Location: Your home via ZOOM
6:30 pm: Open portal and networking
7:00 pm: Program followed by song critiques for members
Zoom ID # 617 432 0082
Featuring Wayne Gathright!
This month we will hear from Wayne Gathright, a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer from Austin. He is the winner of the
Dallas Songwriter Association 2023 Songwriter of the Year, and the 2019 Austin
Songwriter’s Group International Songwriter of the Year, and Nashville
Publisher Pick award in 3 different Texas Music Symposiums. Additionally, in
2023, Wayne was the 2nd Place Grand Prize Winner in the Broadjam/DSA
International Song Competition, and 1st Place in the Country Category. In 2024,
he won 1st place in the Broadjam/DSA International Competition Pop/Rock
Category. He and his brother founded ‘Music Lane Recording’, which recorded
hundreds of noted artists, such as Bob Schneider, Soul Hat, Vallejo, Junior
Brown, Roky Erikson, Spoon, and Denim. Music Lane was voted ‘Best Recording
Studio’ by the Austin Chronicle 3 times, so Wayne knows a lot about recording music as well. He will talk about "Perception to Production" and focus mainly on how he gets ideas for songs and then lyrics, melodies, and arrangement and also touch on the music production.
Remember, if you are a DSA member you can get your song critiqued by industry pros Barbe McMillen and Joe Milton
and be considered for the 2025 Member Song Contest and Songwriter of
the Year. Please Note: You must go to the Dallas Songwriters website
(see link below) to enter your song, or you can play them live. When
you go to the website look for "Forms" on the upper right-hand corner
of the page then point to "Song Critiques" and the form will show up.
You can type in the lyrics or cut & paste. For the song audio go to
"Choose File" and load your audio file(s), limit of 3 songs per
meeting. You can pay online via the critique form, and the cost is $10 per song.
