Telling Our Stories 2022
Tamara Saviano's engine runs on "aha" moments, awakenings, letting go, and by the transformational power of stories. The multi-award-winning author of Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, memoirist and music industry maven, will lead a full-day writing workshop on biography and memoir for a small group (limit 20) at Blue Rock. The normal fee would be $300 - however, several generous supporters of the Blue Rock Foundation have provided scholarships to the entire group of participants, so we are glad to extend a 50% discount to 20 fortunate writers.
The workshop will cap three days of music, film screening, and creative writing: November 10: LIVE Streamed Guy Clark Tribute Concert featuring Noel McKay; November 11: Online Screening: Without Getting Killed or Caught (a documentary by Tamara Saviano & Paul Whitfield). The fee includes a seat in-house at the Saturday workshop + online passes to the live streamed concert on Thursday + online film screening Friday evening.
Telling Our Stories
Biography and Memoir Workshop with Tamara Saviano
Saturday, November 12, 2022, 9:00am—6pm
Light Breakfast + Lunch included
$150
Limit 20 seats. Request your reservation here: rsvp@bluerocktexas.com
Tamara Saviano is an author, filmmaker, and Grammy and Americana Award winning producer. Saviano's memoir, "The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter and the Healing Power of Music" was named one of the best books of 2014 by the Chicago Book Review. Saviano's biography on legendary songwriter Guy Clark, "Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark," won the Belmont Award for the best writing on country music in 2016. Her documentary about Clark, also titled "Without Getting Killed or Caught," is the winner of SXSW’s 2021 Louis Black Lonestar Award and the 2021 Rockport Film Festival’s Audience Award.
Saviano's music productions include "Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster" (awarded a Grammy in 2004), "The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson," "Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne,"
"Red Hot: A Memphis Celebration of Sun Records," and the Grammy-nominated "This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark," which won Album of the Year at the Americana Honors & Awards in 2012. She also produced Kristofferson's Grammy-nominated "Cedar Creek Sessions" in 2015. In 2017, Saviano was honored with the Darrell K. Royal Texas Music Legend Award by the Texas Heritage Songwriter Association. In 2020, the Austin Music Awards honored Saviano with the Margaret Moser Award, dedicated to influential women in the music business. Saviano lives in Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee with her husband Paul Whitfield.
