Handmade Music School Workshops offer unique learning experiences in music or dance with master teachers at the Floyd Country Store. The workshops are timely, engaging, and dynamic sessions targeted to serve participants with varied interests and goals. Register today for a shorter 1-2 hour workshop, an all-day learning experience, or a multi-day camp!
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June 2019
Join us on Saturday, June 22, 2019 from 4:00-5:00pm for a Flatpicking Guitar Workshop with Wyatt Rice. In this workshop, rhythm guitar master Wyatt Rice will help participants to improve and expand their arsenal of rhythmic backup techniques. Topics to be explored include tone production, cross-picking rhythm, unique bass runs, passing chords, chord substitutions, and chord inversions. Cost is $20.
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The Handmade Music School presents a flatfoot dance workshop on Saturday, June 29, 2019 from 5:00-6:00pm with Martha Spencer from the family-based Whitetop Mountain Band and Larry Sigmon & Martha Spencer. Martha has just come out with a Flatfoot Dancing for Beginners DVD and will be sharing her easy to learn method, with each step broken down, slow and fast. The workshop will also feature a brief history of the dance traditions from Southwest Virginia. Cost is $25.
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The Handmade Music School presents an introductory Clawhammer Banjo Workshop with Andy Buckman on Saturday, July 20, 2019 from 3:00-5:00pm. This workshop is appropriate for beginning and intermediate banjo players who wish to explore the distinctive “mountain” clawhammer banjo style of SW Virginia and NW North Carolina. Andy will emphasize rhythm, backbeat, and drone skills while teaching local dance tunes. Workshop participants can expect to gain a clear understanding of the basic mechanics of an exciting, highly danceable banjo sound that is fun to play! Cost is $30.
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The Handmade Music School presents an introduction to Old Time Fiddle with Kalia Yeagle and Andrew Small on Sunday, July 21, 2019 from 11:00am - 1:00pm. This workshop will be beneficial to beginning and intermediate fiddlers as well as anyone who wishes to gain a foundational understanding of the functional, stylistic, and technical considerations inherent to old time fiddling. Cost is $30.
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