Skill level for Claw-hammer style
5-string banjo:

All students should be aged 12 to adult.

All skill levels welcome: beginners and experienced players.

Take part in guided or independent
jam sessions!

Our curriculum includes:
  • basic “clawhammer” or “frailing” technique
  • old-time dance tune repertoire
  • playing with fiddlers
  • more advanced techniques, including drop-thumbing, 5th string fretting, and melodic style.
Guitar players can join in the fun in various ways:

Learn to play or develop skill you already have!

Guitar-only groups for instruction!

Jamming--guided jams and independent jams!

You could join
Rock Band activities in the afternoon!

We will present intensive guitar workshops
in a number of different styles, designed around
campers’ musical interests.
  • Learn accompaniment patterns in various styles
  • Fingerpicking patterns
  • Flat-picking, bluegrass
  • Blues, Jazz, and Swing styles
  • Improvisation

Skill level for beginning "Guitar Ground Zero":
This is offered for adults only.  You don't have to know anything, but should bring your own guitar.  
We'll get you ready to play at least one tune with a fiddle player by the end of the week!

Skill level for continung Guitar:
Level 1: advanced beginner (know a few chords, able to keep a steady rhythm)
Level 2: intermediate-to-advanced (be able to play smoothly with other musicians in some style)
Level 3: Flatpicking & advanced techniques