Guitar | Lindsay McCaw | Intermediate/Advanced | Period 1 | Week 3 (July 20-25, 2025)
Riley Puckett is and was a much-emulated guitarist in the old-time world. He famously played with Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers and had his own career as a songster. His playing was bold with interesting bass runs and little bits of pizazz while remaining within the simple old-time style from his era. If you play guitar, studying Riley Puckett’s playing will give you a great foundation for some standard tunes and ideas for how to add a little bit of interest to your playing without going overboard. We will take apart some of his guitar backups and learn to play some of his licks and runs. We may also look at some of his great songs. Make old time guitar interesting while digging into the playing and story of one of the great and creative musicians who made old time music amazing.
About the Instructor
Lindsay McCaw is a musician and puppeteer who lives in Detroit, MI. She has been playing fiddle, banjo, guitar, and Hawaiian guitar for two decades. She has several music projects in Detroit including “The Boblo Islanders”. She is a founding member of the Detroit Square Dance Society and The Corn Potato String Band, and has called square dances and taught American folk dance all over the world. She is a two-time winner of the Minneapolis Jug Band Contest and four-time first-place winner of the Sheffield Field Days Fiddle contest in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
As a puppeteer, Lindsay has performed and created puppet shows with groups all over the US, Europe and Asia. She spent years as a staff member with well-known puppet companies such as Bread and Puppet Theatre in Glover, VT and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.
She co-founded a company called “Flying Cardboard Theater” who build and perform puppet shows and produce the Detroit Contastoria Fest. She also currently works with Detroit Puppet Company.