The 21st Annual BRITISH COLUMBIA BLUEGRASS WORKSHOP 2010
Week 1: August 22 - August 27, 2010
Sorrento Bluegrass Festival: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Week 2: August 29 - September 3, 2010
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The 21st Annual BRITISH COLUMBIA BLUEGRASS WORKSHOP 2010
Week 1: August 22 - August 27, 2010 |
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Welcome to the 2010 BCBW Website!
Whether you're a picker or a singer, whether you like straight up trad-grass or authentic old time or contemporary stringband sounds, we'll have nothing but great seminars with experienced instructors for you this year!
Making his first BCBW appearance in Week 1, we're thrilled that one of the world's most talented and renowned guitarists, Russ Barenberg, will be joining us! Dobro players are going to have a week to remember with both Stacy Phillips and Mike Witcher showing us how to get our slide on. After countless "please have them back next year" comments and emails, Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry of The Foghorn Stringband from Portland, Oregon will be back this year with their friendly and authentic approach to old time music (we tried to get Caleb Klauder too, but he had other commitments). By popular demand, we're offering two levels of clawhammer banjo led by Chris Coole and Ivan Rosenberg. The Foggy Hogtown Boys will be at the BCBW week 1 (we missed them last year!), as will Shearwater, The DownTown Mountain Boys, Lee Watson, Gene Bretecher, Chris Stevens, Steve Fisher, top BC flatpicker Garry Stevenson, and the flatpickin' harmony singin' Seattle favourite Sue Thompson. We're delighted that fiddler Miriam Sonstenes, banjo maestro Jason Homey from the internationally beloved band Clumsy Lovers, all-around great musician and perennial "nicest person in Canada" nominee Anne Louise Genest (Done Gone Stringband / Annie Lou), and fellow Yukon picker Bob Hamilton (from Hungry Hill and the Done Gone Stringband) will be joining our instructors staff during Week 1.
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Week 2 is going to be a banjo player's ultimate fantasy camp. We've arranged for Tony Furtado, one of the banjo's all-time greats, to lead the advanced banjo seminar! Tony is also a master of bottleneck slide guitar, and we'll make room in the schedule to showcase his guitar skills as well. We have 3 powerhouse bluegrass bands to get you fired up for Week 2 of camp! John Reischman and the Jaybirds are always favourites at the BCBW, and this year students have the opportunity to study harmonies with Trisha Gagnon and Jim Nunally, banjo with Nick Hornbuckle, advanced mandolin with John Reischman, and beginning mandolin with Greg Spatz (yup, in addition to fiddle, he's great at mandolin, too!). The Special Consensus with banjo star Greg Cahill has racked up a lot of workshop experience since last time they were at the BCBW, and with a couple of great new band members, they're an exciting addition of tightly arranged straight-up bluegrass to our 2010 lineup. If you want to learn from some of the coolest and most thoughtful instructors you could ever have, the always phenomenal Foggy Hogtown Boys (Chris Quinn, John Showman, Andrew Collins, Max Heineman, Chris Coole) are back for our second week of camp. For the first time at the BCBW, we're very happy that flatpicker extraordinaire Kathy Barwick will be with us. Kathy is a regular at camps around the U.S. and has an incredible system for showing crosspicking patterns throughout the fretboard--highly recommended! Jason and Pharis Romero will hold down the old time duties this week along with Chris Coole, and Mighty Squirrel (Caridwen Spatz, Greg Spatz, Dave Keenan, and Ivan Rosenberg) will be there to add their knowledge of bluegrass in the workshop and to perform their unique brand of stringband music at the concert. No BCBW would be complete without champion fiddler Megan Lynch, and rounding out the lineup are bassist Mick Nicholson, perenial camp favourite Chris Stevens, the Shuswap's own Gene Bretecher of "Banjo Holiday" fame, and mandolin/guitar phenom James Whittall. And leading our famous Slow Pitch Jam this week is Sue Malcolm!
Please see the Performers/Seminars page to find out more about our amazing seminar leaders. It's sure to be one of our best workshops, and we hope you'll join us to make our 21st annual workshop an event to remember!
Our official first day of registration is Monday, Feb. 22 at 9:00 AM sharp. Please don't contact Sorrento Centre until then, as they won't be prepared to answer any questions or register you until that time. Camp does not fill up on the first day of registration, but certain popular seminars probably will, so mark this day and time on your calendar, get the number in your speed dial, and that'll improve your chances of getting into the seminar of your choice!
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