2013 Workshop Stages
Showcase Stage, Dover Room,
Annapolis Room, Baltimore Room - Main Level
Main Stage, Wilmington Room
Brandywine Room - Lower Level
Final workshop
schedules will be posted at each workshop room, stage area, lobby, and in the
elevators.
Be sure to check
for any last minute changes or additions that may have occurred since
the printing of this Program Booklet
Scope: Workshops are structured to be
interactive ... attending with your tuned instrument is encouraged.
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Specialized
Workshops
Kids
Academy. Baltimore Room – Friday 6
PM and Saturday 10 AM
Information
Sharing for Festival Promoters. Main Stage - Saturday 10 AM - Jodi Fishbein (OATS
Bluegrass Festival). Interested
patrons are also welcome to attend – Saturday
Sunday Morning Yoga. Wilmington Room - Sunday
9 AM –- Sue Pappas, RYT
Music Theory 101 – Basics. Wilmington Room
- 1 PM Saturday. Sharon Charles, (Charles Piano Studio), will explain basic
essential music theory, and how the chromatic music scale relates directly to
all instruments. Saturday
Music
Theory 102 - Tunes of the Civil War.
Wilmington Room - Saturday and Sunday 10:30 AM.. Hilde Binford, PhD, (Moravian College),
Sue and John Pappas (Paxinosa Ridge). One hundred and fifty years after the
Civil War, many tunes remain popular today. Bring your instruments and voices
to the workshop as we remember the music of the Union and Confederate soldiers.
Our "set list" includes Battle Cry of Freedom, Dixie, Battle Hymn of
the Republic (John Brown's Body), Soldier's Joy, The Soldier's Dream, Arkansas
Traveler, Billy in the Low Grounds, Hell Broke Loose in Georgia, George Booker
(Camp Chase), Home Sweet Home, When Johnny Comes Marching Home...and more.
Intensive
Fiddle. Wilmington Room - Saturday 3:30
PM - with Kerry Craig.
Kerry will cover a range of topics in this more intensive and longer workshop
geared to accommodate participant’s questions and needs … for all levels.
Saturday
Wilmington Room - Sunday 1 PM to 3 PM David Poland and Associates (Music School of Delaware) will present an extended workshop on dynamics, developing tone…and more. With: Mark Unruh, Mandolin - picking styles, improvisation, and rhythm. Steve Lutke, Banjo - mastering the 5 string, tone and technique, the banjo in any style of music. Christopher Braddock, Guitar - Reading and playing chord progressions, tone and tech. Bluegrass and jazz in today's music for guitar. Jason Borisoff, Guitar - Picking leads in the BG context, rhythm and lead guitar and the acoustic guitar, how to get heard (stage sound) for the guitar, singin' and a pickin'. David Poland, Fiddle - Working with tone, dynamics, and the use of the bow in several styles of fiddle playing.
Instrument
Clinic. Annapolis Room – Saturday and
Sunday (see schedule for
times) with Dana Sutcliffe, Master Luthier, Dana Sound Research.
Dana will be available for questions
regarding repairs, set ups, strings, woods, frets, tools, electronics and
accessories related to all instruments. He will have examples of tools and
building materials related to the topics of discussions..
Injury Prevention for
Musicians. Annapolis Room – Saturday
and Sunday (see schedule
for times) with Kathy de Plaza N.D. Why Knot? Wellness & Massage, LLC in
West Grove, PA. Kathy will focus on the ability to maintain muscle health and
flexibility while playing your instrument until you drop! There will be a good bit of hands on work
during the workshop. She has been playing flatpick bluegrass guitar for
five years and has a good understanding of musician injuries.
Saturday, March 16
10:00 AM Information Sharing for Festival
Promoters. Main Stage -
Jodi Fishbein (OATS Bluegrass
Festival)
10:30 AM Music Theory 102 - Tunes of the Civil
War. Wilmington Room - Hilde Binford, PhD, (Moravian College),
Sue and John Pappas (Paxinosa Ridge).
11:30 AM Flatpick Guitar. Get Started Pickin’.
Dover Room – Ed
Schaeffer, (Rattlesnake Hill)
11:45 AM Fiddle. Annapolis Room – Rick Shryock (Boulevard Express)
NOON Clawhammer Banjo.
Wilmington Room - Ted
Kline (Loma and 4W5 Jams)
12:30 PM Rhythm Guitar. Dover Room - Linda and Bill Salmons (Home Cookin’)
12:45 PM Instrument Clinic. Annapolis Room – Dana Sutcliffe (Dana Sound Research)
1:00 PM Music Theory 101.
Wilmington Room - Sharon
Charles (Charles Piano Studio)
1:30 PM Clogging. Dover Room- Joyce Cullen
1:45 PM Yodel. Annapolis Room – Sandi Marola (Texas Rose)
2:30 PM Bass. Wilmington Room – Barb Diederich
(Rattlesnake Hill; D.C. Bluegrass Union)
2:30 PM Banjo – “Roberts Banjo”. Dover Room - Robert Mabe (Drymill
Road)
2:45 PM Injury Prevention for Musicians. Annapolis Room - Kathy DePlaza, ND
3:30 PM Intensive Fiddle. Dover
Room – Kerry Craig
3:45 PM Dobro. Annapolis Room – Joe Merlino
4:00 PM Mandolin. Wilmington Room – Travers Chandler (Travers
Chandler & Avery County)
Sunday, March 17
9:00 AM Sunday Morning Yoga. Wilmington Room - Sue Pappas, RYT
10:30 AM Music Theory 102 - Tunes of the Civil
War. Wilmington Room - Hilde Binford, PhD, (Moravian College),
Sue and John Pappas (Paxinosa Ridge)
NOON Clawhammer Banjo.
Wilmington Room - Ted
Kline (Loma & 4W5 Jams)
12:30 PM Flatpick Guitar - Get Started Pickin’. Dover Room – Scott Gantt, John Pappas & Kevin
Justice
12:45 PM Instrument Clinic. Annapolis Room – Dana Sutcliffe (Dana Sound Research)
1:00 PM Dynamics for All Instruments. Wilmington Room – David Poland & Associates
1:30 PM Clogging. Dover Room- Joyce Cullen
1:45 PM Dobro. Annapolis Room - Harry Gambrill (Boulevard Express)
2:30 PM Fiddle. Dover Room – Rick Shryock (Boulevard Express)
2:45 PM Injury Prevention for Musicians. Annapolis Room - Kathy DePlaza, ND
3:00 PM Rhythm Guitar. Wilmington Room – Linda and Bill Salmons (Home Cookin’)
4:00 PM
Flatpick Guitar and Bass.
Wilmington Room – Doug Trotter, Lance Trotter (Plexigrass)
4:00 PM Mandolin. Dover Room – Scott Eager (Plexigrass)