Northeast Heritage Music Camp

We are delighted to announce Northeast Heritage Music Camp for 2010. Come join us in June for a week of traditional music instruction by world class players, dance to their music at our nightly contras, hear them in concert, and — if you’re so inclined — jam with them or fellow tunes-aficionados into the wee hours.

Here’s our details:
 
Dates: June 13-19, 2010
Place: Johnson State College; Johnson, Vermont
Information: http://www.northeastheritagemusiccamp.com

Program: Our policy is to offer lots of levels and options. There are now four levels of fiddle offered: novice, lower intermediate, upper intermediate, and advanced. We offer multiple levels of banjo, flute, and piano. You can take a bunch of guitar classes, a whole day of singing classes, or a whole day of band classes, You can also study stepdancing, dance calling, accordion, mandolin, piping repertoire, French & Italian repertoire, harmonizing, song-writing, and improvization. If you want to check out exactly what we have in mind, our 2010 preliminary schedule is now up on the website, at http://www.northeastheritagemusiccamp.com

Here’s our great staff (see our website for bios and photos): 

Irish Fiddle – Seamus Connolly
Appalachian Fiddle – Alan Jabbour
Québecois Fiddle – Eric Favreau
Cape Breton Fiddle – Kimberley Fraser
Song-Writing, Playing Fiddle in a Band, Southern String Band – Pete Sutherland
Flute, Whistle – Grey Larsen
Guitar, English, Breton, & Italian Folk Tunes – David Surette
Fingerstyle Guitar, New England Folksongs, Harmonizing – Cindy Kallet
Contra-dance Caller, Swedish fiddle, Contra-Dance Band – David Kaynor
Piano Accordion, Piano – Jeremiah McLane
Novice Fiddle, Intro to Banjo – Sarah Hotchkiss
French Canadian Step-Dancing – Alice Berube
Highland Bagpipes – Tim Cummings
Clawhammer Banjo – Ken Perlman
Mandolin, Early Country Songs – Peter Langston

Cheers
Ken Perlman and Peter Langston,
Directors