Bluegrass Weeks

2008 Camp Dates

Week 1: June 22-27

Week 2: July 27- August 1

Escape to the beautiful hills of Tennessee to study with the world's finest bluegrass players. In this fun and intensive workshop, students choose an instrument for small group instruction and jamming.

Afternoons bring elective classes and band lab, where students are coached in playing and singing for the camper concert at the Station Inn in Nashville.

NashCamp's gourmet meals are catered by the Mad Platter Restaurant of Nashville; comfortable lodging is provided at the Drouillard House, a restored Victorian Era mansion surrounded by newly constructed log cabins. And, of course, there is a cozy campfire pit for nightly jamming!

Total enrollment is limited to insure small, intimate classes.

In addition to morning instrumental class instruction, students take elective workshops in the afternoons.  For example, these electives have been offered at previous NashCamps:

• Songwriting
• The Nashville Number System
• Care of stringed instruments
• Improvising on the melody
• Instrument setup
• Building repertoire / How to practice to get better faster
• Harmony siniging
• Music as a business
• Bass petting zoo
• Music theory for Bluegrass pickers
• and more!!