A weekend for playing and socializing with fellow fiddle (and non-fiddle) students. Nightly sessions and Ceili dance! The camp starts Friday evening on the 14th of August and ends that following Sunday the 16th. All ages and levels welcome. Classes/
Lessons will include:
Cost: $150 for four classes or $135 if registered and paid before May 1st Family members of registered students can take individual classes at the rate of $40 per class. Registered students can also add classes to their required number, at the rate of $40 per class. Due to fewer Banjo class options, banjo students' registration fee is $115 for three class Registration fee is $115 for students age 12 and under taking only the three required "Ensemble" classes General Schedule: Proposed Class Schedule:
Sunday August 16th
A note on the schedule: Fiddle or Banjo I---Beginner to Intermediate Fiddle or Banjo II--Intermediate to Advanced Feel free to ask Alex or any of the teachers what level you may be considered. Schedule is based on class size and interest and may be subject to change. OTHER INFORMATION:
Testimonials from Mountain Road Fiddle Camp 2007 "This is my third year in a row and it just keeps getting better and better! The Brazenhead Inn is the perfect venue to host fiddle camp...The teachers are exceptional too! The Ceili (Dance) Sat. night is a great way to wrap up the experience." "Fabulous! We will come back if at all possible. The place is lovely. The music is beautiful. A lot of thought went in to designing it and we are so grateful!" "We love fiddle camp. It's great to be immersed in music for a weekend, and it's a good social scene for the kids, beautiful setting. We always look forward to it." Teacher Biographies Alex Caton founded the Mountain Road Fiddle Camp in 2005 after she fell in love with the Brazenhead Inn in West Virginia. Her aim was to create a musically productive and fun atmosphere for her fiddle students to learn new material and jam on familiar tunes, plus try their hands at something new--such as dance, drum or guitar. The camp has outgrown her wishes to become an annual event that teachers, family members and students (fiddle as well as singers, dancers, guitarists, bassists, Irish drummers and banjo players) all look forward to with excitement. Alex has been teaching fiddle privately for 12 years and is currently a board member of the Blue Ridge Irish Music School. When Alex is not teaching or planning for fiddle camp, she is playing Irish and Old Time music across the country and globe as a solo artist. She also loves playing with Odd Legged Jenny, with partners Pat Egan and Sabra Guzman, and also gypsy music with various musicians. Alex also enjoys singing and performing on guitar, banjo and bass. For Mountain Road Fiddle Camp she teaches primarily Irish, Old Time and often Gypsy fiddle.Lori Madden is the Director, Dance Instructor and a founding member of BRIMS (the Blue Ridge Irish Music School located in Charlottesville, Virginia), as well as Executive Director for the 214 Community Arts Center. Lori has been teaching dance and leading BRIMS Trad Ensemble since 2000. She is also a member of the dance troupe Humorous Abandon , and has taught and performed at the Lake Eden Arts Festival near Asheville, NC. Lori has taught beginner through advanced dance at Mountain Road Fiddle Camp every year since 2005. Phil Audibert first cut his musical teeth on the 1960's Folk revival movement, until the British Invasion lured him away on a musical journey that led him from Washington DC to Argentina and back. Since then, he has played solo and/or joined or formed a variety of bands performing everything from Blues to Country to classic Rock and Roll. Something of a jack of all trades (and master of none), Phil has also been a Radio News Director, a feature writer, a photographer, a cattle farmer, an innkeeper and a ski instructor. He returned to his musical roots when he formed the Traditional Irish Music band, the Ryegrass Rollers in 2001 which released the critically acclaimed CD Rue the Day in 2003. Now, he and fiddler Alex Caton have branched out to form the duo, Odd Legged Jenny, playing music from both sides of the Atlantic. Phil has taught guitar and voice at Mountain Road Fiddle Camp since 2005. Scott Nelson started playing old-time fiddle and banjo in the early 1970's in Rockbridge County, Virginia during it's heyday as the east-coast mecca for the Old-Time music scene. He was lucky enough to spend some great time with West Virginia traditional banjo player Sherman Hammons and fiddlers Burl Hammons and Wilson Douglas, from whom he learned much abut music, perhaps more about life. Scott's played in a bunch of bands in a bunch of places, and made a lot of great music friends, in the years since then. On occasions when he and his wife Susan Miley join up with their sons Ben and Grey, they perform as The Full Nelsons old time string band. Scott especially loves the energy of playing for dances, helps sponsor The Southern Mountain Square Dance and house concerts in his hometown of Blacksburg, Va and really enjoys passing on his love of Old Time music through individual and group lessons. |
