From February 27th through March 1st
Category Archives: Music Camp
Week 1 of SAMW 2014
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
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!
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
Lorraine teaches beginning mandolin at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
NY Folk Music Society Weekend in the Catskills
SAMW ’12 Reunion and ’13 Registration
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/
SAMW 1
Best Music Camp of all! Plenty of access to instructors, jamming all over the place, a Very Big Lake to swim in, Mountains, woods: you know- Heaven!
Riley Baugus
Old Time Guitar
Southern Mountain Banjo
Rolly Brown
Fingerstyle Guitar
Flatpicking Guitar
Susie Burke
Song Repertoire
Vocal Improvisation
Kate Campbell
Songwriting 1
Songwriting 2
John Doershuk
Sound Reinforcement
Cliff Eberhardt
Performance
Song Construction
Trina Hamlin
Bring on the Rhythm – intermediate harmonica
Breathe In….beginning harmonica
Lorraine Hammond
Beginning Mandolin
Morningsong
Bennett Hammond
Guitar – Filling in the Cracks
Advanced Beginning Guitar
Robert Jones
Blues Fingerpicking 101
Blues Slide Guitar
David Surette
Celtic Guitar
Intermediate Mandolin
Erica Weiss
Beginning Guitar
Fiddle
Charles Williams
Voice/Vocal Health
Lorraine at the Mountain Collegium
Maintaining the connection between folk and classical music, Lorraine teaches harp and “Folk Ensemble.”
Mando Camp North
Mandolin Camp! At Prindle Hill Conference Center, Charlton MA.