Banjo Workshop with Frank Lee
Join Freight Hoppers’ banjo player Frank Lee for an overview of old-time banjo technique. Beginner to advanced players welcome!

Join Freight Hoppers’ banjo player Frank Lee for an overview of old-time banjo technique. Beginner to advanced players welcome!
Enjoy some of America’s swing songbook with sock rhythm guitar, tasty mandolin riffs and sweet two-part harmony. Hear chestnuts from both sides, the jazz and the western swing, including Guess
This workshop, led by Rhythm Queen Barb Silverman (Silver Rose), will pull together sounds from washboards, sandpaper blocks, shakers, sticks and feet into one big magical rhythm orchestra. This delightful
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Blind Boy will show three different levels of finger picking for all comers. The first third of the workshop will be basic finger picking for beginners – “dead thumb” and
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Join Brandon Bailey for this beginning/intermediate seminar that will cover basic rhythmic and melodic skills for playing blues style harmonica. Emphasis will be placed on tone, groove and developing musicianship.
Join guitar instructor Rob Krumm from the Community Center for the Arts for the Guitar From Scratch Workshop. If you have never played the guitar before, or if you played
Aside from being a consummate storyteller, Mike plays guitar, banjo, jaw harp, noseflute, bones, and more. He is best known as an outstanding mountain dulcimer player – one of the
Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo, of Red Tail Ring – the Michigan-based old/new-time duo, will discuss, and demonstrate through song, approaches to playing old ballads and tunes that honor the
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Turn the tables on those fiddle tunes and make them sing on the guitar! Robbie Fulks will show you the way.