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 on Mon, Wed. and Fri. It's a half-hour long and she teaches a new fiddle tune in GDGD (cross G) tuning each time. These are great to play all by yourself! Email Suzy if you are interested and she'll send you the link..
Summer 2020 - CAMPS
Some 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, in 2021, we'll be at 3 of Centrum's music weeks: Voiceworks, Fiddle Tunes, and Port Townsend Acoustic Blue Workshop. We don't know yet if the other camps below will be held as scheduled.
June 14-20 -- Eric at Kamp Kaufman, Marysville TN. Old Time and Traditional Week.
June 15-19 -- Suzy at Montana Fiddle Camp, Monarch MT
July 13-18 -- Suzy at Fiddlekids, Berkeley CA
Aug. 15-21 -- Suzy at Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Port Orchard WA
For info on private lessons or String Band Blues workshop, email us. Next String Band Blues workshop will be on Monday nights from 7:30 to 9, dates are Aug. 12, 19, 25 and Sept 2, 9 and 16. We may not end up having class on Labor Day (Sept. 2). Email us for more info about this.
About the 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!
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 on Mon, Wed. and Fri. It's a half-hour long and she teaches a new fiddle tune in GDGD (cross G) tuning each time. These are great to play all by yourself! Email Suzy if you are interested and she'll send you the link..
Summer 2020 - CAMPS
Some 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, in 2021, we'll be at 3 of Centrum's music weeks: Voiceworks, Fiddle Tunes, and Port Townsend Acoustic Blue Workshop. We don't know yet if the other camps below will be held as scheduled.
June 14-20 -- Eric at Kamp Kaufman, Marysville TN. Old Time and Traditional Week.
June 15-19 -- Suzy at Montana Fiddle Camp, Monarch MT
July 13-18 -- Suzy at Fiddlekids, Berkeley CA
Aug. 15-21 -- Suzy at Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Port Orchard WA
For info on private lessons or String Band Blues workshop, email us. Next String Band Blues workshop will be on Monday nights from 7:30 to 9, dates are Aug. 12, 19, 25 and Sept 2, 9 and 16. We may not end up having class on Labor Day (Sept. 2). Email us for more info about this.
About the 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!