©2010
WUMB RADIO
SAMW
|
| SAMW Class Week #1 July 18-24, 2010 |
 | John Doerschuk
Sound Reinforcement
John Doerschuk has been in the sound business for over 25 years. He was attracted to waves and electrons while playing in bands in the seventies, and somehow continues to make a living as an "audio guy." He lives with his artist wife Bessie and daughter Sophie in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John plays piano and guitar and is trying to tame a Dobro. |
 | Cliff Eberhardt
Melodic Songwriting
Guitar for Songwriters
Cliff Eberhardt knew by age seven that he was going to be a singer and songwriter. Growing up in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, he and his brothers sang together and their parents played instruments. His dad introduced him to the guitar and he quickly taught himself to play. Fortunate enough to live close to the Main Point (one of the best folk clubs on the East Coast), he cut his teeth listening to the likes of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, and Mississippi John Hurt receiving an early and impressive tutorial in acoustic music. At the same time, he was also listening to great pop songwriters like Cole Porter, the Gershwins, and Rodgers and Hart, which explain his penchant for great melodies and clever lyrical twists. Long one of the most respected songwriters on the club scene, his peers often mine his catalog for themselves. Cliff's song "Memphis" was included on Cry Cry Cry, an album of collaborative covers by the "folk supergroup" of the same name. Other performers who have recorded his songs include Richie Havens, Shawn Colvin, Russ Taff and Buffy Sainte Marie. A collection of his songs has recently been published in The Cliff Eberhardt Songbook. |
 | Danny Gotham
Fingerstyle Guitar
Flatpicking Guitar
Just as he was graduating high school, a friend turned Danny Gotham on to John Hartford and Mississippi John Hurt. It’s also when he bought his first Gibson. Several years later he began playing mandolin with a Bluegrass band, but couldn’t find enough work to earn a living and became disenchanted with the music business. After getting his BA, he moved to Chapel Hill to pursue an MA where his thesis was an audiodocumentary on Hurt, where he had the chance to interview Pete Seeger. After college, he began teaching and has never stopped.
|
 | Martin Grosswendt
Delta Blues Guitar (Intermediate)
East Coast Blues (Advanced)
Martin Grosswendt, once described by U. Utah Phillips as "a rumor in his own time," has been a performer, session musician, and teacher for more than three decades. As a more recent writer has said, "While his name is not a household word, among musicians and fans of country, blues and folk, he is sort of an underground legend, a musician of extraordinary talent." A multi-instrumentalist and singer long known as an interpreter of '20s and '30s blues, Martin is equally at home playing the old-time music of the Southern Appalachians or the Cajun and Creole music of Southwest Louisiana. He plays six- and twelve-string guitar, five-string banjo, mandolin, fiddle, bass, Cajun accordion, and Dobro. Martin is music teaches at and is co-director of Banjo Camp North and Old Time Music Camp North, and has performed and taught at numerous festivals. |
 | Trina Hamlin
Beginners Harmonica
Advanced Harmonica
Trina Hamlin, a New York City based singer/songwriter, is widely regarded as one of the most engaging performers on the acoustic circuit today. She has toured the US and abroad for the past 10 years becoming accomplished on guitar as well as piano while delivering powerful vocal performances in blues tinged folk rock tunes as well as sensitive ballads. Trina is most often identified, however, by her masterful harmonica playing which is an element of her artistry that sets her apart from contemporaries. With a style all her own, Trina’s command of harmonica has left countless audiences wanting more at the end of her shows, and has drawn attention and curiosity to this often understated instrument. Her well honed songwriting and performing craft in addition to being a multitalented instrumentalist has caught the attention of not only the elite concert presenters in acoustic music but also that of several well known artists such as Susan Werner, Vance Gilbert, Vicki Genfan, Natalia Zukerman among others who have invited her to sit-in, tour and record as a side player and singer. Trina’s affectionate, playful personality both on and off stage have earned her the reputation of a well loved and respected musical force among her colleagues. |
 | Bennett Hammond
Beginning Guitar
Fill in the Cracks for Guitar
Bennett Hammond began to play traditional and original music on the guitar in high school in Vermont, and began teaching it while in college in New Hampshire. With a degree in Classical Greek, Bennett also speaks French and Spanish. "Hammond has a deft melodic sense, and a knack for transmuting traditional Irish and Appalachian motifs into thoroughly contemporary results. Hammond's great talent is that he doesn't let his skill overpower his taste and artistry." Boston Globe. Since 1986 Bennett has performed, recorded and toured extensively at home and abroad with Lorraine. The couple lives in an old house in Brookline, Massachusetts. |
 | Lorraine Hammond
Morning Song
Mountain Dulcimer
Lorraine Hammond was born and raised in the mountains of Northwestern Connecticut when traditional music was still a normal part of community life. With a degree in Music and Education from Goddard College, she is well known as a folk singer and songwriter, an accomplished player and teacher of the Celtic harp and the 5-string banjo, and as perhaps the foremost exponent of the Appalachian dulcimer. Lorraine teaches locally at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education where she also produces an annual spring dulcimer festival. She is a regularly featured teacher and performer at venues around the country including The John C Campbell Folk School, and The Mountain Collegium of Early Music, both in North Carolina, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in the state of Washington, Augusta Heritage Program in West Virginia, and Summer Acoustic Music Week in New Hampshire. |
 | Carl Jones
Advanced Mandolin
Dance Band
Vocal Harmony (includes Bevery Smith)
Carl Jones has been playing music since he started playing guitar in the 1960s. He moved into the Bluegrass world in the 70s, but was swept into the old time fiddle world after hearing James Bryan fiddle with Norman and Nancy Blake. He later toured as a member of the Rising Fawn String Ensemble playing mandolin and fiddle. Carl stills plays with James Bryan when the opportunity arises, and is sometimes found pickin' as a trio with Bruce Green and Don Pedi. Carl has been an instructor at SAMW for the past two years and has also taught at Port Townsend's Fiddle Tunes Camp, the Swannanoa Gathering, Pinewoods and Mars Hill Old Time weeks. Carl is also a songsmith. His songs have been recorded by the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Rickie Simpkins and others. |
 | Ben Pearce
Mandolin Primer
Beginning Flatpicking Guitar
Beginning his mandolin career in the Carolinas and making his way up to New England via Washington D.C. Ben Pearce has played bluegrass mandolin all over the east coast. Currently playing with Rhode Island's Pegheads and touring with Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters, Ben is also the sole proprieter of the Outlier Workshop, where he toils day and night to create some of the best mandolins and flattop guitars available today. Don't let his youthful appearance fool you! He knows a hugh variety of tunes, songs and mandolin styles as a result of his careful study of many of the first and second generation mandolin giants, as well as contemporary players. |
 | Beverly Smith
Fiddle
Vocal Harmony (includes Carl Jones)
Beverly first heard the old-time sound of the Carter Family and the New Lost City Ramblers while in her early teens and has been devoted to learning and playing it ever since. An accomplished guitar player, fiddler and caller, she is best known for her long association as a member of the Heartbeat Rhythm Quartet. With the Heartbeats, Beverly's lovely songs and strong playing have taken her all around the U.S. and Europe, playing live television and radio shows such as Mountain Stage, Voice of America, E-Town, and A Prairie Home Companion and opening for Mary Chapin Carpenter and 10,000 Maniacs. She has taught at music camps and has performed at most major folk festivals across the US and Canada. She has recently been recording with John Doyle, Brad Leftwich, Laurie Lewis, Martin Hayes and Mick Moloney. She has also performed extensively with Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown as well as the Freighthoppers |  |
Charles Williams
Vocal/Vocal Health
This Louisiana-born artist has performed in theatres and opera houses and for radio and television in several European cities and around the world. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess. and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Barns at Wolftrap, the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center. He continues his solo career as well as performing with World Beat along with percussionist/composer Tom Teasley. They have released their first CD, Poetry, Prose, Percussion and Song. His solo CD on CRI records features spirituals and selections from American musical theatre. He is on the voice faculty and is director of musical theatre at the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, where he is also an artist-in-residence. For a decade or more, he was vocal consultant for Sweet Honey in the Rock. |
 |
Jack Williams
Songwriting
Guitar: Playing Music You Hear in Your Head
Jack Williams began his musical journey at 4, playing his mother's Arthur Godfrey ukulele, and learning to play the piano, trumpet, and guitar, absorbing big band, pop, jazz, show tunes, and classical music he heard on his parents' 78 rpm records. His current music is strongly influenced by an early career in jazz, classical, rock and roll, blues, R&B and folk. A musician for 62 years and a professional touring artist for 51 years, Jack is a singer/ songwriter/ guitarist/ storyteller whose songs display a strong sense of place, many of them grounded in - or inspired by - his South Carolina roots. His songs have been recorded by artists ranging from Cindy Mangsen and Chuck Pyle to Tom Jones. His virtuosic guitar-playing and finger-style accompaniment to songs follow no stylistic models but spring directly from his own personality and musical history. Finding his place within the U.S. Folk Community some 20 years ago, he has performed and taught at festivals such as Newport, Kerrville, Philadelphia, SummerFest and Boston, as well as in music halls, city arts centers, coffeehouses and hundreds of house concerts across his circuit of 48 states and 8 countries. He currently has eight albums and a DVD on Wind River Records. His workshops are creative and inspiring, and his performances are joyously reckless - music from a poet’s heart and a virtuoso’s hands. |
|
