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Uke Fest Revue 2023

Scottish String Fling Concert 2023

Scottish String Fling Concert 2022

Old Time Jam Live from 2022 Rollick

Taking our Water For Their City

A Fiddler’s Tale

Permaculture Food & Energy Security

Evolution of American Jazz Piano

Historical Fiction for Young Readers

Birth of the Blues

Finger Style Banjo

Cajun Jam

Mountain Voices

Old Time Guitar in 4/4

Toward Freedom & Justice

Songs of the Civil War

Old Time Guitar in 3/4

Old Time Mandolin

Creole Fiddle

Creole Accordion

Old Time Harmony Singing

Slow Jam

Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

Cajun Fiddle

Body Percussion

Old Time Banjo

Humdingers Concert

Old Time Fiddle

Cajun Fiddle

Old Time Banjo

Opening Concert & Jam

Old Time Fiddle

Cajun Guitar

Old Time Jam

Cajun Accordion

Cajun Accordion

Cajun Dance Party with the Old-Fashioned Aces

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Clogging (Beg/Int)

Contra Dance Fiddle

Swedish Fiddle

Québécois Piano

Métis Fiddle

Opening Concert & Jam

Guitar Accompaniment

Soirée Française

New England Jam

Waltzes & Airs Jam

Singing

Playing for English Country Dancing

Nyckelharpa

Québécois Cinq a Six

Mandolin

Swedish Jam

Québécois Fiddle AEAE

Québécois Fiddle

Singing

Contra Dance Fiddle

Waltzes & Airs Jam

Song Swap

English Tune Jam

Swedish Fiddle

Nyckelharpa

Métis Fiddle

Québécois Accordion

Guitar Accompaniment

Québécois Musical Traditions

Singing

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Québécois Fiddle

Evening Concert

Opening Concert & Jam

Riffin’ Together Part I

A Voice to Sing, A Story to Tell

Solo Jazz Dances

Listening to Louis, Billie and Lester

Country Backup Guitar

Let’s Decompose, then Recompose…The art of Song Modeling in Songwriting

Jam, Sing, or Dance Along with Jay & Molly

Singalong Song Swap

Swing Mandolin

Honky Tonk Jam

Swing Jam

Gypsy Jazz Violin

Intro to Swing Rhythm Guitar

Western Swing Mandolin

Country Fiddle

Performance Coaching

Chord Families: How Chord Progressions Work

Riffin’ Together Part II

A Voice to Sing, A Story to Tell

Solo Jazz Dances

Home On The Range for Fiddlers

Home On The Range – Guitar Accompaniment

Let’s Decompose, then Recompose…The art of Song Modeling in Songwriting

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Gypsy Jazz Violin

Swing Guitar (Int–Adv)

Listening to Louis, Billie and Lester

Country Fiddle

Play, Sing or Dance-Along with Barry & Holly

Fun with Chord Progressions

Opening Concert & Jam

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Jam for High Int and Adv

Guitar for Beg and Low Int

Guitar for High Int and Adv

Harmony Singing

Songwriting

Lead Singing

Bluegrass Singing

Jam for Beg and Low Int

Fiddle for High Int and Adv

Fiddle for Beg and Low Int

Banjo for Beg and Low Int

Jam for Beg and Low Int

Banjo for High Int and Adv

Jam for All Levels

Lead Singing

Harmony Singing

Songwriting

Mandolin for High Int and Adv

Jam for High Int and Adv

Mandolin for Beg and Low Int

Chord Inversions

The Power of the C Major Scale

Chord Melody from the Ground Up

Introduction to the Acapella App

Left-Handed Muting Strumming

Son Husasteco (Huapango)

Ashokan Farewell and Strum

Let’s Get it Started

Son Jarocho (Fandango)

Confident Beginner Repertoire

Sing Stronger, Sing Longer

Clawhammer Ukulele

Fantastic Four Chords

Percussive Reggae Strumming Patterns

The Style of George Formby

The Music of Tin Pan Alley

Camper Cabaret Open Mic + Group Strum

Shake It!

The Music of Cole Porter

Opening Concert & Jam

Moveable Chord Shapes

Special Dinnertime Concert

The Art of Scottish String Flinging Part II

Basics of Backup Part II

Farewell Concert and Jam

Opening Concert & Jam

The Art of Scottish String Flinging

Rhythm and Arrangement

Music & Movement

Basics of Backup

Discussion: My Life In Music

Concert and Cèilidh

Rhythm and Arrangement Part II

Step Dance Class

Old-Time Music in a Minor Key on the Mountain Dulcimer – Intermediate

Singing and Playing- All Instruments

Old Time Songs & Tunes on the Autoharp – Novice to Intermediate

Ballads on the Mountain Dulcimer – Intermediate

Farewell Gathering and Jam

Old Time Mountain Dulcimer – Beginner

Hammered Dulcimer Chords – Novice to Intermediate

Autoharp Melody Picking Part 1 – All Levels

Tunes in G You Should Know on the Mountain Dulcimer – All Levels

Autoharp Melody Picking Part 2 – All Levels

Jamming Strategies – All Instruments and Levels

Mountain Dulcimer – Intermediate

Fun with Folk Hymns – Hammered Dulcimer Beginner to Intermediate

Hammered Dulcimer – Intermediate to Advanced

Playing Well With Others – All Instruments and Levels

Mapping the Hammered Dulcimer with Scales and Chords – All Levels

Autoharp Open Chording – Intermediate to Advanced

Hammered Dulcimer Basics – Absolute Beginner

Meet the Teachers Followed by an Opening Jam For All

Wonderful Waltzes on the Autoharp – Novice to Intermediate

I Don’t Need Nobody! Be Your Own One-Man Band

Joni Mitchell “Ladies of the Canyon” in C Variant Tuning

Jazz Hands: Class Up Your Chords

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Improvisation: From Your Hand Onto the Guitar

Doorway to Chord Melody and Inversions

Blues Master Repertoire

Dig In Deep! Be a Groove Merchant!

Staff & Camper Sing and Play-along Tune Sharing

Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” in Open D Tuning

Chord Progression Basics

Flat-Picking Fiddle Tunes

Harmony & Rhythm in Django Reinhardt’s Playing

Easy Swing Repertoire

Opening Concert!

Finding Your Way On the Fretboard

Exploring Dropped-D Tuning

Django Reinhardt’s Guitar Technique

Texas Swing Chords

Blues Origins, Masters & Technique

Two Swing Chord Shapes That Will Change Your Life

String Bass

Nic Gareiss: Extended Flatfoot Techniques

Sat Night Jam with Staff

Song Swap with Val

Opening Concert & Jam

Old Time Duets Val and Emily

Rhythm Explosion: Banjo Uke, Mando & More

Gospel Sing

Fiddle III

Slow Jam

Banjo -Tips & Tools for Jamming

Earl White Stringband Concert

Nic Gareiss Flatfoot Dance Concert

Banjo I

Banjo III

Fiddle II

Open-Tuned Fiddle (DDAD)

Farewell Gathering/Jam

Old Time Guitar

OT Trios, Val and Emily w/special guest Ginny Hawker

Fiddle I

Banjo II

Understanding Racism with Albert Cook (3)

Understanding Racism with Albert Cook (2)

Understanding Racism with Albert Cook (4)

Understanding Racism with Albert Cook (1)

Maple Sugaring in NY Past Present Future

Waltz Jam

Learn the Montague Processional (melody/harmony)

Learn the Lovers’ Waltz (melody/harmony)

Learn the Lover’s Lament (melody/backup)

Song & Tune Circle

Learn Love of My Life (melody)

Learn the Mountain House (melody/harmony)

Learn the Mountain House (accompaniment)

Learn Louisiana Wedding Bells (melody/backup)

Valentine’s Concert and Dance

Learn the Montague Processional (accompaniment)

Learn the Lovers’ Waltz (accompaniment)

Learn the Lover’s Lament (accompaniment/vocal)

Learn Love of My Life (accompaniment)

Learn Louisiana Wedding Bells (guitar/vocal)

Auld Lang Zoom

Holiday Sing with Joe Newberry

Dance the Charleston with Brian Lawton #4

Art That Builds A Story Of Resilience

Dance the Charleston with Brian Lawton #3

Dance The Charleston with Brian Lawton #2

Dance The Charleston with Brian Lawton #1

Farewell Jam

Making Of Harvest Home – Behind the Scenes

Open Mic

Learn Bound For Another Harvest Home (melody)

Learn Bound For Another Harvest Home (accompaniment)

Learn Prairie Spring (accompaniment)

Learn Prairie Spring (melody)

Concert, Waltzes & Airs Jam

Welcome Gathering, Welcome Tunes with Jay & Molly

Sunday Singing Sessions #4

Sunday Singing Sessions #3

African Traditions in American Roots Music

Sunday Singing Sessions #2

Sunday Singing Sessions #1

Honky Tonkin’ at Home #4

Honky Tonkin’ at Home #3

In Defiance: Resistance and the Persistence of Racism in American History

Honky Tonkin’ at Home #2

Honky Tonkin’ at Home #1

Food Forests & Indigenous Leadership

The Last Time I Played Dixie

Fiddling Crash Course

Farewell Jam

Campers’ Night

Old Time Radio Hour (Staff Concert)

African + American Rhythms

Old Time Guitar

Songs for Sunday Morning

Old Time Mandolin

Hudson Valley Hoedowns

Old Time Jam 2

Banjo Uke Basics

Playing Banjo Uke with a Fiddler

Zydeco Accordion

Clawhammer Banjo (Int-Adv)

Old Time Singing

Old Time Song Swap

Slow Jam 2 (All Instruments, All Levels)

Appalachian Fiddle DDAD (Int-Adv)

Appalachian Fiddle AEAC# (Int-Adv)

Cook a Gumbo—Millie style

Cajun Jam

Cajun Favorites Repertoire & Jam

Cajun Fiddle

ZydeFit

Team Clogging

Old Time Fiddle (Beg-Int) Part 2

Meet The Teachers & Welcome Jam

Flatfooting for All

Square Dance Calling Basics

Songs for Saturday Night

Gospel Sing

Waltz Jam and Dance with Jay & Molly

Old Time Jam

Creole Perspective

African & Appalachian Music Connections

Slow Jam 1 (All Instruments, All Levels)

Creole Fiddle

Clawhammer Banjo (Beg-Int)

Cajun and Zydeco Dance

Two Finger-Style Banjo

Song Swap

Old Time Fiddle (Beg-Int) Part 1

Old Time Harmony Singing

Fiddle for High Int and Adv

Guitar for High Int and Adv

Harmony Singing

Campers’ Showcase

Teachers’ Concert

Goodbye Jam

Bluegrass Bass

Banjo for High Int and Adv

Lead Singing

Jam for Beg and Low Int

Harmony Singing

An Evening With

An Evening With

Guitar for Beg and Low Int

Jam for Beg and Low Int

Mandolin for Beg and Low Int

Songwriting

Lead Singing

Jam for High Int and Adv

Bluegrass Singing

An Evening With

Jam for High Int and Adv

Songwriting

Banjo for Beg and Low Int

Meet the Teachers & Welcome Jam

Mandolin for High Int and Adv

Fiddle for Beg and Low Int

Meet the Staff, Welcome Jam and Sing-a-long

Little Roots Jam

Mid Day Gathering 1

Ukulele for Kids

Fiddle and Mandolin (Beginner)

Play and Sing Easy Songs Together

Guitar

Mid Day Gathering 2

Ukulele (Beginner)

Moving with the Ranger

Fiddle and Mandolin (Int/Adv)

Mid Day Gathering 3

Joakim’s Choice

Farewell Jam

Family Partner Nature Scavenger Hunt: Start!

Clogging Fun

Evening Gathering 1

Craft Center: Sticks and Stars

Box and String Show

PLAY, SING and MAKE UP SONGS TOGETHER

Evening Gathering 2

Craft Center: Cups, Cups, and More Cups!

Banjo

Family Partner Nature Scavenger Hunt: Wrap-up

Evening Campfire

Late Night Jam

CAMPERS’ NIGHT

STAFF CONCERT

ALL CAMP SINGAROUND AND JAM

FOLK AND BLUES: THE STEADY THUMB

THE BLUES OF BROWNIE McGHEE

CHORD SHAPES UP THE NECK

BOOM CHUCK TO CROSS PICKING

BEYOND STRUMMING

BAND IN A BOX

SONG SWAP

SWING RHYTHM GUITAR: FREDDIE GREEN

SWING JAZZ REPERTOIRE

SWING JAM

BLUES AND RAGTIME GUITAR

EARLY BLUES WOMEN

BLUESY JAM

MOVING FOWARD WITH BACKUP (3/4 TIME)

MOVING FOWARD WITH BACKUP (4/4 TIME)

SINGALONG, PLAYALONG

BASIC FINGERSTYLE OVERVIEW

HOLY BLUES GUITAR

BLUES FINGERPICKING 101

INTRO TO SWING GUITAR, PART 1

INTRO TO SWING GUITAR, PART 2

FUN ON THE FRETBOARD WITH CHORDS

MEET THE TEACHERS, JAMALONG & SINGALONG

Contradance Fiddle (Beg/Int)

Contradance Fiddle (Int/Adv)

Meet The Teachers & Welcome Jam

Nyckelharpa (Beg-Int)

Scandi Jam Part 1

English Fiddle

Contradance Tune Jam

Solo English Piano

Learn a Beautiful Waltz Part 1

Song Swap w/John

Northern Banjo

Nyckelharpa (Int-Adv)

English Country Dance Jam

Swedish Fiddle (Beg-Int)

Dance Band Cello

Callers’ Workshop

Québécois – Cinq a Six a little bit late Part 1

Slow Jam Part 1

Contradance Guitar

Song Swap

Northern Radio Hour

Swedish Fiddle (Int-Adv)

Learn a Beautiful Waltz Part 2

French Dance Band

Bass Basics

Scandi Jam Part 2

Mandolin as a Third Voice

Contradance Mandolin

Québécois Fiddle (Beg-Int)

Québécois – Cinq a Six a little bit late Part 2

Café Français

Songs of Hope

Online Contradance

American Roots Guitar

Québécois Fiddle (Int-Adv)

Camper’s Night Northern Week

More Songs of Hope

Québécois Accordion (Int-Adv)

Farewell Gathering

New England Chestnut Jam

Slow Jam Part 2

Québécois Piano (Int-Adv)

Ashokan Hello (episode 14)

Rollick Jam & Tea #4, Tunes in G

Rollick Jam & Tea #3, Old Time Singing

Cabaret Night

Welcome Jam

Swing Like Charlie Christian (Int/Adv)

Swing Rhythm Guitar (Beg/Int)

Intro to West Coast Dance (Beg-Int)

West Coast Dance Cool Moves (Int/Adv)

Make Your Solos Swing (All Instruments, All Levels)

Swing Mandolin (All Levels)

The Mandolin of Tiny Moore (All Levels)

Intro to Swing Fiddle (Beg-Int)

Swing Fiddle (Int-Adv)

Farewell Jam

Learn a Western Waltz, Part One (All Instruments, All Levels)

Learn a Western Waltz, Part Two (All Instruments, All Levels)

Slow Jam 1 (All Instruments, All Levels)

Slow Jam 2 (All Instruments, All Levels)

Country Jam 2 (All Levels)

Country Jam 1 (All Levels)

Vocal Swing Harmony + Techniques, Part One (All Levels)

Vocal Swing Harmony + Techniques, Part Two (All Levels)

Riffin’ Together, Part One (All Levels)

Riffin’ Together, Part Two (All Levels)

Swing Jam 2 (All Levels)

Intro to Swing Guitar (Beg-Int)

Swing Guitar II (Int-Adv)

A Voice to Sing With, a Story to Tell, Part One (All Levels)

A Voice to Sing With, a Story to Tell, Part Two (All Levels)

Listening to Louis, Billie, and Lester

Swing Jam 1 (All Levels)

Mexican Fiddle Music of Tierra Caliente

Western Swing Fiddle (Int-Adv)

Country Singalong (All Levels)

Honky Tonk Jam (All Levels)

Fun With Chord Progressions, Part Two (All Levels)

Swing Jam 3 (All Levels)

Lap Steel – C6 Tuning (All Levels)

Basic Drumming and Percussion Techniques (All Levels)

Dance the Charleston (All Levels)

Solo Jazz Dance (All Levels)

Fun With Chord Progressions, Part One (All Levels)

Let’s Recompose, Not Decompose, Part One (All Levels)

Let’s Recompose, Not Decompose, Part Two (All Levels)

Campers Night (Open Mic)

Meet the Teachers & Welcome Jam

Rollick Jam & Tea #2, Tunes in D

Rollick Jam & Tea #1, Tunes in A

Ashokan Hello (episode 13)

Ashokan Hello (episode 12)

Ashokan Hello (episode 11)

Ashokan Hello (episode 10)

Ashokan Hello (episode 9)

Old Time Mountain Dulcimer

Autoharp Waltzes

Hammered Dulcimer Basics

Meet the Teachers

Meet the Teachers & Group Strum

Wrestling Romans

Music School Dropout

Right Hand Techniques

Play (Almost) Every Song

Hawaiian Strumming Sunday

American Work Songs

Intro to Jazz Ukulele

Ditch The Nerves

Staff Concert

Camper Cabaret

Up Your Teaching Game

EZ Tablature

Basics of Hawaiian Mele

Clawhammer Uke

Ashokan Farewell

Autoharp Accompaniment

Mountain Dulcimer – Hand Skills

Hammered Dulcimer – Intermediate

Mountain Dulcimer – Intermediate

Rudimentary, My Dear Watson! Hammered Dulcimer

Stephen Foster Melodies for Autoharp

Know Your Mountain Dulcimer Before Using Whiskey (Before Breakfast)

Staff Concert

Hammered Dulcimer

Thumb Lead Autoharp

Ballads & Sacred Songs

Hold Fast to the Right & Never Grow Old

Farewell Jam

So You’re Ready To Record

The Fiddling of Will Adam

Fare-thee-Well Jam

Fiddle Repertoire

Saturday Night Jam

Alexander Technique

Gospel Sing

Mandolin

Old Time Duets

Old Time Rhythm

Waltz Jam

Staff Concert

Fiddle III

Stringband Guitar

Fiddle II

Banjo I

Banjo II

Open Jam

Slow Jam

Women In Old Time Music

Final Concert & Jam

Discussion: What is Old Time Music

Staff Introductions

Welcome Jam

Fiddle I

Welcome Session

The Art of Scottish String Flinging

Rhythm & Arrangement

Discussion: My Life In Music

Music & Movement

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