Music

Over the years, I’ve had people come up and ask me how I write songs. I’ll get questions like, “How long does it take you to write a song?” Or, “What do you write first, the music or the lyrics?” The beautiful thing about songwriting is that the process isn’t predictable; not for me, anyway. There is no singular way to craft a song....

Some say Springfield is a big city and a small town all rolled into one. Everywhere you go there is a connection – this is definitely true within the music circles around town. It is these very connections that brought Cheryll Moll and Barth Fraker to Schweitzer Church a few years ago. Robert McDowell, who served as the minister of music and education, heard there...