The Henhouse Hang is a unique 3-day music recording seminar in the heart of East Nashville, focused on recording and mixing Roots music from the ground up at Steve Dawson’s Henhouse Studio. This is your chance to experience the process of producing music in a room full of well-seasoned veterans. Steve has dedicated the last 20 years of his life to making records, and the skills and experience of working in this style are totally unique. Steve will be joined by his long-time friend and recording engineer Sheldon Zaharko, and a cast of world-class Nashville session musicians. The goal will be to produce and record 2 songs for a guest artist, from the ground up in that time, and showing you recording and production techniques that are instrument-specific, but also ensemble-based along the way. The Americana/Roots genre is unique in that recording a live band performance is an accepted and preferred way to work. We don’t make bed tracks and add instruments one at a time. We get the whole band in the room and play some music! You’ll see how Nashville Number charts get written and used while the band hears the song for the first time, how lyric sheets get referenced, how instrumental parts are developed, and how the band works together to create music that is both respectful to the song but also an inspired performance by all those involved. You’ll see how we get sounds from various instruments and the techniques involved in capturing them in a recording using various microphones and other equipment. All of these skills take a long time to learn and to master, and it’s almost impossible to find a way to experience a recording session like this first-hand without being one of the musicians on the session. We hope to change that by opening the doors to a small group of people who want to learn this engaging, interactive and unique way of making music.