Participants will learn an easy Willie Nelson tune played with a western swing style. We'll study two-step syncopation. We'll use diminished, 6th, and 7th chords, and closed chord-shapes.
Learn how to use the stage equipment, mics, monitors, to your best advantage as a performer.
Insights on the origins, development, and legacy of Western swing music.
Bring the kids and the wiggles!
Teach your muscle memory to play chords and chord patterns same way as you learned to play melodies. Stop thinking! Feel the chord changes and move chord patterns automatically on all four strings. Fiddle Chord fingerboard diagram handout.
Rhiannon and Dirk have written countless songs together, including “We Could Fly,” which has become a successful children’s book, and the Grammy-nominated “Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad.” Some of the songs which are most informed by tradition have gone on to become part of tradition themselves over time. This workshop will find them sharing original songs and delving into ways for songwriters to open to that process.
With cool floor movements and designed for fun, these squares get you moving and keep you connected. No lackluster figures in these dances - they'll keep you on your toes!
Guest Dance Band fiddle player Katie Shore teaches Western Swing fiddle.
We'll be focusing on bigger tone, better intonation on bent notes, and more fluid improvising over a 12 bar blues form. You'll need a key of A diatonic harmonica.
More crooked tunes to talk about and dazzle your friends. This year we will pick from old time ‘C’ and ‘G’.
Mostly waltz with some polka and swing. An opportunity to dance with experienced dancers to beautiful music.
Guest Dance Band guitarists discuss, demonstrate, and teach the complimentary parts of lead and rhythm guitars.
Guest Dance Band drummer Lisa Pankratz teaches Western Swing percussion techniques.
Guest Dance Band steel guitarist teaches Western Swing steel guitar techniques.
Enjoy some dances and exquisite tunes from this traditional English folk dancing. Geared for all levels, including motivated children ages 8 and up. The workshop features live music.
Rhiannon will share tunes and stories from her mentor and teacher Joe Thompson, who was central to the African American tradition in her home state of North Carolina, and delve into her deep knowledge of the evolution of the music, including thoughts on the history of the banjo. Open to all instruments and singers.
Bring the whole family aged zero-100 for a called family dance with a live band.
Are your instruments making too little noise? Got your eye on something real nice? Meet, greet, and trade instruments with your fellow festivalgoers! 3-6 pm.
Writing songs with a prompt, ways to get started and unstuck, and how to come away from a songwriting session with all or most of a song.
Learn a few old time fiddle trade secrets and a new tune to boot. Focus is on bowing but I'll cover a lot of fiddling ground.
Come try your hand at playing these super fun and friendly instruments. No experience necessary. This workshop is always overfilled - so come early. We'll get in as many people as we can!
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