CORONAVIRUS update:
Our in-person classes and lessons are cancelled, but if you are interested in lessons on Zoom, please send us an email! Eric is available for guitar and mandolin lessons; Suzy teaches fiddle. In addition, Suzy is teaching an ongoing Fiddles At Four class on Zoom, at 4 pm Pacific time, on Mon, Wed. and Fri. It's a half-hour long. On Monday and Wednesday, she teaches a new tune on Mon and Weds (usually a simpler, though not necessarily easier, tune on Monday and a more elaborate tune on Wednesday) and Friday is a jam. Email Suzy if you are interested and she'll send you the link.
Suzy also teaches a String Band Blues Workshop; she will start an online version in September 2020.
About Suzy's String Band Blues Workshop:
We’ll learn and arrange vocal songs and a few instrumentals, with the repertoire drawn from the jug band, black country blues and hillbilly blues artists of the 1920’s and 1930s, like the Memphis Jug Band, the Mississippi Sheiks, Bessie Smith, East Texas Serenaders, and lesser known (but equally wonderful) artists. We work directly from the source material, (provided in advance, along with lyric sheets.) Suzy chooses the material based on the instruments in the class, and will consider all requests, either for specific songs or artists. This music is a lot of fun to play as a group, and there’s almost no limit to the number of musicians that can play it together!
Any instrument is welcome - guitar, fiddle, ukulele, mandolin, bass, harmonica, etc. at an intermediate-ish level. You should have some facility on your instrument - be able to change chords easily (if you play a chord instrument) and be open to learning by ear. Advanced beginners who are game to try something new, or want to explore the world of blues and rags on the fiddle or mandolin, are also welcome. Suzy will adapt the material according to the levels of the players. We do a lot of singing so if you don’t play an instrument but want to join the class, bring your kazoo!
Summer 2020 - CAMPS
All of the camps that one or the other (or both) of us were going to be teaching at are CANCELLED due to Coronavirus. The good news is that in 2021, we will be at all of those camps, which include Kamp Kaufman, Montana Fiddle Camp, Fiddlekids, Voice Works, Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Week and Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.
Our in-person classes and lessons are cancelled, but if you are interested in lessons on Zoom, please send us an email! Eric is available for guitar and mandolin lessons; Suzy teaches fiddle. In addition, Suzy is teaching an ongoing Fiddles At Four class on Zoom, at 4 pm Pacific time, on Mon, Wed. and Fri. It's a half-hour long. On Monday and Wednesday, she teaches a new tune on Mon and Weds (usually a simpler, though not necessarily easier, tune on Monday and a more elaborate tune on Wednesday) and Friday is a jam. Email Suzy if you are interested and she'll send you the link.
Suzy also teaches a String Band Blues Workshop; she will start an online version in September 2020.
About Suzy's String Band Blues Workshop:
We’ll learn and arrange vocal songs and a few instrumentals, with the repertoire drawn from the jug band, black country blues and hillbilly blues artists of the 1920’s and 1930s, like the Memphis Jug Band, the Mississippi Sheiks, Bessie Smith, East Texas Serenaders, and lesser known (but equally wonderful) artists. We work directly from the source material, (provided in advance, along with lyric sheets.) Suzy chooses the material based on the instruments in the class, and will consider all requests, either for specific songs or artists. This music is a lot of fun to play as a group, and there’s almost no limit to the number of musicians that can play it together!
Any instrument is welcome - guitar, fiddle, ukulele, mandolin, bass, harmonica, etc. at an intermediate-ish level. You should have some facility on your instrument - be able to change chords easily (if you play a chord instrument) and be open to learning by ear. Advanced beginners who are game to try something new, or want to explore the world of blues and rags on the fiddle or mandolin, are also welcome. Suzy will adapt the material according to the levels of the players. We do a lot of singing so if you don’t play an instrument but want to join the class, bring your kazoo!
Summer 2020 - CAMPS
All of the camps that one or the other (or both) of us were going to be teaching at are CANCELLED due to Coronavirus. The good news is that in 2021, we will be at all of those camps, which include Kamp Kaufman, Montana Fiddle Camp, Fiddlekids, Voice Works, Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Week and Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.