2012 Festival Events – Workshops
- 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!
- Basic Jimmy Rodgers-style Yodeling Workshop - Nothing warms the heart (or frightens small animals) quite like a well-placed yodel! This unique vocalization was an important part of country music for many years and still generates considerable
- Blues Harmonica 101 with Brandon Bailey - 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.
- Bodhrán Workshop with Dean Karres - The Bodhrán is a simple frame-drum, a skin stretched over a wooden hoop, that is played with one or more beaters or bare-handed. Most cultures develop frame-drums and there are
- Cajun Fiddle Workshop with Gina Forsyth - Do you play the fiddle? Or would like to? Is that Cajun song that you heard at the dance something you’d love to play it too? At Gina Forsyth’s workshop,
- Dulcimer Workshop – Mike Anderson - 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
- Fiddle Tunes for Guitar Workshop with Robbie Fulks - Turn the tables on those fiddle tunes and make them sing on the guitar! Robbie Fulks will show you the way.
- Finger Picking and More – Workshop with Blind Boy Paxton - 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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- Guitar From Scratch with Rob Krumm - 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
- Harmonica Workshop - It’s easy to begin to learn to play harmonica! Let Dave Witzany (left) and Doug Schroer (right) introduce you to the fundamentals of playing this fun and inexpensive instrument. The first
- Interpreting and Arranging Old Songs with Red Tail Ring - 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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- Irish Music for Beginners - Jay and Pat Landers (Donnybrook) have played traditional Irish music since 1983. Their Intro to Irish Music will include demonstrations on the piano accordion, tin whistle and bodhran drum, and
- Irish Set and Ceili Dancing - Come learn the basics of Irish Ceili and Set dancing, regarded as the equivalent of contra and square dancing in America. This energetic style of Irish uses sets and figures
- Songs of Hank Williams Workshop - Country music’s greatest songwriter and performer was also a complex and enigmatic soul, as reflected in his impressive catalog of compositions and recordings. Found dead in his Cadillac in West
- Stomp and Scrape! Family Percussion Workshop - 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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- Swing It! With Silver Rose - 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
- Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra’s Creative Process - Inspiration and Collaboration: A Look at The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra’s Creative Process
- Traditional Square Dance Calling with T-Claw - Throughout the workshop we will discuss and practice everything related to calling traditional Appalachian square dances that time allows for. Topics to be discussed and practiced: American folk dance history,
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