Alaska Folk Festival

Workshop Schedule - 41^st Alaska Folk Festival

	Main Stage
Sat. 10 - 11:30AM	Mic Use and Stagecraft Learn how to use Mics, DIs, Stage monitors effectively Lucy Peckham, Rick Miller & Mike Sakarias

	Hammond Room	Hickel Room	Egan Room	Sheffield Ballroom	Cultural Center (JACC)
10:30 to Noon		Beginning Ukulele Kid Burfl		Family Concert
Noon to 1:30		Finger Picking Blues Guitar Pat Henry Learn to finger pick and sing some blues	Jam Sesson Primer for Fiddle Players Barbara Collins	Couple Dance John Laskey	Country Song Swap/Jam and Waltz/Two Step Tutorial Ava Honey, Caroline Oakley, Reeb Wilms Guitar, Fiddle, Mandolin and Bass
1:30 to 3:00	Banjo Panel Katie Henry, Paul Disdier, Katya Kirsch	Intro to Open Tunings for Guitar Tracy Spring We'll explore open D, open G and perhaps others. Be prepared to radically re-tune and try out some of my open tuning guitar arrangements of well-known songs.	Mandolin Guest Artist: Byron Berline	Instrument Swap Buy, Sell, Trade	Family Square Dance Ava Honey Bliss
3:00 to 4:30		Harmonica Improvisation Grant Dermody Improve your fluidity over an 8 or 12 bar blues. Intermediate/Advanced. Bring your “A” harp.	Double Fiddle Guest Artists: Byron Berline & Greg Burgess Emphasizing double fiddle	Instrument Swap Buy, Sell, Trade	Marimba Workshop Betsy Sims

	Hammond Room	Hickel Room	Egan Room	Sheffield Ballroom
10:30 to Noon
Noon to 1:30		Banjo Guest Artist: Billy Perry Three finger melodic style pertaining to bluegrass and Western swing music.	Songwriting-The Essay Method Tracy Spring I'll show you the -write an essay, adapt the story into lyric, and then into a musical setting- approach. Hands-on, for first time and experienced songwriters	English Country Dance Odette Edgar Experience this lively folk dance, with music and figures that date back to the 1650's. Live music by the Earl Grey Dance Band.
1:30 to 3:00	Singing Games for Kids & Adults Katie Henry	Mandolin Charlie Hunt Will present the concept of picking discipline, differentiating between reels and jigs.	Western Swing Band Lab, Bring instruments, (Fiddle Guitar Mandolin Bass Banjo) Guest Artists	Western Swing Music Tune & Jam Session Byron Berline Band - Guest Artists
3:00 to 4:30	Return of the Psaltry Dennis Townsend	Clarence White style Guitar Guest Artist: Jim Fish