A truly Lyons centric songwriting retreat and three performances
Upstream Concerts presents the Upstream Songwriting Retreat hosted by Clay Rose (Gasoline Lollipops), Phoebe Hunt, and Daniel Rodriguez (founding member of Elephant Revival) on January 26-29, 2023 in Estes Park, Colorado at Murphy’s Resort. Songwriters with varying experience will participate in two full days of workshops, song circles, and performances by their coaches, as well as by each other. Sunday will be spent in Lyons, Colorado recording at Animal Lane Studio with hands-on production coaching by Charlie Rose (Elephant Revival) and engineering by Dave O’Dell. Participating songwriters will perform at Moxie Mercantile throughout the day. These events are sponsored by Estes Arts District, Chase the Music (Lyons), Colorado Bluegrass Music Society, Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies, The Moores, Magic Fairy Candles, Stone Canyon Kennels (Lyons), and other good people of Lyons, Colorado.
Performances open to the public:
Thursday, January 26th:
Eben Grace and Billy Shaddox will welcome attending songwriters with a performance at Lonigan’s Grill, 110 West Elkhorn Avenue, Estes Park, Colorado. All are welcome and there is no cover charge. Music begins at 6 pm, starting with a short presentation by Clark Hodge of Chase the Music.
Saturday, January 27th:
Clay Rose, Phoebe Hunt, and Daniel Rodriguez will be performing three solo sets in a listening show setting at Lonigan’s Grill. This is a ticketed event. Visit www.snowygrass.com/retreat for tickets. Show begins at 7 pm. Doors at 6:30.
Sunday, January 29th: **LYONS**
Student songwriters will showcase at Moxie Mercantile (355 Main St, Lyons, Colorado) throughout the day, starting around 10:30 am. This event is sponsored by Magic Fairy Candles, Stone Canyon Kennels, and by three other local business owners and individuals in Lyons in honor and remembrance of Andy Clark, who was a supporter and friend of many songwriters, and a songwriter himself.
Phoebe Hunt
Phoebe and her sister, Stephanie Hunt have created and nurtured Fuel Our Fire, their 501c3 Not For Profit organization over the past 15 years. Through Fuel Our Fire, they have developed many programs, each unique in its service to “fuel the internal flame of inspiration” by utilizing music as a tool for transformation. These programs include The One Village Music Project, The Reveille Songwriting Retreat and Songs For Standing Rock. Phoebe has also developed an online music school, Seeds Of Music to encourage continual music education both within adults and children.
Daniel Rodriguez
Colorado singer-songwriter, Daniel Rodriguez, turns to his acoustic guitar for memorable, melodic hooks to accompany his poetic and contemplative folk songs. Boulder Weekly refers to Rodriguez’s voice as “a timeless voice, deep and hearty, weathered but comforting.”
With over a decade under his belt as one of the founding members and lead songwriters of the transcendental folk band, Elephant Revival, Rodriguez is well-versed in the Americana tour circuit. Before going on hiatus, after their third headlining Red Rocks show in May 2018, Elephant Revival had released six albums and performed countless shows and festivals across the nation as well as overseas.
Clay Rose
Clay Rose was raised between an outlaw, truck-driving father in the mountains of Colorado and a country song-writing mama in the sticks outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Clay’s penchant for open roads and trouble making are the backbone of the Gas Pops’ sound. Clay will be coaching at the Upstream Songwriting Retreat for the third time.
Charlie Rose
Starting as a student of the voice, piano, trombone, and guitar, he quickly picked up the bass, mandolin, and banjo during college playing music with friends while a student of geology in Lawrence, KS. Upon completing a science degree he set out to have a career in music, citing inspiration from a conversation with jazz guitarist John Scofield in which he relished his lack of a day job since the 70’s.
Over the years, Rose has played a lot of things with a lot of people. Frequently called upon to fill the sonic spot no one else seems to be able to fill, Charlie has found a musical thread and woven it into the americana, bluegrass, folk, and rock and roll scenes.
Charlie is as active as ever recording, producing, writing, and performing with various bands across the country (and world).
