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Join a panel of award winning producers, songwriters and composers to find out how they managed to carve out a career in music, including how they wrote and produced their most popular pieces. This session will include a Q&A with the panel, a Networking Mixer, and a Song Clinic (where submitted audience material will be played, reviewed, and given notes). This event is a must for any emerging or established producers, songwriters, or composers. Limited availability, grab your spot now. Brought to you by woolvs.com, ecko.ac and ivorsacademy.com

The panel includes:

Iain Archer
Iain Archer is a writer, producer, singer and songwriter from Bangor, Northern Ireland. He is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner, winning the 2004 Album Award – Final Straw by Snow Patrol and Most Performed Work in 2016 for Grammy nominated Hold Back the River, which he co-wrote with James Bay. Additionally, Archer was a 2013 Ivor Novello Award nominee for Best Song Musically & Lyrically – Two Fingers by Jake Bugg. Iain has also produced and co-written with artists such as Niall Horan and Liam Gallagher.

DIE HEXEN
DIE HEXEN is an IFTA-winning & BIFA-nominated Irish composer, sound artist, producer, performance, visual artist and filmmaker (Dianne Lucille Campbell). Born and raised on the remote coast of Ireland, their avant-garde and often otherworldly creations exist and operate on the edge of reality.

DIE is a member of AWFC, Screen Composers Guild of Ireland, Primetime Network and a member of The Ivors Academy. Their work has screened across International film festivals such as TIFF, Tribeca, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, HOT DOCS, Sheffield Doc Fest, Edinburgh FF, Aesthetica, London Short Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Dublin International Film Fest, Tampere Film Festival, Berlin & New York Lift-Off Festival and Paris - ÉCU - European Independent Film Festival. In 2022 Empire Magazine featured DIE as one of the Top 5 composers currently working in film.

Tommy McLaughlin
Thomas McLaughlin is a songwriter & producer who owns and runs Attica Audio Recording - a commercial recording studio in Donegal, Ireland. Here he has produced and performed on two Mercury Prize-nominated albums Becoming A Jackal and Awayland for Domino-signed artist Villagers, the latter of which was awarded Ireland's Choice Irish Album Of The Year Award in 2014.

More recently Rough Trade artist SOAK chose Thomas to produce and perform on her much anticipated debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream which also went on to be Mercury Prize-nominated and win the Choice Irish Album Of The Year Award in 2016.

Michael Keeney
Michael Keeney is an Irish producer, composer, musician, song writer and orchestral arranger born in Donegal, Ireland. He has worked internationally in the music industry for over 20 years.

He has produced award winning sound and music for the BBC, RTE, PBS, DisneyJnr, CBC, ABC, and Universal Kids as well as having produced and co-wrote number of critically acclaimed albums, including Foy Vance's The Joy of Nothing. Michael is a two time UK Music Producers Guild Award winner, a Northern Ireland Music Prize winner, and a three time Northern Ireland Music Prize nominee.

Plus special guests…