winning photographer Stacy Pearsall, documentary film maker Jon Siskel, and DS talking about their work with SongwritingWith:Soldiers. Stacy, an early participant in SongwritingWith:Soldiers (whose photos also appear on our site) will be discussing and exhibiting photos from her Veterans Portrait Project. Jon will be showing clips from Soldier Songs, documentary-in-progress on SW:S.
A special dinner with the artists will follow at Mon Ami Gabi.
8:30 PM show
3619 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206
Phone: 214 824 2263
w/ Roscoe Beck (acoustic bass) and Alex Marrero (percussion & vocals)
for tickets and info
Workshop on Entrepreneurship in the Performing Arts
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD
2:00-4:00PM
Austin Community College Eastview Campus
Room 8105
Arts and Service Celebration is sponsored by Texas Performing Artsand the Veteran Artist Project
Private Event
Darden will be bringing the concepts behind SongwritingWith:Soldiers to the TAPS gathering for family members of Military members who have taken their own lives.
Learn more about this TAPS here.
Private Event
Darden will be bringing the concepts behind SongwritingWith:Soldiers to the TAPS gathering for family members of Military members who have taken their own lives.
Learn more about this TAPS here.
When I was seventeen years old, standing alone in the Texas Opry House in Houston, TX, drinking a beer off my brother’s ID (long story), listening to John Prine, I never dreamed that some 35 years later I would be standing in the St. Louis airport talking with him while we waited for our luggage.
I learned “Souvenirs” when I was fourteen, and still play it occasionally around the house on a Saturday morning.
As a teenager, I spent hours dissecting John’s songs, trying to figure out how you make a chorus like “Sam Stone” work, or a love song like “Angel From Montgomery” fall together. Where does that magic come from?
One time, in the late 80’s or early 90’s, on a night off in London, John found out where I was staying and for some reason called me up. We went to dinner or something (neither of us could remember exactly what we did, which is rather telling…). I’ve done shows with him over the years, joined in a scary song swap in his hotel room at some Canadian folk festival with James McMurtry, Sarah McLaughlin and a couple of other people (again, the details are sketchy…there’s a pattern here). Every now and again, I run into him in an airport. I always have to remind him of my name, which I find endearing and don’t take personal. If I was John Prine, I’d probably forget a few names as well. There must be so many. Always, without fail, he is gracious, a gentleman, and funny.
It’s a policy of mine to make sure, when possible, to tell the people who were my guides in songwriting what they did for me. Two days ago, standing there watching the bags go around the carousel, it was a pleasure to do just that.
Thanks again, John.