Guitar
Week has become one of the finest programs of its kind anywhere, staffed by some of the world’s best players and instructors. In 2004, we were awarded a Bronze Medal in the Player’s Choice Awards by the readers of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and in 2008, We took the Silver Medal. Guitarists from across the globe keep coming back year after year.
For 2011, we’ve decided to make it an ‘all guitar, all of the time’ experience. We’ve recruited some exciting new instructors, and several popular staff members from previous years will be returning. We will be offering more classes than ever before in flatpicking and fingerstyle acoustic guitar in all styles for all levels from Beginning to Advanced. Our seventeen world-class instructors, including three Grammy-winning guitarists, will be offering classes in a wide variety of styles ranging from Celtic to Jazz and Blues; and from Contemporary Fingerstyle to traditional Hawaiian Slack Key taught by Patrick Landeza who will once again host his now-legendary Luau at the week’s end. One of the country’s top repairmen, Randy Hughes, will be available for consultations throughout the week. Ed Dodson will again lead slow jams after lunch each day, and our Luthier’s Exhibit will feature some amazing guitars from some of the country’s top builders, including Gerald Sheppard, who has generously offered to build a special 20th Anniversary guitar for us, which will be on display and sold by silent auction. The winning bid will be announced Friday evening at the end of the week, with all profits going to our Youth Scholarship Fund. For more details, visit this page at Gerald’s website: www.sheppardguitars.com. We will offer a variety of Beginning level classes to accommodate those students who aren’t quite ready for the Intermediate to Advanced classes, and, for the first time, we will be offering classes suggested for Advanced players only, so please read the descriptions carefully before you decide where you belong. We want everyone to get the most out of the week. For most of our classes it is recommended that students should play at an Intermediate level: students should have mastered beginning skills, be able to tune their instruments, keep time, play the principal scales cleanly, and know how to play a few tunes with confidence. Guitar Week runs concurrently with our Contemporary
Folk Week, and students may take classes in either program, and this year we are offering even more guitar classes designed for singer/songwriters.
You can view classes here
as well as staff bios. Or go
directly to an individual instructor's bio by clicking on
one of the names to the right.
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