Tentative Daily Schedule

Whether you learn by ear or notation, bring your instruments and voice to participate in focused music workshops in both daily classes and special one-time sessions. Or join a like-minded pick-up group and jam! It’s wall-to-wall music sessions and workshops throughout the day and evening. You don’t have to be a dancer or a musician to enjoy the full music track at AmWeek.

Current plans include:

Singing with Susie Burke: Tradition forward — dive into an interactive singing session, or let your voice be heard in Susie’s all-comers Community Chorale.

Ukulele Orchestra with Max Newman: The Ukulele Orchestra will be led by the shining principle that you don’t need to know much about playing the ukulele to have a blast with it. Bring your uke if you have one!

Vertical and Horizontal Keyboard with Nicholas Williams: The language of music is universal — Nicholas will include back up piano (or accordian) for both American and Québéquois tunes.

Mandolin with David Surette: Master mandolin player David will take you into the intricacies of both accompaniment and melody in his deep, clear, and concise manner.

American Fiddle Tunes with Rodney Miller: Find out how to play some dance magic. Learn techniques of bow and fingers, tunes from the past to present in contradance tune repertoire, fiddle tune improvisation, and more.

Québéquois Fiddling with Pascal Gemme: Come teach your fiddle to sing Québéquois! Pascal’s clear teaching style and ability to convey stylistic nuances particular to the genre make this class accessible to many levels.

Guitar Styles with a Québéquois Flair with Yann Falquet: Yann offers accessible guitar rhythms and style to accompany Québéquois tunes. DADGAD and more!

Red Case Tunes with Stuart & Matt Kenney: An all inclusive music workshop — bring instruments, voices, percussion toys and more to integrate original tunes, spoken word, movement, and rhythms. Come groove with us!

Write that Tune with David Surette: Get that tune waiting inside you out into the world.

Slow Jam: For those not ready for the Open Band, the Slow Jam is for you. We'll play well-known tunes at a stately tempo, and will learn some easy tunes you can add to your repertoire.

And of course, Laura and Max will conduct the infamous Camper Band workshop!

Keep an eye on this page for more details as the program develops. With such an outstanding musical staff, we'll have lots for everyone.