August 2007
Judith-Kate Friedman facilitates a series of Songwriting Works™ workshops at four Port Townsend retirement residences as guest artist with Arts to Elders, a new Jefferson-county based non-profit.
Spring/Summer 2007
Songwriting Works received the MetLife Foundation/American Society on Aging MindAlert Award in March 2007. Founding Director Judith-Kate Friedman accepted the award at the American Society on Aging/National Council on the Aging joint conference and joins the MindAlert training faculty. In June, partnering health , arts, and life-long learning organizations in Atlanta, Chicago , Minneapolis, and Los Angeles won MindAlerts grants to bring Ms. Friedman in to demonstrate the Songwriting Works™ process with older adults and to work hands-on with caregivers and artist facilitators. For info on the MindAlert training click here.-
February 2007
Judith-Kate Friedman celebrates 10 years of Songwriting Works artist-inresidency programs at the Jewish Home San Francisco. -
Winter 2006
Nathan Friedkin’s documentary "A 'Specially Wonderful Affair," featuring Singers & Songwriters of the Jewish Home, average age 87, and Songwriting Works’ founding director Judith-Kate Friedman, received Best Music Video of the Year, 3rd place honors from the international Just Plain Folks awards. -
Summer 2006
Founding Director Judith-Kate Friedman demonstrates Songwriting Works with researches and experts on Creativy and Aging at the first Symopsium and Think Tank on Creativity and Dementia, Center on Age and Community, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Proceedings and Findings of the Think Tank are documented in the Symposium White Paper. -
April 2006
Songwriting Works moves from the San Francisco Bay Area to Port Townsend, WA -
2005
West Coast composers performed settings of peace poems by Zen artist and author Kazuaki Tanahashi for a standing-room-only audience at Berkeley’s renowned Freight & Salvage in April 2005.
The concert, which benefited Tanahashi’s non-profit organization “A World Without Armies: the Costa Rica Initiative” was a genre-bending evening of folk, gospel , baroque, avante garde and funk, from internationally acclaimed artists ranging in age from their -
mid-20’s to mid-70’s. Performers included Robert Kyr and Shira Kammen, Betsy Rose, Bodhi and Joyus’ Rhythm Matrix, Edie Hartshorne and the Foxglove Trio, Judith-Kate Friedman , Evelie Delfino Såles Posch and M.C. Wes “Scoop” Nisker.
Tanahashi, Hartshorne and Friedman then reprised the concert with Central American musicians and educators at an international 60th anniversary celebration of the signing of the United Nations charter at UPAZ (University of Peace) in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. A live concert CD “Imagining Peace” was released in April 2006.
Songwriting Works’ founding director Judith-Kate Friedman served as producer of both the concerts and recording.
For concert photos visit the Songs/Gallery.