Banjo | Cathy Fink | Beginning/Intermediate | Period 1 | Week 3 (July 21-26, 2024)
You’re past the total beginner stage, can play a few tunes and are ready to become a solid intermediate player. We will focus on improving technique, tone, speed, learning by ear and the ability to join in a jam session by finding the “corner notes” of tunes or playing chordal backup. We’ll explore G tuning, Double C tuning, G modal tuning and other tunings. All of this is done through learning and dissecting repertoire, with lots of time for in class practice.
About the Instructor
Cathy Fink has been a touring, recording, teaching folk artist for fifty years. Her musical specialties include old-time country, bluegrass, swing and various other
roots styles. Cathy is a master of the five-string clawhammer banjo style and plays guitar, ukulele and fiddle. Her album, “Banjo Haiku” has been hailed a classic and
her album “Banjo Talkin’” received a GRAMMY nomination. She was the first woman to win the West Virginia State Old Time Banjo Contest (1980) and the Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival Banjo Contest (2018). Cathy is a two- time GRAMMY Award winner with partner, Marcy Marxer. Together they have released fifty albums. Their career includes tours of the US, Canada, Japan, China, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, The British Isles, Israel and South Africa. Cathy & Marcy consider themselves “Social Music Conductors”, encouraging folks of all ages to celebrate music together.
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