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 • Ukulele Kit Assembly
with Mike Leeworthy of Wolfelele
Build your own triangular soprano uke from a kit! Reserve a ukulele kit now for $70 and it will be waiting for you at the festival. Assemble it on Friday with expert help, then join the uke classes on Saturday and Sunday with Stuart Fuchs of Babik. Join in the Uke Jam at the Street Corner or the Jug Band.
Wolfelele ukuleles are unique in design, unparalleled in sound, and easy to build customize. Each kit contains: the neck, tuners, two sides, the bottom, the fingerboard, the bridge, two bridge screws, four fingerboard screws, strings, the top, and the back.
Interested? Call Old Songs to reserve your kit (518-765-2815) or send in an order blank by mail with your check or money order. Deadline for ordering is June 20, 2011 |
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• The Radio Ballads
and the Muse MacColl
with Jez Lowe
Jez presents his songs from the 2006 BBC Radio Ballads Series and salutes the original works by Ewan MacColl that inspired this ongoing social documentary project.
For more information on the Radio Ballads, both the original 1960s series and the 2006 series, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads. Includes sound files.
• Old-Time String Band Workshop
with the Freight Hoppers
Have an old-time music experience with one of the best bands in the genre! David Bass (fiddle) and Frank Lee (banjo) show how to make the melody sing, while the rhythm section of Isaac Deal on guitar and Bradley Adams on string bass demonstrate how to keep the groove moving. Participatory - bring your instruments.
• Three Irish Ballads
on Mountain Dulcimer
with Bing Futch
Learn three lovely Irish ballads while incorporating playing techniques such as slides, turnarounds, hammer-ons, pull-offs and vibrato to add expression! For intermediate to advanced players.
Bing's website: www.darkstudios.com
• Participatory
Swing Jam
with Dave Crump
We provide chord and melody charts in the 3 most popular versions: C for C instruments
such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, etc.; B flat for such instruments as clarinet,
tenor sax, etc.; E flat for alto sax, etc. Lyric sheets also provided. There
are approximately twenty standard tunes from the "swing era" (Gershwin,
Porter, Ellington, etc.) in each booklet. We start slowly with a vocal and repeat
it enough times untio folks get the hang of it, and everyone who wants to solo
has
a chance. Easy for any skill level to participate.
• Festival
Jug Band, Session
I
with Ron Gordon, Beth McLaughlin
and Elinor Ellis
Kids of all ages: come on by and
play some great old songs with the Festival Jug Band.
We will make and play washboards, kazoos, spoons, washtub
bass and any instruments brought to the Festival Jug
Band.
Session II on Saturday and Session III on Sunday. Times to be announced.
Main Stage performance, Sunday around noon. |
• Beginning Shape Note Singing
with Matt Wojcik
Matt will teach a few of the 4-part a cappella hymns from the classic 'Sacred Harp' collection. The idea behind shape notes is that the harmony parts of a song can be learned more quickly and easily if the music is printed in shapes that match up with the "do-re-mi" syllables of the musical scale. Learn how to sing the shapes first and then add the words.
• Choral
Harmony I
with Peter & Mary
Alice Amidon
Come for a feast of harmonies in
the Amidons’ choral singing workshop. Peter
and Mary Alice will be leading a cappella four-part
SATB arrangements of American secular and sacred
songs. The repertoire will include some of the Amidons'
own arrangements. Participants are encouraged to
come to all three of the Old Songs Amidon choral
singing workshops: we will be working on the same
songs throughout the three workshops, some of which
we will perform on the Main Stage Sunday afternoon.
Printed music is provided, along with permission
to share the music with your own local choruses
and choirs. This is a great workshop for choral
leaders looking for some fresh new repertoire.
It is also a great workshop for folks who simply
love to sing; Mary Alice's and Peter’s energy and warmth encourage
singers to feel relaxed while empowering groups
to create rich and soulful harmonies.
• Hammered Dulcimer
Tune Repertoire
with David and Cara Lindsey
David and Cara will team teach so that there can be two groups going on at the same time. One will be an absolute beginning workshop for those who need an introduction. They will learn basics along with a tune or two. The other will be jam tunes for all levels with embellishments. A few dulcimers will be available for loan. Those interested should make arrangements as early as possible at David's dulcimer booth on Friday of the festival.
•The
Great Groove Band
with Donna Hébert,
Max Cohen, Stuart Kenney, George Wilson & Jane
Rothfield
A dance band experience for young musicians (string, wind and percussion).
Begins Friday afternoon from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm and continues on Saturday
(9:00 am - 11:00) and Sunday (9:00 am - 10:30 am), with a Main Stage performance
Sunday at 12:30. MORE
DETAILS HERE. |
