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Banjo

Maine Fiddle camp is NOT just for fiddles. We have some of the top banjo players in the northeast teaching in a variety of styles.. Check out the instructors (below) and when you’re ready to sign up go to the registration page!

June Weekend I

  • John Gawler

    John plays 5-string banjo, guitar, and piano and is the best bottom feeder in the business! When he isn’t smiling and putting on a roof, he is smiling and singing a Woody Guthrie song, accompanied by his wife, Ellen Gawler, or one of his daughters in the Gawler Family Band. Besides doing workshops, John helps host the camper concerts.
    282 Guptill Rd. Belgrade ME O4917 207-495-2267

June Week

  • Jennifer Armstrong

    Visit Jennifer’s website (http://www.jenniferarmstrong.com/).
    233 Poors Mill Road Belfast ME 04915 207-322-2265

  • Sara Grey

    Sara Grey has been playing banjo for over 58 years.
    Her dad, from northern NH, played fiddle and he took Sara down south when she was young back in the early 50’s to watch some of the “old boys” play and sing. She took that knowledge back up to NH where she grew up,and played for square dances when she was still in school. She has been playing ever since….dividing her time between the states and Scotland. She has taught wherever she has lived and at many traditional music camps and schools. (more…)

June Weekend II

  • Stuart Kenney

    One of the most in demand upright bass, and five-string banjo players on the US contradance circuit, Stuart Kenney’s regional musical interests sweep from Southwest Louisiana to Acadia. He has a long career in many traditional music genres. His interest in Quebecois music formed through the fiddling of Lisa Ornstein, and performances by La Bottine Souriante. The inclusion of French Canadian music into the living tradition of New England contradance music caught his attention early on. (more…)

August Week I

  • Jeff Lewis

    Jeff Lewis is a native to Waldo County and has spent the greater portion of his life immersed in music, specializing on mandolin in a diverse range of styles. He attended MFC as a student for the first time in 2005. After a stint studying mandolin at Berklee College of Music in fall 2010, Jeff relocated to Portland, Maine to pursue music professionally in performance and composing, in addition to continued intense focus on the mandolin. You can hear Jeff playing with Bennett Konesni and Mia Friedman as Fireside, and with Konesni and David Lewis as Free Seedlings. Jeff can be reached at 46 Turner St. Portland, Maine, 207-930-0009 or visit him on line at jeffersonlewis.bandcamp.com or myspace.com/dingomandolin.

August Week II

  • Stuart Kenney

    One of the most in demand upright bass, and five-string banjo players on the US contradance circuit, Stuart Kenney’s regional musical interests sweep from Southwest Louisiana to Acadia. He has a long career in many traditional music genres. His interest in Quebecois music formed through the fiddling of Lisa Ornstein, and performances by La Bottine Souriante. The inclusion of French Canadian music into the living tradition of New England contradance music caught his attention early on. (more…)

  • Carter Logan

    Carter plays banjo with his band “Jerks of Grass” and also plays for dances. He has a unique repertoire and we are pleased to have him on staff at camp
    www.jerksofgrass.com

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2021 Dates(Tentative):

All camp sessions for 2020 have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Here are the tentative 2021 dates.  We should know by the end of March, 2021 if the August in-person camps will be held.

August Week I – August 8-13, 2021
August Week II – August 15-20, 2021

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New Tunes Posted for 2020-2021:

  • A Hundred Pipers
  • After the Ball
  • Britches Full Of Stitches
  • Canadian Reel
  • Daleigh
  • Flop Eared Mule
  • Ganglot från Appelbo
  • Have You Been to Ireland?
  • Highland Laddie
  • In the Good Old Summertime
  • Indian Reel
  • Irish American Waltz
  • La Moquine
  • Maggie Brown
  • Monk’s March
  • Moonlight Bay
  • Quebec Reel
  • Rain
  • Saponette
  • Spotted Pony
  • Wait Till the Sunshines, Nellie

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