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Educational
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Joe Val
Kids Academy
Kids
Jams
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in the Schools
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Bluegrass
Academy Instructors
George
Chapman
George Chapman has played
banjo, guitar and bass, and taught bluegrass music in both the
New England area and the Southern California area since 1967.
He is a former columnist for The Banjo Newsletter andThe
Five String Quarterly. He has been active in leading slow
jams for the BBU for several years, including those at the Joe
Val Festival and Groton jam.
Paul
Dube
For the past 15 years,
Paul Dube has been active as a performer of folk, blues, Irish,
Cajun, Old Timey and bluegrass music on guitar, accordion and
harmonica. He has led the very successful Directed Slow Jam workshops
at the Grey Fox and Joe Val Bluegrass festivals for the past
three years and is looking forward to returning to Grey Fox this
summer. Paul was a founding member of Rhode Island based bands
Hot Water and Swampgrass. Lately, Paul has been playing Accordion
and Harmonica with Kevin Fallon's Gobshites.
Nancy
Harrowitz
Nancy Harrowitz is a bluegrass,
country and swing singer and bass player. She has performed at
local and international festivals, including the European World
of Bluegrass in Kolin, Czech Republic, and taught voice for music
camps including Fiddleheads Camp and Banjo Camp North. Nancy
has developed an approach to teaching bluegrass vocal styles
based on classical vocal training, to demonstrate how bluegrass
sound is produced.
Richard
Stillman
Richard Stillman has been playing banjo for nearly thirty
years, including stints with a number of influential Northeast
bluegrass bands, including the Jersey Travelers (four years,
one album), Southern Rail (four years, two albums), WayStation
(seven years, one CD) and his current band, Adam Dewey and Crazy
Creek (three years, two CDs). He has additional studio recording
credits with New England folk artists John Burrows and John Michaels.
Mr. Stillman was New Jersey banjo champion in 1983 and the 2002
and 2003 New England banjo champion. He is a six-time winner
of the annual banjo contest held at Lowell, Massachusetts (1985-1995),
where he has given the bluegrass banjo workshop every year since
1996.
August
Watters
August Watters
has more than 25 years of experience in both bluegrass and jazz
guitar styles, and is a seasoned professional composer, arranger
and conductor. He is the founder of the New England Mandolin
Ensemble, and director of the Cape Cod Mandolin Camp. He is a professor
at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he teaches ear training
and ensembles. Education: Bachelor of Music, Berklee College
of Music, Summa cum Laude, major in Jazz Composition, 1989. Masters-level
studies in traditional composition completed privately with Harold
Shapero.
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