Oct 13 2024 12 mins
In this episode, AAFIE's Dale Murray is joined by Katie Wighton and Barry Davies.
QLD Conservatorium-trained, ARIA award winning artist/writer, Katie Wighton, is co-founder of alt-folk group All Our Exes Live in Texas. With the Exes, Katie toured the world as support for Midnight Oil and is now a regular visitor to Nashville where she has become an in-demand songwriting collaborator for prominent global artists. Katie is a songwriting educator at Monash University and mentor with SongMakers.
Barry Davies is a music teacher at St. Joseph's School in Geelong Victoria. He is also a member of the Victorian APRA SongMakers Teacher Advisory Panel. Since 2014, he has been involved with SongMakers, helping to deliver their programs in government schools.
In 2022, SongMakers and St Joseph's School collaborated to develop the SongMakers FLEX program, which is designed to support young people in flexible learning environments create and produce their own music.
In this conversation Katie and Barry talk about their partnership, and some plans for the AAFIE Special Interest Group, with the vision of amplifying the musical talents of young people in Flexi's across Australia.
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