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| COMEDY SONG WORKSHOP with Carla Ulbrich Saturday September 27th: 11:00am to 1:30pm. SusieCool will be hosting a workshop at CFMA headquarters, 3020 E. Robinson Street (where the ISG meetings are held). It's a 2-hour comedy song workshop. Featuring Carla Ulbrich. http://www.carlau.com She'll play a few of her songs, a few of other people's and talk about what makes something funny, devices for structuring funny songs, coming up with ideas, writing mistakes to avoid, performance tips, choosing material, and making a funny song even funnier. She's open to a feedback/ critique session if folks want to bring their funny songs. Suggested donation $15 (Carla will be performing at Leu Gardens the next day for Central Florida Folk). About Carla Carla's live shows and CDs, have earned her amazing reviews and spiffy songwriting awards: Best Upbeat and Best Overall, 1999 South Florida Folk Fest's Song Competition; first place, 2000 and 1998 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest; second place, 1998 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest; second place: Gamble Rogers Folk Fest's Fingerpicking contest; grants from the SC Arts Commission and Jim Beam to help fund recordings, and endorsements from Takamine and John Pearse Strings. Carla has taught guitar at several colleges, Hummingbird Music Camp, and the National Guitar Workshop. After a year of fighting back from a health crisis, she is back to touring relentlessly all over the country. She has appeared on numerous radio stations as well as USA's Up All Night, and has shared the bill with such luminaries as Cheryl Wheeler and Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel. Carla Ulbrich is a member of ASCAP and President of the Difficult Last Name Club, likes cheese, and collects bottlecaps. A fan favorite on the long-running, nationally syndicated Dr. Demento show, award-winning songwriter and Professional Smart Aleck Carla Ulbrich has been compared to the likes of Ray Stevens, Christine Lavin, Jerry Seinfeld, Chet Atkins and Jewel. As for the guy who compared Carla to Jewel... he had been drinking heavily. Originally from South Carolina,Carla is currently based in South Florida (although she spends more time in the van than anywhere else). Carla brings a mix of humor, poignancy and nifty guitar playing to the stage. She began playing guitar at the age of nine, joined the school band at 12 and played a different instrument every year in band: flute, clarinet, piccolo, xylophone and sousaphone- a marching tuba.Once in a while an obliging friend lets her sit in on a song or two with her tuba during a concert. |