Darwin Song Project - Rachael McShane
writes:
"I've been enjoying the looks on people's faces on telling them I've just spent a week in a 16th Century farmhouse in rural Shropshire writing songs about Charles Darwin! I must admit, in the run up to the project I was beginning to wonder what I'd let myself in for. I knew very little about Charles Darwin or science and I'd be living and working with a bunch of people I didn't know.
"I've been enjoying the looks on people's faces on telling them I've just spent a week in a 16th Century farmhouse in rural Shropshire writing songs about Charles Darwin! I must admit, in the run up to the project I was beginning to wonder what I'd let myself in for. I knew very little about Charles Darwin or science and I'd be living and working with a bunch of people I didn't know.
There was also the pressure of the concert at the end of the week, which would be recorded for a live CD...all this in a week! Add into the mix the involvement of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and it all felt a little like a reality TV/social experiment of some sort...only with folk musicians! 'Day 2 in the Darwin Song House and is struggling to open a can of sardines'...that type of thing. I needn't have worried though as Neil Pearson (project organiser) had filled the house with booze so we got stuck into that, which eased the tension nicely.
had aÌý moment of mathematical genius and worked out that everyone could work with everyone over 2 days in either a two or a three. We may well have floundered without her. Teaming up with and on the first day of song writing was a great start to the week. Mark's 'Kingdom Come' song was a belter. It was great to have the luxury of a whole week just to write and play music with some excellent musicians and I'm proud to have been a part of such a great project."
Read more blogs from writers involved in the over the next week and you'll be able to hear interviews from the songhouse as well as some of the newly composed songs on my programme on Wednesday 8th April.
had aÌý moment of mathematical genius and worked out that everyone could work with everyone over 2 days in either a two or a three. We may well have floundered without her. Teaming up with and on the first day of song writing was a great start to the week. Mark's 'Kingdom Come' song was a belter. It was great to have the luxury of a whole week just to write and play music with some excellent musicians and I'm proud to have been a part of such a great project."
Read more blogs from writers involved in the over the next week and you'll be able to hear interviews from the songhouse as well as some of the newly composed songs on my programme on Wednesday 8th April.
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