SLIDESHOW: Student Songwriters in the Summer Program

To the packed crowd at the Red Room at Cafe 939, these five-week songwriters are already big stars. Visiting professor Melissa Ferrick is center right.

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Devin D'Amato, a student in Berklee's Five-Week Summer Performance Program, plays his song "Addicted to You."

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Baltimore duo Adam and Evan harmonize.

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Arielle Deem of Davis, California performs "Goodbye for Now."

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Caroline Tew, from the UK, is "Better Off."

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Harry Gensemer plays "Firecracker Dunes."

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Will Fraker: Can 100 (more or less) screaming girls possibly be wrong?

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Chelsea Moore sings about driving in a Chevy.

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Collin Russell performs "Into the Wild."

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Kelsey Brown of Dallas plays "Stole."

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Nantucket's Meghan Trainor tells the audience that she wrote "One Chance" her first night at Berklee.

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Jessica Newham rounds out the bill with "Benedict Arnold."

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Devin D'Amato receives one of Melissa Ferrick's enthusiastic student introductions.

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The week of August 3 featured performances at several venues by some of the talented singer/songwriters who honed their original compositions at Berklee this summer. Singer/songwriter Melissa Ferrick '90 worked with some of the aspiring songwriters as a visiting professor for Berklee's Five-Week Summer Performance Program. Click on the side box for a slideshow of musicians from the August 4 show at Cafe 939. Learn more about the event.

to Jess Newham's "Benedict Arnold"

All photos by Phil Farnsworth.