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Manna: New co-writing project released
In 2018/ 2019 I got involved in a songwriting project at church. Just a couple of people who love Jesus and writing songs coming together to write. It was such an organic process of sharing what’s happening in our lives and then praying and writing together. By being part of this project a dream of mine – co-writing with other like-minded artists came true. We started recording the songs end of 2019 and the project was about 80% done when COVID hit. We continued recording from home last year and finally we had 6 songs completed by March this year. Most of March and April was consumed by getting the…
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My week attending The songwriting academy’s 555 Challenge
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Week 11: As die virus weg is
This week I wrote a fun song with my girls about all the things we’re going to do when the virus finally goes away! We used the loops on the iPad Garageband app again and had great fun arranging our song. Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash
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Week 10 – Hier by ons (vers)
We all have songs that we love while we’re writing them and then they turn back to pumpkins when dailight comes. This week I thought I finally had a verse for a great chorus I wrote awhile ago. But, alas, in dailight they did not seem such a good match after all. One thing I have learned, though, is that no lyric or song idea ever is a waste. It might just come back to you in a co-writing session as you search for a verse or some lyrics. Sometimes you can take lyrics and just write a new melody later and suddenly it works. So, here is this week’s…
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Week 8 – Ek moet swyg
“Ek moet swyg voor U heerlikheid, Ek moet swyg en U almag prys Wanneer U aan my genade bewys Ek moet swyg” This week’s song is a Christmas worship song. I had written the chorus in 2017 with the idea to use it together with Psalm 8 out of the Afrikaans hymn book (Die Liedboek). When I started writing the verses for this new song, it just fitted together so well I decided to use it here instead. The whole song talks about the world and our response to the Christmas message – darkness that has to flee before the Light of the world; nations that will bow before His…
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Week 7 – Kortpad deur die Vrystaat
There’s nothing like the long road ahead of you – kilometre after kilometre of flat farmland and time and space to think. Except if you have to dodge trucks on the N1… So, we decided to take a shortcut through the Free State this year on our way down to the coast. We even drove some dirtroad due to Google maps’ recommendation of the shortest road. Well, it turned out that the shortest road was indeed the prettiest and I really enjoyed driving through the Free State. As a little girl we always went to my grandmother’s farm just outside Edenburg and there I learned to love the Free State…
