Important News from Midwest Banjo Camp
kenpe...@aol.com
We have a couple of important new announcements.
First, we are pleased to announce that we have just added Pete Wernick
to the MBC bluegrass banjo staff. Adding "Dr. Banjo" to the mix makes
our already strong bluegrass faculy lineup even stronger. Pete needs
little introduction to anybody involved in bluegrass music today. He
has been a member of such trend-setting bands as Hot Rize and Country
Cooking, has written some of the world's most popular bluegrass banjo
instruction books, and was President of the International Bluegrass
Music Association for 15 years. For more information on Pete's career,
see his bio on our website http://www.midwestbanjocamp.com, or go
directly to http://www.drbanjo.com/.
Second, we have just posted a preliminary schedule for our "Pre-Camp"
program. This covers activities that will take place before the start
of the regular camp on Thursday evening June 5, and Friday morning
June 6. Pre-Camp activities include a mixer, faculty-led jams, several
demonstrations, and quite a number of "mentor" sessions (during mentor
sessions, assigned teachers are made available to offer advice about
levels, MBC class choices, technique, set-up, or any other banjo
related issue). This year, students registered for MBC can attend the
pre-camp program without additional charge.
Here are our particulars:
Dates: June 6-8, 2008
Place: Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan (about 30 miles southwest of
Lansing)
Times: Registration opens 12 noon on Friday June 6; Camp ends 3:30 PM
on Sunday June 8. The "pre-camp" program runs from Thurs. eve June 5
thru Friday morning, June 6.
Website: http://www.midwestbanjocamp.com
Instructors:
Old-time: Bob Carlin, Cathy Fink, Adam Hurt, Brad Leftwich, Reed
Martin, Joe Newberry, Michael Miles and Ken Perlman. Chris Coole heads
up our old-time Novice program.
Bluegrass: Janet Beazley, Greg Cahill, Pat Cloud, Bill Evans, Bill
Keith, Jens Kruger, James McKinney, Alan Munde, and Peter Wernick.
Mike Sumner heads up our old-time Novice program.
Accompanists: Peter Knupfer (bluegrass fiddle), Ron McKeever
(bluegrass guitar), "Chirps" Smith (old-time fiddle) and Mark Sahlgren
(old-time guitar).
For more information on Midwest Banjo Camp, including our revised
schedule that includes Pete Wernick's classes and our newly-posted pre-
camp schedule, plus bios for the entire faculty and registration
information, go to http://www.midwestbanjocamp.com
We look forward to meeting you in June!
Cheers,
Ken Perlman and Stan Werbin
Directors, Midwest Banjo Camp
Kellie Allen
Now we know who won't be at Mt. Airy!
On Apr 1, 5:45�pm, kenperl...@aol.com wrote:
> Folks
> �
> We have a couple of important new announcements.
> �
> First, we are pleased to announce that we have just added Pete Wernick
> to�the MBC�bluegrass banjo�staff. Adding "Dr. Banjo" to the mix makes
> our already strong bluegrass faculy lineup even stronger. Pete needs
> little introduction to anybody involved in bluegrass music today.�He
> has been a member of such trend-setting bands as Hot Rize and Country
> Cooking, has written some of the world's most popular bluegrass banjo
> instruction books, and was President of the International Bluegrass
> Music Association for 15 years. For more information on Pete's career,
> see his bio on our website�http://www.midwestbanjocamp.com, or go
> directly tohttp://www.drbanjo.com/. �
> information, go tohttp://www.midwestbanjocamp.com