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Guitar Week, July 27-August 2, 2008

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-10:15

Celtic Ornaments in DADGAD

Thumb-style Guitar

Beg.
Slack Key Guitar

Piedmont Masters

Troubleshooting Guitar Arrangements

Composing for Solo Guitar

Song Accomp-animent Lab

Int. Fingerstyle Guitar

Deep Bluegrass Guitar

Beg. Fingerstyle Guitar

Pan-African Band

Mandolin I

10:15-10:45

Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-12:00

Getting Strong and Accurate

Beg. Dobro- style Guitar

Bossa Nova Guitar I

Int./Adv. Slack Key Guitar

Folk And Bluegrass Improvising

All the Things There Are

Familiar Tunes in Unfamiliar Tunings

Finding Your Own Musical Language

Stealin' From Chet

Christmas in July

Guitar for Beginners

Orkney Immersion for Singer/ Songwriters

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:15

Guitar Maintenance & Repair, Luthiers' exhibit, Slow Jam, Free time

2:30-3:45

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar I

Claw-hammer Banjo & Guitar

Ballads & Blues

Bluegrass Songbook

Rhythm for Life – & Guitarists

Gypsy Jazz

Beg. Slide Guitar

Practicing & Daily Exercises

Arranging Popular Tunes for Solo Guitar

Writing Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar

Favorite Fingerpicking Arrangements Mandolin II

4:00-5:15

Slap Tap Happy

Bossa Nova Guitar II

Arranging Trad. Tunes for Solo Guitar

Finger-style Jazz

Rt.-Hand Cures for Frustrated Intermediates

Hawaiian Songs & Slack Key Guitar

Int./Adv. Slide Guitar

Interpret-ation & Tone

Int. Dobro- style Guitar

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar II Guitar Odds & Ends Adv.
Flat-picking

5:00-6:30

Supper

7:30-?

Evening Events (concerts, dances, open mikes, jams, etc.)

 

Guitar Week has grown each year to become one of the finest programs of its kind anywhere. Selected as one of the top three music camps by Acoustic Guitar magazine, we are proud that folks like what we do and want to keep coming back year after year.

For 2008, we feature some exciting new instructors and a few popular staff members returning after a few years absence. We will once again offer classes in flatpicking and fingerstyle acoustic guitar in all styles for all levels from Beginning to Advanced. We also have three dobro classes, two levels of mandolin, and a clawhammer banjo class. With more world-class instructors on the staff this year than ever before, we are able to offer an even wider variety of subjects. In addition to the typical offerings, we will have more blues, Christmas music for guitar, and World Music classes like Pan-African Band, Gypsy Jazz, Bossa Nova and of course, Hawaiian Slack Key. Ed Dodson will again lead slow jams after lunch each day, and Friday’s supper will feature Patrick Landeza’s now-legendary luau. Throughout the week, our Luthier’s Exhibit will feature instruments from several of the country’s top guitar-builders. We will once again have a variety of Beginning to Intermediate level classes to accommodate those students who aren’t quite ready for the Intermediate to Advanced classes, so please read the descriptions carefully before your decide where you belong. We want everyone to get the most out of their week. For most of our classes it is recommended that students should play at an Intermediate level: students should have mastered beginning skills, be able to tune their instruments, keep time, play the principal scales cleanly, and know how to play a few tunes with confidence. Guitar Week runs concurrently with our Contemporary Folk Week, and students may take classes in either program. You can view classes here as well as staff bios. Or go directly to an individual instructor's bio by clicking on one of the names to the right.

 

2008 Guitar Week Staff

Peter Finger

Steve Baughman

Robin Bullock

Scott Nygaard

Pat Donohue

Pat Kirtley

Doug Smith

Rolly Brown

Vicki Genfan

Al Petteway

Patrick Landeza

Sally Van Meter

Michael Chapdelaine
Mary Flower

Scott Ainslie

Ed Dodson
Ashley Broder
Randy Hughes

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Master Music Makers
Recap of Last Summer
News of the Family
Coming Next Summer
P.S.
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Old-Time Week
Dulcimer Week
Guitar Week
Fiddle Week
Traditional Song Week
Contemporary Folk Week
Swannanoa School of Culinary Arts
 

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The Swannanoa Gathering
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