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| SAMW Class Week #2 August 22-28, 2010
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Kate Campbell
Songwriting One
Advanced Songwriting
Something of a late-bloomer, singer/songwriter Kate Campbell didn't begin her professional career until the age of 30. But in short order she managed to include the likes of Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, as Buddy Miller as both admirers and collaborators in her distinctly literate musical vision. Since making her recording debut in 1995 with Songs From The Levee, Campbell has since put together a body of work marked by consistency, artistry and honest self-examination and self-revelation. Kate's Moonpie Dreams (1997) and Visions of Plenty (1998) each garnered "Folk Album of the Year" nominations from the Nashville Music Awards. Kate is the daughter of a Baptist preacher from Sledge, Mississippi. Her formative years were spent in the very core of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and the indelible experiences of those years have shaped her heart, character, and convictions ever since. As a child of the South, her musical tastes were forged in the dampened, smoky fires of soul, R&B, Southern rock and folk music. She has continued to explore these musical roots first on the gospel CD Wandering Strange then on the country women tribute recording Twang On A Wire and the original Monuments. In the Fall of 2005, Blues and Lamentations on her own label, Large River.
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Mark Cosgrove
Beginning Flatpicking
Intermediate Flatpicking
Mark Cosgrove's distinctive, creative flatpicking guitar sound is known and respected on both sides of the Atlantic, through both his own recordings and as a sideman and session player for Jerry Douglas and others. He grew up in a Manhattan apartment surrounded by classical records, and his original music ambition was to become a drummer. He was also immersed in bluegrass and fiddle tunes from an early age. He has continued to make acoustic music his life's work and pleasure. Mark Cosgrove has won the U.S. National Flatpicking Guitar Championship in Winfield, Kansas and also the Doc Watson Guitar Championship in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. His flatpick guitar work is notable not only for power, precision, and tone, but for his fluid high-speed improvisation. Mark is equally proficient in any number of musical styles and as an accompanist, can back a singer or soloist with taste and sensitivity. Mark has a number of CDs including Sweet Reason, Round Island and Good Medicine. He also has a Mel Bay Instructional book Hot Solos for Flatpick Guitarists: Book/CD set.
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 | 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. |
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Bob Franke
Songwriting One
Songwriting Two
Bob is a long-time New England-based songwriter and singer. Originally from Detroit, Bob has performed in 34 states, four Canadian provinces and England. His songs have been recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Kathy Mattea, June Tabor, Tony Rice, John McCutcheon, and many others. He has written extended works for historical projects, the church, and a ballet (The Velveteen Rabbit, ODC Dance Company of San Francisco). His concerts have appeared on the lists of the top five musical events chosen by critics in the Boston and San Francisco Bay areas. He was named in 2002 by a WUMB poll as one of the top 100 folk artists of the last 20 years. He has several albums and CDs, the newest being The Other Evening In Chicago (2005). Bob has been teaching songwriting in camps, festivals, and special seminars all over the country for roughly 20 years.
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Bennett Hammond
Advanced Beginning Guitar
Filling 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.
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Lorraine Hammond
Old Time Banjo
Practical Music Theory
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.
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 | Ernie Hawkins
Basic Guitar Technique
Advanced Guitar Blues and Rags
For many years Ernie Hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, blues and folk festivals, workshops, colleges, museums, parties, fist fights and millennium celebrations in the United States, Canada, Japan and Spain and at every stop in the road from A Prairie Home Companion to Antone's to the Madrid Jazz Festival. He has played with blues greats such as Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis and many others. He first learned country guitar, mandolin, banjo and bones from a guy named Pete who worked on his uncle's farm. Ernie was already playing blues as a teenager when he heard a fellow play Gary Davis' "Let Us Get Together". He was hooked then and forever on country blues and ragtime guitar and players like Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Willie Johnson, Skip James, John Hurt and Leadbelly. After high school, Ernie moved to New York City to study with Rev. Gary Davis. In 1969 he moved back to Pennsylvania and earned a degree in philosophy. In 1973 Ernie moved to Dallas for graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in phenomenological psychology. There he hooked up with players from all over the southwest, learning some Lemon Jefferson, Henry Thomas and Lightnin' Hopkins. In the early '80's he recorded his first solo album of ragtime guitar, Ragtime Signatures. His second CD Blues Advice was dedicated to the memory of his teacher, Rev. Gary Davis. The CD includes three songs taught to Ernie by Davis: "Penitentiary Blues," "Florida Blues" and "Will There Be Stars in My Crown" that have never been previously recorded. Ernie's third CD Bluesified regularly plays in the preemie unit of a Pittsburgh hospital where the soulful guitar is considered an integral part of the healing process. He has Instructional videos on Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Willie McTell, Mance Lipscomb and Rev. Gary Davis. |
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Reverend Robert Jones
Survery of Country Blues Guitar
Blues Harmonica
Robert Jones stands as a well respected interpreter and performer of the acoustic blues. Through the use of singing, storytelling and playing of vintage instruments typical of early blues, Robert conveys and carries on the traditions. Detroit Free Press columnist, Bob Talbert, has called him "... Detroit's foremost acoustic blues guitarist," while Hubert Sumlin, Howling Wolf's legendary guitarist, called him an "extraordinary musician." Robert, who has a particular affinity for the music of Son House was once told by Robert Johnson's adopted son and protege, Robert Jr. Lockwood "... Man, you got Son House in your pocket."
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The Kennedys
Vocal Harmony
Performance
Pete and Maura Kennedy are full-time performing and recording musicians who have co-written songs with Nanci Griffith, Tom Paxton, Kate Campbell, Bill Lloyd and others. Maura was voted New York State's Songwriter of the Year in 1988, and Pete won the Washington Area Music Association's (WAMA) song of the year in 1995 for "Same Old Way." As a songwriting team, they won the 1999 WAMA songwriter of the year award. They have written numerous songs for movies and television. Pete has received over fifty Wammy awards from the Washington Area Music Association, taught for five years at Ellsworth Studios, and he and Maura were Artists-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. They have taught music technique for many years and over the past 10 years have made music education a big part of their outreach
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John Kirk
Mandolin
Fiddle
John Kirk has always made his living as a musician. In addition to his work with his wife Trish Miller, he fiddles with an old-time stringband called the Woodshed All-stars, and occasionally works with the Vanaver Caravan, an International dance troupe, and the Susquehanna Stringband. He is adjunct music faculty member at Bennington College, Vermont. John was part of the national touring band Walt Michael & Co. in the 1980's. He can be heard, along with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, on the Ken Burns-PBS television series The West, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in concert with the Catskill Conservatory Chamber Players. He has his own recordings and has played as a studio musician on many more. In addition to his musicianship, John is a dynamic workshop leader, clog dancer and joke collector.
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Trish Miller
Basic Guitar
Clogging
Trish Miller has been teaching and performing Appalachian clogging since 1981. She calls square dances, plays old-time clawhammer banjo and guitar. The groups she has danced with include, The Back Creek Cloggers from Richmond, VA.; The Green Grass Cloggers, a professional touring troupe from Asheville, North Carolina; and occasional appearances with the Vanaver Caravan from New Paltz, NY. Trish is office manager for Quickstep Music, choreographs and arranges traditional American music & dance programs for schools, concerts & workshop settings. She and her husband John Kirk have toured throughout the U.S. and abroad since 1988 in venues ranging from a school down in the Grand Canyon to Barbados; from the local Dance Flurry Festival to a concert at the Academy of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Sloan Wainwright
Vocal/Vocal Health
Folk-pop singer/songwriter Sloan Wainwright belongs to a musical dynasty of impossibly gifted singer/songwriters. Her family tree (brother and folk-music luminary Loudon Wainwright, her late sister-in-law Kate McGarrigle, nephew Rufus Wainwright, nieces Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche) reads like a who's who of contemporary folk music. Sloan's incredible gift is not only her unique songwriting ability but her dramatically voiced rendition of her original songs. "She's folk-influenced, obviously (you can't grow up in the First Family of Folk and not be, one imagines), but the real star here is her voice. Warm and smoky and smooth, it makes her earthy, ominous lyrics seem all the more intense." Defying standard categorization, singer/songwriter Sloan Wainwright consistently demonstrates her easy command of a variety of American musical styles -- pop, folk, jazz and blues -- held together by the melodious tone of her rich contralto. The end result is a unique and soulful hybrid. With a solid and impressive discography of 7 original CD releases to her credit, Sloan continues to write, sing and perform live. In addition, Sloan has written numerous musical compositions for theater and dance and teaches at many of the best-known master songwriter series and workshops. Sloan's open spirit and first-hand experience is welcome --year after year-- in the musical classrooms of such prestigious song camps as The Swannanoa Gathering, Summersongs, Wintersongs, WUMB Radio's Summer Acoustic Music Week (SAMW) and Lamb's Retreat. Sloan is an independent artist making grown-up girl music in the truest sense.
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