Blues Workshop & Festival faculty for 2012

AlohaJoe

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Looks like a great lineup this year!

The faculty roster is here::
http://centrum.org/blues-festival-artist-faculty/
Each year, hundreds of blues musicians descend on Fort Worden State Park, turning the historic facility in to a giant resonating chamber for acoustic blues music. The Park comes alive, and so does each musician who makes it happen.

Indeed, the cornerstone of the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is the weeklong workshop, July 29 – August 5, 2012, where participants live and play with the bearers of acoustic blues traditions.

Led by Artistic Director Daryl Davis, the week is designed to make you a better musician–and does it ever–but it is so much more. Day and night, you’ll hang out, jam and swap tunes with interesting, accomplished, and fun musicians from around the nation.

This generous community shares your passion and energy, and we can almost guarantee that by the end of the week you AND your playing will be heading into directions you didn’t predict just a few days earlier.

Daily classes are offered in Piedmont style fingerpicking, blues guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, blues piano, bass, blues singing, and gospel choir, all taught by masters of the traditions.
More info here: http://centrum.org/port-townsend-acoustic-blues-festival-workshop/
 

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I think so but we're still negotiating... we really need the R&R after a rough patch. I'll try to post some pics I took last year.
 

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...took a short clinic in a local music emporium ( :wink: ) with Mary Flower, she is very, very good, a fine teacher and performer.

The name Elijah Wald is very familiar...must be from the Boston Globe and also I did read his book on Dave Van Ronk...boy, I'll bet he has some material!
 

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Bill Ashton said:
...took a short clinic in a local music emporium ( :wink: ) with Mary Flower, she is very, very good, a fine teacher and performer.

The name Elijah Wald is very familiar...must be from the Boston Globe and also I did read his book on Dave Van Ronk...boy, I'll bet he has some material!
She's great, and Elijah teaches (with music and slides) a Blues history class that's remarkable. He's written a a number of books on Blues history... you'd love it Bill!
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I very much enjoyed Elijah Wald's book on Dave Van Ronk, Mayor of McDougal Street.

http://www.elijahwald.com/vanronk.html

(Van Ronk, BTW, owned two virtually identical Guild D-50s. His second was for whenever his main one happened to be in the shop!)

Elijah's book on Robert Johnson -- Escaping the Delta -- is also highly recommended.

http://www.elijahwald.com/rjohnson.html

I saw Wald backing up Howard ("Louie Bluie") Armstrong in the Boston area many times.

Glenn//.
 
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