Workshop Title: Songwriters Symposium
Highlighted Topics: Turning words into rhythm, Lyric writing, Starting a tune, Computer music notation software, Publishing, Copyrights and royalties
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: The Business of the Music Business
Highlighted Topics: Copyrights and royalties, Publishing, Producing quality demos, Getting airplay, Marketing
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: Stage Performance
Highlighted Topics: Performance training, Relating to the audience, More than a singer - a communicator, Mic technique
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: Movement in Song: Don't Stand There Like A Statue
Highlighted Topics: Attaching movement and emotions to words
Length: 4 hours, or custom (individual lessons available)

Workshop Title: Vocal Coaching
Highlighted Topics: Breath control, intonation, posture, resonance, vocal pedagogy, vowel placement
Length: 4 hours, or custom (individual lessons available)

KCCH Music is currently accepting booking requests for these exciting, new workshops led by Clayton B. Howell and Keith Caldwell. Each workshop provides the participant with valuable information about specific aspects of the songwriting process and the music business.

Clayton B. Howell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance and has been honored with multiple Songwriting Awards during his professional career, which started at the young age of fifteen. Clay has had several of his original songs hit the Top Ten on multiple national and International charts. In July 2008, "Come Hungry To His Banquet Table" co-written with the song's vocalist, Keith Caldwell, marked the first #1 Hit Single for both men as songwriters and Keith's first #1 Hit Single as a Gospel Recording Artist. As a pianist and vocalist, Clay has performed almost every type of music known to man at myriad venues from concert halls to churches to New York style cabarets.

Keith Caldwell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. Keith has enjoyed a successful and extensive professional theatrical career beginning in New York's Trixie True, Teen Detective in 1980. Keith was New York City's top male cabaret singer for ten years performing in such well-known clubs as The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, The Eighty-Eights, Paulsen's and The Paper Moon. Keith, not only an actor and vocalist, has taught music and acting at the University level, has been a model, and has proven his talent as a songwriter and recording artist.

Keith Caldwell's most recent CD, A God of Second Chances, co-written with Clayton B. Howell, has seen immediate success. The CD's first track, "Come Hungry To His Banquet Table," reached #1 on the International Gospel charts. The title track, "A God of Second Chances" debuted at #5, and is still within the Top Ten for October at #9. Within a week of its release, "If Christ Was Never Born" was nominated for multiple Gospel music awards.