Guitar
Week has become one of the finest programs of its kind anywhere, staffed by some of the world’s best players and instructors. In 2008, we were awarded a Silver Medal in the Player’s Choice Awards by the readers of Acoustic Guitar magazine. We are proud that folks like what we do and want to keep coming back year after year.
For 2009, we’ve recruited some exciting new instructors, and several popular staff members from previous years will be returning. 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 mandolin classes, a clawhammer banjo class and a class in song accompaniment by Pure Prairie League/Little Feat guitarist and vocalist Craig Fuller. Our sixteen world-class instructors, including four Grammy-winners, will offer classes in a wide variety of subjects, in styles ranging from Celtic to Blues and Christmas Guitar to Guitar Orchestra, and, of course, Patrick Landeza will return to teach Hawaiian Slack Key and host his now legendary Luau at the week’s end. One of the country’s top repairmen, Randy Hughes, will be available for consultations throughout the week. Ed Dodson will again lead slow jams after lunch each day, and our Luthier’s Exhibit will feature some amazing guitars from some of the country’s top 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 you 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.
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