Recording Production Workshop with Erin Costelo
Tuesday, March 7 | 10:00 - 4:00 pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall | Fountain School of Performing Arts
1385 Seymour St. Halifax, NS
Free and open to the public, no registration required. Masks are mandatory.
Singer-songwriter students from Dalhousie's Fountain School of Performing Arts and Nova Scotia Community College will present their work to artist, songwriter and producer Erin Costelo. Costelo will work with students and faculty from various areas of study, highlighting how she works while pre-producing studio albums. Workshop participants will first hear the original version of student-submitted songs and then watch the inter-disciplinary creative recording production process unfold. The transformed piece is presented at the end of each session.
This full-day event will be divided into two, with one group presenting their work in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Lunch break is scheduled from 12:20 – 1:30pm. Participants are encouraged to stay for the full day.
A triple threat, Erin Costelo has numerous awards to her credit as an artist, songwriter and producer. Her records have received critical acclaim and extensive airplay in Canada, the US and Europe where she has delighted concert audiences for over a decade as both a headliner and opener for such notable legends as Mavis Staples, Dr. John, and Boz Scaggs. She has also shared the stage with Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble, Amy Helm, Shannon McNally, Matt Anderson and Joel Plaskett.
Erin has written horn and string arrangements for Juno award winners Amelia Curran and Stephen Fearing and for Polaris Prize nominated hip hop artist, Aquakultre. She has received numerous commissions for her writing including the Upstream Ensemble, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Blue Engine String Quartet and the Hourglass ensemble. In 2021, Erin did choral arrangements and mixed the recording for a group of international choristers commissioned by the prestigious Eisteddfod Festival in Wales.
This workshop is made possible through the generous support of the J & W Murphy Foundation.