3:30-4:30pm: Bruce Molsky - Fiddle and Dough Workshop
Join Bruce Molsky with your fiddle for a hands-on workshop. We’ll dig into the details of a fun tune or two, and Bruce will play some examples of the classic tunes from old time music’s huge repertoire. And since it turns out that so many Bellingham old time music lovers are members of his Facebook “Fiddle and Dough” bakers group, bring your baking stories too and we can share a few successes and failures. They’re all fun and mostly edible. For those not familiar with the group, if you like roots music (you don’t have to be a player!) and like baking, please join us! We share recipes, experiences and photos of our kitchen conquests. It’s a fun place to hang out.

Four Sat afternoon classes startng Feb13 -Mar 6. We’ll look at a couple of classic tunes and focus on the important elements, like phrasing and rhythm, and work on techniques such as pull-offs, drop thumbs and rolls. Solid time is the engine behind good banjo playing, and so we’ll come back to some of the right hand basics as well that give the drive we’re all looking for.

Four Sat afternoons. We’ll take a fun and intense hands-on approach in Bruce’s old time fiddle workshop. Tunes are taught a phrase at a time, first melody, then bowing, and then piecing things together. We'll dig into old-time music's unique phrasing, rhythm and syncopation, intonation, etc. The tune is the vehicle, so mostly we'll be playing! If enough folks are interested, we can also spend some time working on singing with the fiddle.