MIDWEST Banjo Camp: Thurs.-Sun. JUNE 3-6, 2021 Thursday Schedule 1:00p Meeting of Work-Study People, Volunteers, Site Coordinators: 2:00p Check-in Begins: 3:30-4:45p Have Your Fretted Instrument or Fiddle Set-Up Evaluated by MBC Co-Director Stan Werbin, Owner of Elderly Instruments 4:00-5:00p Early Bird Bluegrass Jam Early Bird Old-Time Jam 5:30-6:45 Faculty Dinner Meeting: 5:45-6:45 Thursday Dinner: 7:00-7:45 Student Orientation: Thurs 8:00- Bluegrass Demo. Bluegrass Demo. Multi-Styles Demo. Multi-Styles Demo. Old-Time Demo. Old-Time Demo. Fingerstyle Guitar 9:15p Playing in a Bluegrass Band: Waltzes & Slow Tunes on Singing with the Banjo Classic & Swing Jazz on Banjo-Fiddle Duets Cool & Unusual Q&A Concepts & Techniques Bluegrass Banjo 4-String & 5-String Banjos Fiddle Tunes on Banjo Demos Banjo: Cahill & Hirshfeld Evans Davis McKinney Blount Carlin Dowling Bass: Ball Furtado Newberry Scroggins deGroot Perlman Dobro: Baumann Munde Schatz Vappie Hurt L. Pool Fiddle: I. Smith Sumner Wade Wellington Vigour Naiman Guitar: K. Smith Mandolin: Lester Host: Cahill Host: Furtado Host: Newberry Host: Vappie Host: Hurt Host: Perlman Thurs. Bluegrass Bluegrass Bluegrass How Bluegrass All Styles Special Presentation. Old-Time Old-Time Old-Time Old-Time Classic Jazz Jam Guitar Circle 9:30-10:30p “Regular” Jam Intermediate to Jam Slow Jam Vocal Jam Introducing the Banjo “Regular” Jam Intermediate How to Jam Slow Jam (1920s & 30s Jam Workshop Jam Workshop Repertoire) Instructor- (All Levels) 9:30-10:00. Introducing (All Levels) Led Jams Ball, Evans, Baumann, Sumner & Newberry Bluegrass Banjo Carlin & Vigour Hurt & L. Pool Naiman & Vappie Dowling Furtado, Lester McKinney, Cahill, Hirshfeld Wellington Blount & E. Pool & Munde Schatz & I. Smith & Davis deGroot Scroggins K. Smith -- 10:00-10:30. Introducing Old-time Banjo Wade 10:30 - ? Jam on Your Own: Friday Schedule Begins Next Page Midwest Banjo Camp: Friday-Sunday Schedule (Note: Class types and levels are at top of each column, unless stated in the table cells) Types & Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Special Old-Time Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: 4-String Old-Time Guitar: Guitar: Mandolin Dobro Levels Advanced Upper In- Upper In- Middle In- Lower In- Lower In- Novice Classes Fingerstyle Advanced Upper In- Upper In- Lower In- Lower In- Novice Banjo Fiddle Fingerstyle Flatpicking termediate termediate termediate termediate termediate & More termediate termediate termediate termediate 8-9:00a Friday Breakfast: Fri 9:15- The Creating Working Change Technical Jam Know Your Intro to Using the Exploring How to The Banjo Reviewing Know Your 4-String Old-Time Fingerstyle Flatpick Mandolin. Dobro. 10:30a Melodic Up-the- Up Chords Tune-up: Survival Banjo: Banjo Main- Entire Open-D Translate Style of the Basic Banjo, & Banjo. Fiddle. Guitar. Guitar. 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Munde Ball Perlman K. Smith Lester Vappie 10:45a Check-In Begins for “Weekend Only” Students: 12:15-1:15 Friday Lunch: Fri Combining Become a Intro to The Basics 4-3-5: Mechanics Left-Hand Jam Skills Kentucky Fiddle The Songs Playing Tunes from Some More 4-String Old-Time Fingerstyle Flatpick Mandolin. Dobro. 1:30- Scruggs & Good Improvising of Use This of Good Techniques: Help for Bard Dick Tunes from of Roscoe Tunes in the NC Classic Right-Hand Banjo. Fiddle. Guitar. Guitar. The Layout Hammer-ons 2:45p Melodic Bandmate: in the Key Bluegrass Simple Tone: Left- Major & All Instru- Burnett’s the Ozarks, Holcombe, Clawham- Piedmont Old-Time Work, First Guitar Playing “Plays How to & Logic of & Pull-offs Techniques: Techniques of C: All Banjo Formula to & Right- Minor ments. 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Smith Bill Evans Davis Carlin Dowling Lester Furtado Cahill Wellington Perlman Schatz Hurt Fri. 3:00p Tour of Olivet College for Non-Playing Spouses & Companions: Fri. 3:00- Bluegrass Jam Bluegrass Demo. Bluegrass Demo. Multi-Styles Demo. Multi-Instruments Appalachian Vocal Harmony Old-Time Demo. Old-Time Demo. Old-Time Demo. Old-time Jam Attend Live 4:15p Workshop for All Secrets of Single- Stanley Brothers Tunes Composed for Demo. Clogging Workshop: Workshop: Round Peak Traditional Songs Celtic Tunes, Workshop for All Interviews of Instruments & String Retrospective Banjo Exploring the Blues (Also Open to Non- (Also Open to Non- Roundup from the Clawhammer Style Instruments & MBC Instructors Levels: Etiquette, Playing Spouses, Playing Spouses, Appalachians Levels: Etiquette, for Demos Instrument Roles & Hirshfeld Ball Furtado Baumann Etc.) Etc.) Carlin deGroot Instrument Roles & the Picky Fingers Survival Skills McKinney Cahill Munde Dowling Hurt Blount L. Pool Survival Skills Radio Show, Scroggins Evans Naiman Lester Vigour Newberry Perlman conducted by Burke & Sumner Wellington Davis Schatz Vappie Graziano Loring Wade Hartness & E. Pool Host Keith Billik I. Smith & K. Smith Host: McKinney Host: Evans Host: Munde Host: Baumann Host: Carlin Host: Newberry Host: L. Pool Fri 4:30- Friday Free Period: Jam on Your Own 5:45p Or: Have Your Fretted-Instrument or Fiddle Set-Up Evaluated by MBC Co-Director Stan Werbin, Head of Elderly Instruments Or: Attend Live Interviews of MBC Instructors for the Picky Fingers Radio Show, conducted by Host Keith Billik 6-7:00p Friday Dinner: Kirk Cafeteria 7:15-9:35 Friday Faculty Concert (Featuring Half the Faculty): Auditorium Fri.9:50- Bluegrass Bluegrass Inter- Bluegrass Inter- Bluegrass Inter- Bluegrass Bluegrass All Styles Old-Time Old-Time Inter- Old-Time Inter- Old-Time Song Circle All Styles Guitar Circle Classic Jazz 11:00p “Regular” Jam mediate Jam mediate Jam mediate Jam Slow Jam Slow Jam Vocal Jam “Regular” Jam mediate Jam mediate Jam Slow Jam Beginners’ Jam Jam (Strumming & Instruc- Hirshfeld, Cahill & Lester Baumann, Ball, McKinney Davis Sumner Schatz Carlin, Hurt & deGroot & Blount & L. Pool & Wade Simple Chords) Dowling Vappie tor Led Scroggins, & Furtado, Julin & I. Smith & Newberry Vigour Naiman E. Pool Jams K. Smith Munde Wellington Nichols 11:00 Snack Time: Mott Main Entrance 11:30p- Jam on Your Own: 8-9:00a Saturday Breakfast: Types & Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Bluegrass: Special Old-Time Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: Old-Time: 4-String Old-Time Guitar: Guitar: Mandolin Dobro Levels Advanced Upper In- Upper In- Middle In- Lower In- Lower In- Novice Classes Fingerstyle Advanced Upper In- Upper In- Lower In- Lower In- Novice Banjo Fiddle Fingerstyle Flatpicking termediate termediate termediate termediate termediate & More termediate termediate termediate termediate Sat.