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 DC Bluegrass Union
Bluegrass
&
Oldtime Camp
At Common Ground on the Hill
Traditions Week II, July 11-17, 2009
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Tim O'Brien
The 3rd Annual DC Bluegrass Union Bluegrass & Oldtime Camp is actually a "camp within a camp." Common Ground on the Hill, in its 15th season on the beautiful McDaniel College campus in Westminster, Maryland, offers a wide range of classes in the traditional, roots-based arts, including music, art, craft, dance, film, writing and more. In two separate Traditions Weeks, all campers can select from any and all classes, making up their own schedule. Attendees can elect to reside on campus, or commute daily. We highly recommend that you stay on campus and not spend one minute in your car for a week. You'll like it! By the way, if you are flying or training in to BWI Airport, we can pick you up!
The DCBU Bluegrass & Old Time Camp boasts a top flight teaching staff who offer five separate class periods of instruction every day, Monday - Friday, July 13-17. The bluegrass and oldtime curriculum reflects the reality that both musical styles are historically and currently interrelated in a profound way, and offers campers the rare opportunity to learn from both idioms.
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
We encourage you to attend the Common Ground on the Hill Roots Music & Arts Festival at the nearby Carroll County Farm Museum on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the start of classes, where you will hear your instructors play. Don't miss headliners Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys on July 11th and Tim O'Brien on July 12th! After Tim's set, make your way over to the McDaniel campus for supper, orientation, jamming and dancing. Wake up Monday morning and dive into your classes, enjoy evening concerts and dances and informal playing into the wee hours....for five days and nights! Consider attending as a family, enrolling your 5-12 year olds in our World Village youth program.
Tuition fees are $420, unless you register by May 1st for the Early Bird Special at $390. Room and Board in our air conditioned housing runs from $240 - $290 for the week, with meals taken in the campus cafeteria. Commuters my elect to stay at any number of nearby motels.
Keep your eyes on this website for online-registration, exact schedules, etc. Meanwhile, if you want to register, give us a call in our offices: 410-857-2771. We'll be sure to call you back if we aren't in.
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Here's a list of your instructors
& the classes they will teach!
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Click on their names to learn more about them.
There will be a class offered in Recording Your Music.
See "Mike Atherton"
Tim O'Brien
Tim will teach a daily masterclass focusing on a number of his talents including songwriting, voice, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and more. Don't miss this rare chance to learn from one of the true major talents in traditional music.
Tom Adams
Tom ranks among the greatest bluegrass instrumentalists of all time, having played and recorded with legends from Jimmy Martin to Rhonda Vincent. Tom will teach intermediate and advanced guitar.
Jimmy Heffernan is one of the true masters of the resonator guitar. He's also a highly respected Nashville session player, sideman, and producer. During his 35-year music career he has performed and recorded with such bluegrass and country greats as Larry Sparks, Red Allen, Bill Keith, Doug Kershaw, Joe Diffie and Brad Paisley. Jimmy is also a highly respected teacher and has authored numerous Dobro instruction books and DVDs. His latest CD is The Resocasters, a collaboration with dobro legend Mike Auldridge and pedal steel demigod Hal Rugg.
Alexander Mitchell
An extremely versatile fiddler, Alexander has played with a number of bands up and down the East Coast, including John Lincoln Wright, Footwowrks, Walt Michael & Company A Berklee graduate, he has a vast repertoire of tunes and techniques, andmaintians a rigorous touring and teaching schedule.
Randy Barrett
Bandleader, vocalist, songwriter, DCBU President and veteran progressive banjoist, Randy will teach intermediate and advanced bluegrass banjo.
Dede Wyland
Dede's vocal prowess has been present on the bluegrass scene for over thirty years, from Grass Food and Lodging in Wisconsin to Tony Trischka & Skyline in New York to any number of great bands in the DC area, where she teaches vocal technique to legions of students. Dede will, of course teach bluegrass vocals and vocal technique here.
Tara Linhardt
Tara, a native Virginian, has played bluegrass from the mountains of Virginia to the mountains of Tibet. She will be your mandolin instructor for beginners, intermediate and advanced students.
Tom Gray
Learn bass from this legendary bassist. From the Country Gentlemen to the Seldom Scene to Carolina Star and Emmy Lou Harris, Tom has been at the epicenter of progressive bluegrass music for almost 50 years! Don't miss this opportunity!
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Dave Bing
 Dave Bing represents the finest of West Virginia's oldtime fiddle and banjo artistry. A founding member of the Bing Brothers and Gandydancer, Dave's fiddlng and banjo playing will dispel any false notions you may have about the simplicity or rough edges of oldtime music. His music is in a word, elegant. Dave will teach intermediate/advanced oldtime fiddle and clawhammer banjo.
Earl White
One of the founding members of the seminal clog dance troupe,the Green Grass Cloggers, Earl learned old time fiddle from the masters as he danced and toured throughout Appalachia in the 1970's. His unique knowledge of the all too often overlooked black southern Appalachian fiddle tradition and tunes is a virtual window into the true origins of southern Appalachian fiddle music. Earl will teach fiddle tunes from his huge repertoire.
Suzanne & Jim
Jim Hale has for over thirty years been at the forefront of the clawhammer banjo revival. Suzanne Jaroszynsky has twice been a first place winner at the prestigious Mount Airy, North Carolina Fiddlers Convention in Folk Songs category and is an accomplished clog dancer and percussionist. Jim will teach clawhammer banjo and join Suzanne in an oldtime song class. Suzanne will teach clogging and bones.
Dave Kiphuth & Linda Schrade
Dave will teach beginning Scruggs style bluegrass banjo as well as beginning clawhammer banjo. Dave has been a major fixture in the New England bluegrass scene since the 1960's, playing and singing alongside the famed pioneers of bluegrass. Linda, a wonderful singer and rhythm guitar player, performs with Dave in their quartet, Red Hen. Linda and Dave will teach harmony singing and songs, and Linda will teach rhythm guitar technique. www.davidkiphuth.com
Ben Townsend
Ben hails from West Virginia and represents the best of a new generation of true vine oldtime musicians. Ben will teach beginning oldtime fiddle, and will run the 5th period oldtime jam session. He will also lead the evening dances.
Here's to the Long Haul
More than a band playing both contemporary and traditional mountain music, Here's to the Long Haul is born of the historic and ongoing movements for justice in Appalachia. Willie Dodson and Joe Overton first met and played music in Southern West Virginia in 2006 at the second annual Mountain Justice Training Camp, a gathering of folks working together to fight mountaintop removal coal mining. Willie, Joe and Kyle will be a band presence in camp while teaching us about the ecological realities going on in the mountains that bore our music.
Jeanean Martin
Jeanean will teach an intermediate/advanced hammered dulcimer repertoire class to teach the techniques that make for music consistent with the stylings and phrasings of old time music.
Mike Atherton
A lifetime touring and recording musician, Mike attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, Arizona and produces recording projects in his studio in Trego, Montana. Mike's class will teach you how to record your own project using the amazing technology that is now available to us all as a result of the digital revolution.
Sign up for other Common Ground classes too -
art, dance, film, lecture and more!
Create your own curriculum!
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