Forest Allen

1) Fiddle from Scratch: Because Everyone Starts Off Sounding Like a Dying Cat (x2)

Always wanted to play the fiddle but afraid you’ll sound like a rusty gate in a windstorm? Good news—that’s normal. In Fiddle from Scratch, we’ll take you from scratchy, slidy, slightly painful noises to something that might actually resemble music. We’ll cover the basics—how to hold it, bow it, and make it sound less like a barnyard brawl. No experience needed, just a willingness to embrace the chaos of learning the most stubborn instrument in the multiverse. Rosin up and let’s get scratchin’!

2) Campfire Classics: Intro to Fiddle Tunes

New to fiddling or just want to get the core tunes down? Campfire Classics covers must-know melodies you’ll hear at jams and kitchen sessions everywhere. We’ll keep it fun, clear, and 100% by ear—no music stands, just fiddles and focus. This is a progressive workshop—we’ll meet twice and pick up right where we left off, building your fiddle toolkit one tune at a time.

3) Strange Strings: Alternative Fiddle Tunings

Tired of standard tuning? In Strange Strings, we’ll retune the fiddle into something a little wilder, then learn a tune that lives in that tuning. It’s a great way to break habits and unlock new sounds. We’ll learn everything by ear—no sheet music, just deep listening and fun.

4) Deep Cuts: Lesser-Known Fiddle Gold

Sick of the same jam standards? Deep Cuts digs up an underrated tune that deserves more love—could be crooked, funky, or just plain cool. We’ll learn it all by ear, phrase by phrase, and you’ll walk away with a secret weapon for your next jam.

5) Burnin’ Rosin: Advanced Fiddle Tune Throwdown

Feeling spicy? In Burnin’ Rosin we’ll take on a tune that’ll push your speed, bow control, and brainpower. It might be crooked, syncopated, or just downright fast. We’ll learn it by ear and break it down into digestible pieces—no shame in slowing it way down.

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J.B. Barton 

1) Creative Rhythm for Guitar

It’s all about your right (rhythm) hand exploring cool grooves!

2) Flatpicking Guitar

How to hold it… how to apply it.

3) Harmony Singing

J.B. will work with each of you in the class & collectively.

4) Songwriting with J.B.

He’s got lots of ideas… do this!

5) Beginner Vocal Technique

The basics are important. Learn how to not harm your vocal chords or small animals.

6) Beginning Upright Bass Class 

If ya got one, bring it. We'll have one or two to share.

7) Jammies Slow Jam (Sunday & Tuesday Evenings 

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Greg Begin & Anna Joyce

1) Samba de Roda

Intro. to polyrhythmic percussion of Brazilian Samba, geared toward quieter or indoor settings. Instruments will include various drums, Afro-Brazilian bells known as agogó, shakers, and the fun of learning to hold your part as it interlocks with others,  Greg and Anna have both been playing Samba and other Afro-Brazilian percussion for over thirty years and have travelled extensively in Brazil.

2) Beginning Pandeiro

This class is an introduction to playing the pandeiro, a dynamic Brazilian drum that resembles the tambourine but is played quite differently. Its versatility enables it to cover all the percussion parts of samba with one handheld drum.

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Billy Buckman 

An intimate opportunity to present a song - as if in performance - and receive a critique and helpful suggestions. Limited to 4 students per session. Sign up sheet at the popcorn machine.

 

David Budries

1) Microphone Techniques for Live Performance  (x2)

This class will help to demonstrate the best ways to get the most out of your microphones, pickups, sound systems and monitors. I’ll give you some practical tips on effective ways of improving every element of your sound during performance.  

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Catfish Jack Chauvin

1) Beginning Harmonica (x2)

The ins and outs of breathing, bending notes, and bringing power and groove to your harp.

2) Using Scales to Improvise (x2)

Scales are your framework for melody and improvisation!

3) Catfish Jack’s Art of Jamming (All Instruments)

There’s nothing like the unity of playing well with others.

 

Barbee Corff

1) Your Performance Toolkit (x2) (Sunday and Tuesday)

Learn the tips and tricks to navigate nerves, find your own routine and customize a practice for being fully prepared and present on any stage.

2) Nurturing Your Vocal Identity ​​

Make a great song choice for your  unique and wonderful voice.

3) Fifteen Minutes with Barbee

Style, stage fright, your best song, moral support.

 

Hattie Craven

1) Singing with Soul

Learn how to embellish your voice with the feeling of the blues and other styles.   

2) Banjolele Tips and Tricks 

It's an ukulele that thinks it a banjo! Regular ukuleles welcome. 

3) Harmony Singing

Tarah and Hattie show you what stacks you need to know and the ins and outs of singing with others.

4) One-on-One Twenty-Minute Signup

Vocal and/or ukulele critique, plus music biz question & answers with Hattie. Use the sign-up sheet by the popcorn machine to guarantee a spot with Hattie.

 

PaJoe Craven

1) Songetry (x2)

Jumpstart a new song in ten minutes… finish it later.

2) Reimagine a Song or Tune 

Take a bluegrass song to Jamaica or fiddle tune to Cuba. Do you have something you'd like to see explored? Bring it!

3) Vocal Improv

The most portable, versatile, amazing musical instrument you’ll never buy. Explore what your voice is capable of in this fun, spirited and fast paced class. 

 

Gail Dreifus

1) Songwriting Using Tarot Cards

Get your creative brain unclogged and write a song using the magical means of a tarot deck.

2) From Start to Finish Write a Song in an Hour

We will begin with discussing song structure and finish with a completed project.

3) Writing From Your Roots

Before social media there were ballads to tell your story! Bring a piece of your ancestry to this class and write your narrative.

4) Collaborate and Co-Write

We will get together and write a song in partnership. This is a great way to expand your songwriting craft.

5) Song Salon

Song Salon is an opportunity for you to present your works-in-progress to the group and get feedback, ideas and encouragement. Bring us your tired, your weak, your half-written, yearning to be finished. Come ready to share, give feedback, and be supportive and respectful.

 

Michael Gutin

1) Learn to Play A Keyboard Accordion (3 Progressive Sessions)

This is a progressive workshop - beginning on Sunday afternoon and ending on Tuesday morning. Michael will teach you "from scratch" how to play the right and left hand sides of the accordion. We will also learn to sing and play at the same with a couple of songs by the end of camp. Six small student accordions are provided, or students can provide their own.

2) Beyond Beginning Accordion (x2)

For students that play beyond beginning level. Bring your own accordion!

3) Michael’s Irish Session

Open to all instruments, music handouts provided.

4) Jammies Slow Jam (Monday evening)

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Ben James

1) Ben’s Singer-Songwriter Circle (x3)

Share your original songs, finished or not.

 

Manny Kaminer

Manny is offering a new progressive four-part series with the following classes.

You don’t have to take all of the classes, but all four in this order are beneficial.

1) Ear Training

Using solfege to find the melody and then transfer that to your instrument.

2) Exploring the Pentatonic Scale

On your instrument.

3) Build a Bluegrass Break

Using the melody and the pentatonic scale.

4) Put It All Together

In an open bluegrass jam setting.

 

Michelle Kiba

1) Beginning Ukelele

All the basics to get you going: tuning, strums, chords, some kicks and licks!

 

Amanda Malachesky

1) Beginner Mandolin Progressive (3 Classes Total)

We will cover moveable chord shapes, rhythm, scales, picking techniques and tremolo. Start from the beginning, and develop your basic toolbox for playing mandolin!

2) Moveable Jazz/Swing Chords for Mandolin 

In this intermediate level mandolin class, learn moveable shapes for major 6, major 7, minor 7, dominant (7), and diminished chords on your mandolin that you can use to play jazz and swing tunes in any key. We’ll learn to play a swing tune together to practice what we learned. Anyone learning mandolin is welcome, but you will get more out of the class if you already know your chop chords and minor chords and can easily change between them.

3) Intermediate Mandolin 

If you are comfortable changing chords at tempo, can play melodies, and are ready to take the next steps, this class is for you. We’re going to discuss playing melodies and scales in “closed positions”, arpeggios, the pentatonic scale, and how to use these concepts to work on improvising.

4) Learning Tunes by Ear (All Instruments)

How do you learn a tune or song if you don’t have a chart or sheet music? Learn Amanda’s 7-Step Method for identifying song structure, rhythm and time signature, chords, melody, and more.

5) How to Practice to Improve Your Musicianship (x2) (All Instruments)

How do we become better players? Is it magic? No, we practice! But how do you practice to achieve your musicianship goals? In this session, we’re going to talk about ways to deepen your practice with your instrument by using practice techniques to work on rhythm, tone, and melody. Bring your instrument!

 

Sheridan Malone

1) Morning Stretch Warmup for Body and Voice

A great way to start your day for body, voice and mind.

2) Double Stops for Ukulele and Guitar (x2) (Intermediate) (Boneyard)

Learn some fun harmonic string pairs for song leads licks and fills. We’ll learn simple shapes out of common chords and see how to play with them. 

3) “Sounds of Music”: Theory Basics on Strings and Voice (x2)

We’ll focus on the sonic relationship of notes in the melodies and chords in the songs we love to play and sing. All instruments and levels are welcome. 

4) Let Your Voice Be Heard (x4) 

Sign-ups for three to four people for one-on-one vocal troubleshooting with Sheridan the Voice Whisperer. We'll spend time singing and listening to each other sing, while learning more about our core sounds and how to expand them without strain.

5) No Lookie Ukulele (x2) (Intermediate and Up)

Get a feel for where you are on the fretboard. Left hand techniques for a better sense of location on scales, chord, and fingering without "death gripping". We'll also refinger common chords into “closed” moveable chords for key changing without a capo, and try a song with some modulations. 

 

BanjerDan Mazer

1) 3-Finger Banjo Technique (All Levels)

Playing the banjo is easier than it looks! From basic picking to modern techniques.

2) G-Tuned Slide Guitar and Dobro

Learn the basics of the guitar tuned to Open G, which is pretty much the same as the Dobro tuning. Bring either or both!

3) Music Theory: Analyzing a Tom Lehrer Song

Let's celebrate some great songwriting, and learn the songs as written.

4) Music Theory: Breaking Down a Jazz Chart

Standard jazz charts look similar to chord charts we folk musicians might use, but there are some key differences. In this class, we'll look at a couple of charts from The Read Book, and learn the tunes!

5) Music Theory: Learning a Fiddle Tune from Written Music

A lot of folk musicians are intimidated at the thought of reading music, but it's a very useful skill. Written music is actually based on a simple graph. In this class, I'll explain the basics of how music is written, and then we'll choose a selection from The Fiddler's Fakebook that none of us has ever heard, and we'll learn it!

 

Greg McDonald

1) Learn the Spooky Swing Classic “Topsy” in C minor

This song was most likely the inspiration for Stray Cat Strut.  Rhythm and expanding your cord progression vocabulary will be discussed.  We will also show you some soloing ideas over the minor blues/A part of the tune.

2) Shred Arpeggios over Minor Swing

We will learn the tune and apply arpeggios to give you a strong foundation and expand on what you may already know from previous arpeggios classes.

3) Learn Gypsy Bossa Rhythm

We will learn a few of the gypsy bossa classics, for example, Bossa Dorado, For Sephora and Made for Wessley. Chord charts will be provided.

4) Expand Your Knowledge of Arpeggios over Minor Swing

We will move up the neck with some exciting new positions to help you shred over this timeless tune.

 

Jesi Naomi 

1) Intimate Improv 

Subtle posture shifts of your body can empower a note or key you wish to express. We will sing a couple of songs from the soul, use grounding techniques to embody amusement while singing. Let's move! It’s not quite dance or yoga but expect feeling stretched and refreshed upon departure. In this class, intimacy means ‘into-me-you-see’.

2) Vocal Modus 

Elevate your sound through the four elements: Fire/Generators, Air/Vibrators, Water/Resonators, and Earth/Articulators. Let the voice be the modus (or way) to motivate any space you’re in. We will move, then circle up and sing! A little technique and a lot of play—rhythmic vocal impressions and body percussion with tonal exploration. 

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Brian Rivers

1) Improvisation as Relaxation (Boneyard)

Open to all, this is an absolute don’t miss experience designed to help you relax and learn to play freely.

2) Shell Voicings and 3-String Chord Voicings for the Guitar  (Part 1)

This is a progressive workshop to help guitar players find new ways to play chords.

3) Shell Voicings and 3-String Chord Voicings for the Guitar   (Part 2)

This is part 2 of a progressive workshop to help guitar players find new ways to play chords.

4) Strumming Workshop

Open to all, this workshop will focus on techniques and patterns to bring your strumming to a new level.

5) Songwriter’s Workshop for Your Instrument 

Learn new Instrument techniques to improve your song and lyric writing.

6) Maximizing Your Practice

Open to all, this workshop gives you strategies and techniques to fast-track your musical practice routine.

 

Tarah Williams

1) The World is Your Snare Drum: A Soundscape Painting Workshop (x2)

Discover how the world around you can become your snare drum using just jazz brushes and a little creativity. Everyday objects like pizza boxes, paper plates, and magazines transform into instruments of rhythm and sound. I’ll have some boxes and a few extra brushes to share, but if you can please BYOBB (Bring Your Own Box and Brushes) and let your surroundings inspire you to create a vibrant soundscape!

2) Stomping Grounds: The Joy of Flatfooting (x2)

Come tip-tap, stomp and slap your way into the heart of Appalachian percussive dance, also known as buck dancing, clogging or simply "fixing to make a ruckus in the barn." We’ll let our flat feet follow the fiddle’s lively tune—guaranteed to get your body moving and your spirit lifted! Leather-soled shoes are ideal, but we’ll make magic with whatever’s on your feet! 

3) Harmony Singing

Tarah and Hattie show you what stacks you need to know and the ins and outs of singing with others.