Podcast appearances and mentions of helen perris

Today, my guest is Helen Perris, a singer-songwriter and teacher. In this episode, we explore Helen's early life in Bundaberg, Queensland, where she grew up in a musical family surrounded by the rhythm and clickety clack of sugar cane trains. We explore her journey as a singer-songwriter and performer, her experiences as a teacher, and her ongoing passion for music that has been a constant throughout her life. Helen shares insights into her creative process, how she uses music as a therapeutic tool, and the challenges faced by independent artists in the music industry. We also discuss her new album - Remove This Shield - which emotionally reflect a range of personal stories and experiences. Helen is dedicated to fostering creativity, both in herself and in others and shares her thoughts on the power of music in personal expression, personal growth and healing. Helen emphasises the importance of creativity in education, the value of resilience, and the need for systemic changes to better support music students, artists and educators alike. Links: https://helenperris.bandcamp.com/album/remove-this-shield https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-perris-a1945229b/ https://helenperris.com/ https://helenperrismusic.com/

Living in Nashville as a songwriter is like being in the heart of the music industry. Just ask Sally Barris, a Nashville-based performing songwriter whose tracks have been covered by Martina McBride, Lee Ann Womack, Trisha Yearwood, and Keith Urban, earning one of her songs a Grammy nomination in 2009. Sally's journey and experiences offer a glimpse into the unique world of Nashville's music scene, and her co-writing tips are gold for any aspiring songwriter.Timestamp:6:20 - Sally discusses joining the I Heart Songwriting Club and its impact8:03 - Sally shares her journey to Nashville26:37 - The Grammy nomination33:19 - Reflecting on the feedback and categorisation of songs by the publisher37:19 - The universal appeal of honest songwriting and the importance 40:59 - Writing regularly with a group51:48 - The learnings from touring1:01:45 - Creating songwriting themes, including challenging prompts1:07:30 - Performance of "Magnify" About Sally: Sally Barris is a Nashville based performing songwriter who has had songs covered by such top-level artists as Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, and Lee Ann Womack. Her song “Let The Wind Chase You”, recorded by Trisha Yearwood and Keith Urban, received a Grammy nomination for vocal collaboration in 2009. While her writing credits mightily impress, fans and peers are most captivated by her bright spirit and expressive mountain soprano.  Dirty Linen says “Barris knows how to write lyrics that are as forthright as a stream of clear water and how to support them with melodies that share that quality”. The Minnesota native has performed Mountain Stage,  New Bedford Summer Fest, Wildflower Arts & Music Festival and The Kerrville Folk Festival. In 2021, Sally released her new cd “Grasshopper Mile”. Contact Sally: Website / Facebook / InstagramSong Credits:"Grasshopper Mile" - Written by Sally Barris, Sam Gay and Templeton Thompson and Performed by Sally Barris."Magnify" - Written and Performed by Sally Barris.Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.Check out more incredible music from our members:Listen to Helen Perris on BANDCAMPFollow Amanda Thomas via her WEBSITE and INSTAGRAMSign up for our Co-writing Course to improve your writing skills with others.Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. Don't struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: Instagram / Facebook / YouTubeBe inspired by Francesca on socials: YouTube / Facebook / InstagramTheme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence If you love this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and tell everyone you know about The Magic of Songwriting.

Helen Perris shares how becoming a prolific songwriter has significantly improved her mental health and how commitment versus perfection has played a vital part in that. We also discuss how songwriting regularly can help with detaching from the outcome of the song and how this opens the creative space up to so much magic. As a home-based business owner and mum of two children, Helen shares some practical parenting tips for finding the space and time to write, and how to minimise distractions to be able to get into flow state when the family is at home. A rich and rewarding listen.  Helen also performs her new song “Over Again” live at I Heart Songwriting Club HQ.Timestamp: 2:35 - Commitment and consistency versus perfection7:50 - Songwriting progress isn't linear, Helen shares some tips for effective learning13:57 - We discuss editing songs and the impact of writing a huge volume of songs 20:02 - Helen shares how regularly writing songs in a community has helped her mental health24:09 - How virtual songwriting spaces can be meaningful28:40 - Formal music training versus learning through experience 34:18 - We discuss the mental load or headspace to write songs, being in flow state 37:33 - We talk about some of the funny songs we've written and how this can unlock creativity 41:45 - How to cultivate space to write at home with a busy household51:27 - Helen shares about how she wrote “Over Again”, a love song to her husband and performs for us.1:02:21 - Helen discusses her upcoming projects and reflects on her songwriting development over the past 10 years About Helen Perris: Self-confessed dork with a keyboard, Helen Perris, combines the influences of her regional AM radio and musical theatre upbringing with more contemporary sounds. Imagine if Kate Bush and Sia had a musical love child via a Megan Washington surrogate, and you'd have a fairly good idea of her aesthetic.Helen Perris is proud to forge her own path in the independent music scene in Sydney. Eschewing the major-label model, she has successfully crowd-funded her two EPs and launched her own subscription community (similar to Patreon) to work on her music directly with her fanbase. She has been shortlisted for both the 2016 and 2017 Australian Songwriters Association Contest in two categories, was a finalist in two categories in the 2016 Australian Independent Music Awards, and was named in the National Top 20 (and Top 10 for NSW/NT/QLD/WA) Songwriters for the inaugural Listen Up Australia competition in 2016.Since launching her solo career in 2011, Helen Perris has shared a stage with Amanda Palmer, Kate Miller-Heidke, Brendan Maclean, Kim Boekbinder and others, and her unique and honest suite of songs have been heard in iconic venues such as The Butterfly Club (Melbourne), The Newsagency (Sydney) and El Rocco's (Sydney), and performed at Peats Ridge Festival, TEDx Canberra and in the world's smallest music venue, Folk in a Box at Sydney Festival.Contact Helen: BandcampFacebookInstagramYouTubeSong Credit: “Over Again” - Music and Lyrics by Helen Perris. Performed live by Helen Perris at I Heart Songwriting Club Headquarters.Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You'll receive lessons from Francesca directly!Don't struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. Want more for your songwriting but don't know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: InstagramFacebookYouTubeBe inspired by Francesca on socials:YouTubeFacebookInstagramTheme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence If you love this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and tell everyone you know about The Magic of Songwriting. Thank you for joining us.

Join Spider and Shels on open topic night. In our LTATM Radio Official (group) had a poll what we should talk about on this episode. The Question is: Song Writing - What do you do to get the creativity flowing to writing songs? SO what we are looking for is this... You can either tell us by posting your stories on this event page and we'll read it on the show. ---- playlist: Heart Avail, SPIDERintheHALL, Johnny No Feather, Helen Perris, Last Snow, LAMEBOT, and The Jack Maybe Project. ---- Let’s Talk About the Music was a Humorous, Controversial Talk Show with a Global Mix of Music. Wednesday Nights at 7 pm - 10pm (PST). www.ltatmradio.com DISCLAIMER: Let's Talk About The Music was part of LTATM Radio Network and did broadcast live on Spreaker. You could have listened to on-Demand on IHeartRadio, Stitcher, Itunes and Spotify. We play only Independent Music across the globe. We did follow the rules & got all of their permissions to their music from MusicSubmit.com, Ramshaw Records, LTATM Promotions and Broken Monkey Music Productions. please visit www.Letstalkaboutthemusic.com for more details.

Shels and Spider introduce Sinder to T-Pin from Shakespeare's Unit from Haiti. We are going to talk about their new music video and how their career is going. ---------- playlist: Joey Stuckey, Helen Perris, Shakespeare's Unit, and SPIDERintheHALL ------------------- Let’s Talk About the Music was a Humorous, Controversial Talk Show with a Global Mix of Music. Wednesday Nights at 7 pm - 10pm (PST). www.ltatmradio.com DISCLAIMER: Let's Talk About The Music was part of LTATM Radio Network and did broadcast live on Spreaker. You could have listened to on-Demand on IHeartRadio, Stitcher, Itunes and Spotify. We play only Independent Music across the globe. We did follow the rules & got all of their permissions to their music from MusicSubmit.com, Ramshaw Records, LTATM Promotions and Broken Monkey Music Productions. please visit www.Letstalkaboutthemusic.com for more details.

Shels and Spider (spiderinthehall.bandcamp.com) S2:E74 - opened topic on "Stop Gun Violence Now" Every last Wednesday night of each month, Spider and Shels as an open topic where everyone is welcome to join. This is where past guest and listeners can come onto the show for an open topic. -- Playlist: King George, Johnny No Feather, the euro theatre, Zirp, Shakespeare's Unit, Helen Perris, SPIDERintheHALL, and Thomas Hayden. -- Let’s Talk About the Music was a Humorous, Controversial Talk Show with a Global Mix of Music. Wednesday Nights at 7 pm - 10pm (PST). www.ltatmradio.com DISCLAIMER: Let's Talk About The Music was part of LTATM Radio Network and did broadcast live on Spreaker. You could have listened to on-Demand on IHeartRadio, Stitcher, Itunes and Spotify. We play only Independent Music across the globe. We did follow the rules & got all of their permissions totheir music from MusicSubmit.com, Ramshaw Records, LTATM Promotions and Broken Monkey Music Productions. please visit www.Letstalkaboutthemusic.com for more details.

Spider is taken some time off as Shels invites Marjorie from Magical Things to join her as she talks to Helen Perris a gifted musicians that teaches young musicians in Australia. --- Information--- Let’s Talk About the Music was a Humorous, Controversial Talk Show with a Global Mix of Music. Wednesday Nights at 7 pm - 10pm (PST). www.ltatmradio.com DISCLAIMER: Let's Talk About The Music was part of LTATM Radio Network and did broadcast live on Spreaker. You could have listened to on-Demand on IHeartRadio, Stitcher, Itunes and Spotify. We play only Independent Music across the globe. We did follow the rules & got all of their permissions totheir music from MusicSubmit.com, Ramshaw Records, LTATM Promotions and Broken Monkey Music Productions. please visit www.Letstalkaboutthemusic.com for more details.

Everybody take cover for our COVER ME, BRO! special – songs that probably haven’t been covered before, probably for good reason… as voted by YOU!

Slapdash Song Night! is back and will now be available for your earholes fortnightly! Enjoy part 1 of our super-fun "Songs for the Uncool" episode, recorded June 1st 2014, packed with singy-singing nerds, dorks and dweebs! 01:32 Opening number 05:23 Opening spiel 08:36 Sugar & Vice 19:48 Helen Perris 25:16 Pontus Aleryd & Bridget Keating (with Lauren Kenyon and Steven Kreamer) 40:40 Cover Me, Bro!

We nerd it up BIG TIME with this crazy-fun, Star Wars-inspired geekstravaganza... 5:45 Lady Sings It Better 16:45 Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd 20:15 Bryce Halliday 26:00 Cover Me, Skywalker!: I Wanna Be Dr Who by Jackson Zumdish 32:48 Slapdash Theme 34:32 Audience suggestions for the next Cover Me, Bro! 35:43 Keira Vs Pete's Intergalactic Songwriting War – round 4 46:44 Blake Erickson 55:04 Slapdash surprise guest! 1:01:19 Exclaim Theatre Co. 1:15:45 Closer

1:45 Jim Fishwick 9:30 Valère (Brendan Hay) 21:21 Cover Me, Bro! Keira and Courtney cover Space Rape by Gaye Bykers On Acid 26:10 Gigi Fontaine 40:00 "Pete" Vs Keira's Songwriting Battle – round 3 51:11 Blake Erickson 1:07:25 Closer

1:35 Opener 4:50 Alice Fraser 15:43 Blank the Musical 24:14 Cover Me, Bro!: Ray Martin Has A Shed Full Of Giant Robotic Killer Wasps by Nancy Vandal 27:30 Slapdash theme song 29:07 Audience suggestions for Cover Me, Bro! 32:01 Keira vs Pete's Songwriting Battle – round 2 37:16 Courtney Powell 48:11 Squabbalogic's The Drowsy Chaperone 59:00 Closer

Our very first episode of musical variety goodness! Host Keira Daley is joined by Benny Davis and the Laughasaurus (Mark Sutton), Bryce Halliday, Anjullah (Monique Salle), Rebecca de Unamuno, Shannon McKinn, Mark Simpson, Toby Francis, Lady Sings It Better, Mark Chamberlain, Joey Pangilinan, Peter Lead, Tim de Sousa.