Bluegrass instructional resources

Music Camps North, located in south central Massachusetts, will celebrate 20 years of 5 string instruction with their 2020 edition of Banjo Camp North. The camp, a three-day weekend banjo immersion experience, was started by Mike Holmes in 2001, and

The Department of Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University has announced the addition of two new faculty members familiar to the bluegrass and old time community. Jon Weisberger will come on board as an adjunct, serving

Dobro master Rob Ickes is the first instructor on a new online teaching site from Big Music Tent. Rob's Reso Room went live just this morning, and Big Music Tent is offering two weeks of free access to the 15 hours

Great news for flatpickers! Following on the two very successful years of the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck, The Brevard Music Center in western North Carolina has announced a companion effort for acoustic guitarists. The inaugural Blue Ridge

The fiddle chop is not a new technique in the bluegrass world. Since Bill Monroe made the mandolin chop such a primary part of the bluegrass ensemble, fiddlers had begun mimicking that percussive, rhythmic sound with the fiddle when the

Evidence for the international growth in the popularity of bluegrass pops up fairly regularly on our radar. From the launch of new live performance events outside the US, to the number of bands across the world who play the music,

The folks at Nashville Acoustic Camps, who already host ten bluegrass and old time music instructional camps throughout the year, have added a new one for for this fall. The brainchild of noted instructors Megan Lynch and Adam Chowning, a husband-and-wife

Mark Lavengood has become one of the most sought-after string players in the upper midwest. Skilled on most all of the instruments commonly used in bluegrass, he is especially noted for his work on reso-guitar. A good many bluegrass lovers caught

For the second year in a row, the International Bluegrass Music Association has awarded a scholarship to a promising young picker to attend the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck. The 2019 recipient is 16 year old G

German banjo icon, Rüdger Helbig, has released another instruction book. This time it's a volume on open tunings and music theory called Offene Stimmungen und Akkorde für 5-String Banjo. Though all the text is in German, Rüdi feels that any banjo