Songs From a Room

 Lorraine Leckie joins us on the podcasts. She talks about her start in music after years as a successful make up artists and how she starts the Greenpoint Songwriter exchange, a weekly meet up for songwriters to workshop their new material in an open community oriented atmosphere. 

Doo Crowder has performed music in Denver, LA, and across the country. Getting by on music and teaching music to children in a detention center. He shares his personal stories that inspire the music for his upcoming albums as well as inspirations for his more recent work. 

Benji Mark is a singer/songwriter and musical therapist currently living in New Paltz. He shares with us his experience teaching music to children and the spiritual and romantic journeys that inspired his music. 

We sit down and talk to Hoagie about the songs he gathered for his up coming album Other Folks. A rock opera about growth and learning to work with others. 

Morton Millen shares his music with us and talks about growing up in England and living in the East Village then shares us a touching song about losing his horse. 

We talk to Peter Siegmann aka The Lowliest One. He tells us how his journey that brought him into becoming a singer songwriter and using a pseudonym to separate the music from the man.   

Ben Pagano sits down and shows  shares with us the songs working toward his next album currently in the works. 

This episode features Rebecca Tilles from her apartment in the upper east side. She share's with us some of her new music, writing her dual citizenship between Sweden and America. 

Ben Schapiro returns to the podcast and tells us about meditation and how it's helped him grow as a songwriter. 

Kristen Merritt was born in Detroit and spend her younger years moving around the south before presiding in Williamsburg.  We learn about her life here in New York and learning how to write songs on her own after playing and writing with a band.