May 24, 2018
Thank you for stopping by and visiting Dittyville!
Summer festival and camp season is here! Carl and I will be teaching at several great music camps from now through fall. In June we will both teach at the first Mount Airy Old-Time Music Retreat – a camp that takes place in Veterans’ Park and runs concurrently with the Mount Airy Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers Convention. Should be fun! Then Erynn is off to teach the fiddle track at Midwest Banjo Camp in Michigan and we both teach at Kaufman Kamp in Maryville TN – a stellar time.
Later in June Erynn heads to Cowan Creek Mountain Music School in Kentucky.
The highlight of July of course is Swannanoa Old-Time Week and there is still space in some of the classes. Carl is teaching mandolin & guitar. Erynn is teaching fiddle-from-scratch so if you’ve always wanted to learn now is the time to start. No experience necessary! In August we are excited to heading to British Columbia, Canada to teach at two of our favorite camps: Sunshine Coast and Saltspring Island Fiddleworks! Then we plan to take a wilderness excursion and visit the Haida Gwaii islands. It has been on Erynn’s bucket list for 20 years with gorgeous landscapes a-plenty with cultural tours and totems by the Haida First Peoples.
Tune into our Concert Window online workshops (fiddle, banjo, mando, guitar) that we are giving once a month on www.concertwindow.com You can watch from the comfort of your own home and they are cheap – minimum donation $10. They were so much fun this winter we decided to keep them going through the summer months too.
When we get a few free moments we are starting to work on an original tune book (Erynn) and a mandolin instructional book (Carl). We are slow but getting there J
Hope we will see many of you at these camps or at our favorite old-time music festivals in Mount Airy, NC, Elk Creek, VA, Clifftop, WV, and of course Galax, VA! We’ are also opening for the Kruger Bros. at the Blue Ridge Music Center (June), playing the Mountains of Music Homecoming (The Crooked Road, VA) and returning to play the Doswell State Fair (VA). Come join us at one or more of these great events.
Take care and hope you have a great musical summer!
Sincerely, Erynn and Carl
