Harmonica Workshop With Doug and Dave
It’s easy to begin to learn to play harmonica! Doug Schroer and Dave Witzany will lead the group using key of C diatonic 10 hole harmonicas to help you learn about the instrument
Don’t Fear the Speaker: A Musician’s Guide to Live Sound, with the Red Sea Pedestrians
This workshop covers the basics of live sound geared towards working musicians: how to hook up a simple PA when you need to run sound yourself, how to work with
Jazzin’ Up Your Blues, Guitar Workshop with Ivas Dambrauskas and Zach Priester
Band leader Ivas John and guitar player Zach Priester (an alum of the jazz program at the University of New Orleans) will help guitar players with concepts that can make
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Guitar Fingerpicking & Songwriting Workshop, with Keith Harden
Here’s your chance to learn from master picker and songwriter, Keith Harden! Saturday, November 2nd, 1:45pm-2:45pm C4A III Free
Cigar Box Banjo Workshop, with Tony Taylor
Interested in building your own cigar box guitar/banjo? Join Ascendent Instruments owner Tony Taylor as he shows off his varied collection of home-made instruments and gets you thinking about how
Yoga for Musicians
Does your neck or back ache after playing? Are your fingers, wrists and shoulders sore? Do you often lose your breath while you’re singing? Don’t worry! Yoga can help! In
Swing Dance Lesson with Paul Kwiat
Learn swing from everyone’s favorite dancing physics professor, Paul Kwiat! Then stick around for the swing dance, with music provided by the Champaign Central High School Jazz Ensemble. Friday, November
Dance Try-Its
Yes, you CAN have it all! Spend a delightful hour-and-a-half learning three different dance traditions. Irish (with Daniel Flora) English and Scandinavian (with Jon and Sue Hanson) International Folk
Day of the Dead Workshop, with Los Condenados Huastecos
In the Mexican Huasteca and Sierra Gorda regions, it is custom for huapango huasteco and huapango arribeño ensembles to perform the vinuete at vigils for patron saints and funeral wakes. In
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Banjo Styles Workshop, with Stephen Wade
2013 Grammy nominee Stephen Wade plays in a variety of banjo styles largely learned from personal contact with older generation Southern musicians. Last fall he released Banjo Diary: Lessons from