The goal of this class is to help students expand their repertoire while honing the skills required to play with others and be creative while doing it. Each session students will learn 1 or 2 songs or fiddle tunes from the bluegrass repertoire. The class will go over basic lead playing and accompaniment to get started, and offer some ideas to take it a little further with embellishments, improvisation, kickoffs and endings.

Materials will be provided for guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin.

Ages 14+

Tunes may include, but are not limited to:

• Salt Creek
• Salt Spring
• Rose of Old Kentucky
• Blackberry Blossom
• Nellie Kane
• Whiskey before Breakfast
• Dark Hollow
• Forked Dear
• Red Clay Halo
• Big Sciota
• Cherokee Shuffle
• Black Mountain Rag
• Gold Rush
• Red Haired Boy
• Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom
• Bill Cheathum
• Arkansas Traveler
• Liberty
• 8th of January
• Big Sandy River
• The Devils Dream
• Billy in the lowground