A workshop including both old-time and bluegrass tunes and techniques, looking at style, bowings and ornamentation. This workshop can be tailored to players at any level of experience.
This workshop focuses on accompaniment techniques for the fiddle including standard bowing patterns and rhythms, cross rhythms, chord construction and harmony development.
Songs and Strings! Playing Fiddle While Singing:
A technique becoming more and more popular among folk performers, this workshop examines beginning techniques for playing fiddle and singing, from basic melody doubling to single line accompaniment and simple chords.
This workshop is for any instrumentation and focuses on developing interesting arrangements for both tunes and songs, working in groups or individually, as well as discussion toward development of personal style.