2026 Spring Garden of England Retreat

We have announced our 22nd Countryside Retreat from the 27th March to 1st April 2026. The early-bird £549 price is fully inclusive of 5 night's accommodation, food and comprehensive songwriting facilitation.

The fresh air and stunning views come with the location!

From 2015 to 2025 London Songwriters has hosted 21 highly affordable Songwriting Retreats for over 300 happy writers from across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA. These have been for around 15 attendees at a beautiful spacious converted farm & writers have rated the experience 5 out of 5 with many returning for multiple subsequent retreats.

To receive further details please fill out the form to Register Your Interest for our Spring 2026 Retreat.

Whatever your experience, the benefits of attending the songwriting retreats are that you will:

• immerse yourself in your writing without the distractions of everyday life
• have a great time in beautiful surroundings with like-minded people
• increase the quantity and the quality of songs you write at the retreat and afterwards
• increase your confidence as a songwriter
• increase your songwriter connections and co-writing network
• write at least one or two songs each day
• receive recordings of songs written
• get encouragement and valuable feedback on your current repertoire
• learn and/or practise the essential songwriting 'tools' and 'rules' (and work out when you can break them)
• have a magical songwriting experience for less than the cost of holiday B&B/food alone

The songwriting retreats consist of songcraft presentations, co-writing and solo-writing briefs, songshares, country walks, country village pubs, open mics, all that you might want from a songwriting holiday break.

The time-limited early-bird discounted cost of the Spring Retreat is £549 for 5 nights.

To receive further details please fill out the form to Register Your Interest for our Spring 2026 Retreat.

Here are some testimonials from the writers:

‘The retreat was one of the best weeks of my life!’

‘Loved every minute and learned a lot. Great to be able to share ideas and mix with some very talented people’

‘I had a fabulous time and I am delighted with my new friendships and song output. It was a marvellous week.’

‘Just back from a magical song-writing retreat in Derbyshire with London Songwriters led by Murray Webster’

‘I’ve come away with 5 songs – 3 of which I plan on releasing in the future, so THANK YOU! for making it happen’

‘The guidance in the morning was excellent – focused, just the right amount of info, really important learning’

'I have learned not only about music and songwriting but also about myself and what I can achieve.'

'Excellent hosting, accommodation and good balance of group collaboration and song-sharing‘

'Fun walks, meals and songwriting, singing and collaborating.’‘

‘The scenery was amazing and I was glad to fit in a few walks during my stay.

Facilitator

Murray Webster has taught London Songwriters Evening Courses & Workshops for the last eleven years, including seventeen highly successful week-long Countryside Songwriting Retreats. He has a Masters Degree in Songwriting, a PTLLS Teaching Qualification as a Community Music Leader and has mentored young people in music skills for NCS – The Challenge.

He has a wealth of experience as a multi-genre songwriter, having performed at some of the most prestigious music venues including The Astoria, The Hammersmith Palais, The Forum, 100 Club, The WAG Club, The Mint (LA) and Douglas Corner Cafe (Nashville). Plus Radio and TV appearances on the Gilles Peterson and Gary Crowley shows and Channel 4 documentaries on The Soho Jazz Festival supporting Courtney Pine. He has recorded and filmed with producer Marius de Vries (Madonna, Bjork, John Legend, David Bowie etc.).

His self-produced tracks feature on CD-released albums featured in The Guinness Book Of Records, as well as single and album releases on CBS Records.

He also has self-released tracks on all digital platforms – the latest 7" Vinyl and EP ‘Blue Dansette’ is at music.murraywebstersongs.com

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