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 15th of August and ends that following Sunday the 15th. All ages and levels welcome.
New this year… Some Friday classes and one Sunday class offered for those who prefer not to take four classes in one day ~~ More singing! Especially with a Sunday Morning Sing-a-long ~~ More Opportunities to Dance~~ A Friday night Teacher performance.
Classes/
Lessons will include: -Clawhammer Banjo, Mandolin and Bass Instruction
- DADGAG and Standard Guitar - Nightly Sessions and Ceili dances.
Cost: $140 for four classes or $120 if registered and paid before June 1st Family members of registered students can take individual classes at the rate of $35 per class. Registered students can also add classes to their required four, at the rate of $35 per class.
General Schedule:
Sunday August 17th
A note on the schedule: If you’d like to see a class not offered, or want another class like the ones you see, please tell us. “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, mandolin and banjo players) all look forward to with excitement. Alex has been teaching fiddle for 12 years, she is a founding member of Charlottesville Tune School, a group devoted to involving participants of all ages in the living musical heritage of Old Time string band music, and a teacher and 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 with Odd Legged Jenny, with her band mates Pat Egan and Joe Fallon, and also gypsy music with her group Verbunk. Alex also enjoys singing and performing on guitar, banjo and bass. For Mountain Road Fiddle Camp she teaches primarily Irish, Old Time and Gypsy fiddle.
Pete Vigour grew up in a musical family and has played and sung string band music all his life. His band, Uncle Henry's Favorites, has played for dances and parties for 20 years. Pete teaches music full-time and is a founding member of C-Tunes, The Charlottesville Tune School, a school devoted to involving participants of all ages in the living musical heritage of Old Time string band music. Pete joined the Mountain Road Fiddle Camp staff in 2008 as Old Time fiddle, voice and guitar instructor. Ellen Vigour plays mandolin, sings and calls dances for her band, Uncle Henry's Favorites. She teaches mandolin and fiddle part time and works full time as a Special Education teacher in Charlottesville. |
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