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Darebin Songwriters Guild was established for songwriters in the City of Darebin [Melbourne] to meet, collaborate and perform. All are welcome to events.

Darebin Songwriters' Guild was established by Moria Tyers and Wendy Ealey in 2006. The City of Darebin is located within the City of Melbourne Australia. Darebin has the highest number of resident songwriters and artists within Melbourne, and Australia. Moria and Wendy recognised a need to bring songwriters together within the local area, and created the 'Guild' to enable collaboration and support between songwriters.
The City of Darebin (Local Government) is a proud and major supporter of the 'Guild', and a songwriters music festival which is held in Northcote around September each year called The Darebin Music Feast. The festival is a celebration of the creativity of songwriters and musicians within the area and provides an avenue for expression and performance of original materials.
As part of the Darebin Music Feast The City of Darebin runs a songwriters competition. This competition bosts the largest amount of entries of any established songwriting competition in Australia. The Songwriting competition is open to residents of the City of Darebin, and or persons who work in, or live in the City of Darebin for a period of at least 10 hours per week.
What does the Darebin Songwriters Guild offer:
Access to a local venue in which to perform your original material with other members (currently event is every 6 weeks), Sundays 3.30 to 7pm.
Songwriting workshops leading up to Darebin Songwriters Feast.
Chance to meet and socialise with other songwriters
Opportunity to learn about performance and managing on a stage that is fully amplified
Opportunities to test your songwriting materials with a supportive crowd, and get constructive feeback about your songwriting ( if you wish).
Provide avenue to launch your CD as a featured artist.
Who can join the Darebin Songwriters Guild? What does it cost?
Anyone can join. There is no fee for memebership to the Guild. Modest Coin donations are very much appreciated at Guild events. This allows to purchase and replace equipment used for performances.
Do I have to be experienced to play at the regular Guild events?
No. The Guild has members from all different levels of experience. new persons and welcome, and are encouraged to continue and to develop their 'style's and experiment. The Guild emphasises and concentrates on the song, and songwriting, not the experience of a member. When performing you will be limited to 3 songs. Some events have a featured artist who performs for 40 to 45 minutes.
Do I have to play within a particular style of music to join and/or perform with the Guild?
No. Fellow Guildian's represent many musical styles, and play many types of instruments. You do not have to be able to play an instrument to perform. Styles presented in the past have been blues, indi, country, soul, swing, folk, traditional folk, rock, pop, jazz, soul, funk, cabaret, comical presentations, rock 'n' roll, classical, rockabilly, ragtime.
Songwriting Workshops.
There is a cost to attend songwriting workshops. The costs are kept as low as possible and used to fund the guest Songwriter/Presenter, and event. Workshops are usually presented by Melbourne based singer/songwriters who are successful within the music industry.