Winter Acoustic Music Weekend

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Bennett

From February 27^th through March 1^st

Groton, MA

registration opens Nov. 1 at 9 a.m.

The Kennedys, Cliff Eberhardt, Sally Rogers, Ben Pearce, The Hammonds, John Doershuk

Week 1 of SAMW 2014

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Bennett

SAMW is Summer Acoustic Music Week, an adult Summer camp for people who like or would like to sing and play the roots-based alternate popular music of America, sometimes called “folk music,” and – as it turns out – for singer/songwriters who wish to hone their craft in the company of peers. Lorraine is one of the co-founders of SAMW. She became Musical Director when the Founding All-Father Dick Pleasants retired.

One guiding principle at SAMW is that teaching staff will always be active performers whose art is steeped in tradition. Another is that too much work -work makes artists run and hide whenever they can. SAMW campers get to spend hours with the stars, not only in class but at the beach, at meals, on the porch, no one is working too hard and everyone’s having fun.

Week 1 July 13 – 19, 2014

www.wumb.org/samw/

Banjo Camp North, Fall Edition! Charlton MA

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Bennett

Lorraine and I will joyfully head back to Banjo Camp at Prindle Pond Centre in Charlton, MA. She runs the beginner track, and I help out here and there with guerilla banjo workshops, guitar tutoring ‘n’ stuff. It’s the most fun there is. Tell ’em “Bennett sent me” and I get 50 bucks!

www.mugwumps.com/bcn-fall.html

Banjo Camp!

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Bennett

Wall-to-wall banjos of every description, new and old; great players and teachers; fun workshops and demonstrations; astonishing faculty concert; lots o’ jamming; Natural setting; good food and plenty of it; yup, it’s a real good time!

Check it out at Mugwumps.com

Lorraine Teaches Mandolin at the Folk School

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Bennett

Lorraine teaches beginning mandolin at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC

https://www.folkschool.org/

NY Folk Music Society Weekend in the Catskills

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Bennett

Lorraine and Bennett will be with the New York Folk Music Society at their Winter Weekend in the Catskills. One of our favorites, this is a Very Relaxed Event. Get ready for jamming with ace singers and players, for hanging out with bright, energetic and interesting people, while dining sumptuously in the mountains.

http://www.folkmusicny.org/weekends.html#winter

February 8-10, 2013

SAMW ’12 Reunion and ’13 Registration

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Bennett

The SAMW 2012 Reunion and 2013 Registration get-together will be on January 6, 2013 at UMass Boston. 1 p.m.

You may have read rapturous rhapsodies about SummerAcousticMusicWeek, but if you ain’t been there, you just don’t know. For the curious, there is a real taste of SAMW at our annual January reunion and pre-registration, where old friends and new ones come to jam and mingle and snack and hear about next Summer’s line-up. Come on down. You’ll be right at home.

www.wumb.org/samw/