For the first time in 30 years, Pete Wernick (Dr. Banjo) will not be hosting winter banjo camps in Boulder Colorado. Instead, he will offer a new kind of bluegrass camp focusing on ensemble playing and skills.
Due to Hot Rize’s intensive touring schedule in 2015, he will limit his teaching to four annual camps, in Boulder, Colorado; Santa Cruz, California; Merlefest in North Carolina; and on Lake George in New York.
The 2014 Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp with Mike Compton as director will be held September 4-7, 2014 at Camp Marymount, 1318 Fairview Blvd. in Nashville, TN.
In prior years the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY had hosted the only major camp dedicated solely to the mandolin styles of Bill Monroe.
Ross Nickerson provided this guest-blogger article on his recent Banjo Safari to Africa.
Hello Folks,
We’ve just returned from our second Banjo Safari and the trip was even better than the first. I wasn’t sure what it would be like returning for a second Safari. With the first time being special to me I almost didn’t want to mess with the memory.
In the past, the gathering has supported as many as 40 students through grants and donations.
Thanks to generous donations this year, the program will continue and 20 students will study autoharp, Americana, Singing and other folk instruments.
Summergrass San Diego announces a very special Bluegrass Music Kids Camp, which will take place August 16-17-18, 2013, during the Summergrass Bluegrass Music Festival at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA.
All Kids ages 6-16 are welcome.
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!! REGISTRATION CLOSES JULY 28, 2013
REGISTER BY JUNE 5, 2013 FOR A TUITION DISCOUNT
The California Bluegrass Association is about to launch a new program that will put reality to a ten-year dream.
At it’s November meeting, the CBA board voted unanimously to launch a pilot bluegrass Music Camp for Kids. The camp will be held next June at the Fathers Day Festival in Grass Valley.
Since offering the original “banjo camp” in 1984, Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick has conducted nearly a hundred of them, hosting over 1,500 students from around the world.
In January 2013 he will host his 29th annual winter camps at the Boulder Inn in Boulder, Colorado.
The camp consists of three “full-immersion” weeks: Basic Skills, Intermediate, and Advanced. Complete information is found on www.DrBanjo.com.
Bluegrass music will echo off the canyon walls when classes begin at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, May 16 for the third annual Bluegrass Camp at Ghost Ranch north of Sante Fe, New Mexico.
Two scholarships for Pete Wernick’s January 2012 Advanced Banjo Camp are still available, with an approaching December 5th application deadline.
One $1,000 scholarship covers almost all expenses for an out-of-state attendee and is being offered through the generosity of Stelling Banjos. The Advanced Camp runs January 16-21 in Boulder, Colorado.
