Rod MacDonald Workshops & Lectures

FAU Lifelong Learning: Milestones in American Music
FAU Lifelong Learning Concerts
Songwriting Workshops

FAU Lifelong Learning: Milestones in American Music
Eight lectures fall 2007 and winter 2008 at Florida Atlantic University campuses in Boca Raton, Jupiter, and Port St Lucie. To view the course prospectus and schedule, click here.

FAU Lifelong Learning Concerts
December 14--FAU Broward "Songs of Greenwich Village"
January 8--"The New Folk Music" with Cleopatra's Noodle
January 14--"My Life in the Brill Building" with George Goehring, Nicole Yarling, Ellen Bukstel

Songwriting Workshops
"Songwriting For Self Expression" is a workshop for beginning thru advanced songwriters, to inspire and sharpen each participant's skills and ability to express oneself. It is not a workshop in writing commercial songs, although some may emerge from it from time to time. Rod has led this workshop at the New York Open Center, the Amp Shop in West Palm Beach, and has also taught various forms of songwriting workshops at Common Ground on the Hill, the Southeast Unitarian-Universalist Summer Institute, the Endicott (NY) Arts Center, and several other festivals and arts venues.The following are two articles about his workshops: a recent article in Binghamton, NY and an older one from Fort Lauderdale, FL: