8 BALL AITKEN & TAYA CHANI - SONGWRITING WORKSHOP & STUDIO GIG
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 12:00 am to 11:00 am
UTC+10:00Location
Glass House Mountains | Glass House Mountains, QL
8 BALL AITKEN & TAYA CHANI SONGWRITING WORKSHOP at 8 Ball's recording studio in the Glass House Mountains, QLD.
SAT MAR 7th, 10am-4pm.
Studio concert 6pm-9pm.
Beginners to advanced. All welcome. This workshop is your chance to craft songs, write a new song and go behind the scenes in a professional recording studio working songwriting veterans 8 Ball & Taya.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS...
8 BALL AITKEN & TAYA CHANI
Two heavyweights of the Australian soul-blues-rock scene 8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani have teamed up with a new album project ‘Nightbird’. They represented the Blues Association of South-East Queensland at the 2026 International Blues Challenge and we’re semifinalists.
The title-track of their 2025 album ‘Nightbird’ immediately hit #1 on the Australian AMRAP Regional Charts for two weeks in a row as did their second single ‘Miss You The Most’. The album was #2 for several months in the Austtralian Blues & Roots Radio Charts. They’re signature harmonies and groovy guitars have proved to be a winning combination making them festival favorites Australia-wide.
8 Ball Aitken performed around the world for more than a decade across twenty countries to date. 8 Ball moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2012 and worked for nine years with many of the best in the blues and roots business today. He won second place in the 2021 International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
Soul-blues singer Taya Chani released her debut album 'Restless Heart' widespread airplay and rave reviews in 2019. In 2023, the duo released their first collaboration, ‘Only Guiding Light’ from album ‘Ice Cream Man 2’ that hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts.
8 Ball and Taya’s mutual love for Southern American music, blues, country, soul and fancy jazz chords brought them together. Whilst on their first Australian tour in 2022, they began co-writing songs. They realised very quickly that they had an album worth if songs and set a studio date.
The cast of musicians on the new ‘Nightbird’ album include USA saxophone legend Buddy Leach (George Thorogood & The Destroyers), drummer extraordinaire Declan Kelly, and 8 Ball’s younger brother Dillion James Aitken on keys.
8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani are touring Australia for the rest of the year on the ‘Nightbird Album Tour’.
Check out the tour dates, videos, merch and more on 8ballaitken.com
Where is it happening?
Glass House Mountains, Australia
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