I would love to get a closer look/listen to the playing of Bobby Osborne and Frank Wakefield. Goooooodness GRACIOUS that's good.
B On Jan 20, 7:43 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Mike / all, > > I went the first year - I believe it was 2006 - and had a ball. > > Things I liked the year I went: > - the teachers - Mike, Red?& Chris Henry, David Long, Skip Gorman - they all > did a great job and hit on different aspects > - the museum setting - good spot for it > - the other students > - the museum staff - very friendly and helpful > > Things that might have made it better: > - break up some of the classes with some jamming time > - maybe a little more about the dynamics of the mando in a band setting - > controlling tempo and playing on the > ? front edge of the beat > - a fiddler to do classes on interacting with the fiddle and fiddle back up > - improvising in different keys and positions > - better after hours jamming opportunities > > Other folks I'd suggest for instructors (assuming they teach): > - Ronnie McCoury > - David McLaughlin from the Johnson Mountain Boys > - David Davis - Warrior River boys > > Folks who've taught who'd be good have back: > - Bobby Osborne > - Frank Wakefield > - Roland White > > Good luck with it - hope I can make it back sometime. > > John Gay > Memphis > > -----Original Message----- > From: mistertaterbug <[email protected]> > To: Taterbugmando <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:49 pm > Subject: Monroe Camp 2009 > > I agreed today to take the administrative (uhm...or was that advisory) > duties for the International Bluegrass Music Museum's Bill Monroe > Mandolin Camp 2009. I understand that Mike Lawing doesn't work at the > museum anymore, so that leaves a gap. From what I can gather thus far, > the camp will basically be similar in format to the last few. It will > be on/around Monroe's birthday and will be Friday/Saturday/Sunday. > There will be at least 5 instructors and the topics will be somewhat > similar, but I am looking at other aspects of KY style bluegrass > mandolin that have not been touched on so much before. > > I know some of you on this here list have been to the camp, whilst > others have not. What I would like for you to do, beings we have this > forum, is to think about what it was you didn't get last time that > would have been welcome knowledge. What aspects of Bill's music did > not get looked at, either at all or adequately? Is there something > slipping through the cracks that I'm just not thinking of? What have I > left out? Are there artists currently working that have not worked as > instructors at the camp before that either loosely base some of their > work on Monroe's mandolin style or whom you'd like to see tackle KY > style mandolin with a more contemporary flair? The camp is, of course, > devoted to furthering and explaining Monroe's work and music, so I'm > not saying we need to get too far out on a limb. I am also looking at > possibly having the "before bluegrass" idea actively pursued, as well > as the black mandolin culture. Maybe we should go to Arnold Schultz' > gravesite. > > Anyway, I would welcome any suggestions/requests/complaints that may > be floating around. I think there needs to be some other activities to > do besides classes too, but right now at this early stage in the game, > I'm drawing a blank. Now's the time to have your say. > > Tater --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
