Voice | Various Instructors | All Levels | Period 4 | Week 2 (July 13-18, 2025)
Each day at 4 p.m., Vocal and Bluegrass Week instructors will offer a variety of one-hour workshops (One-Shots) that any Augusta students can take. Each workshop is just offered one time during the week. These are a great way to meet instructors you haven’t worked with in your weeklong classes and also to try new genres and skills!
Here is the One-Shot schedule for 2025:
Monday
Bal Folk with Bob Walser: Powered by his squeezebox, Bob will offer an hour of dances from a scene rooted in traditional French dance that’s sweeping Europe. It’s a repertoire that stretches from driving to contemplative, and mesmerizing to goofy. No partner or experience necessary, all dances taught.
Jamming 101: Jam Etiquette with Annalee Koehn: Annalee takes you through the various conventions of the singing jams you’re likely to come across during the week – what, when and where to sing and how to share a song.
Ear Training with Emily Eagen: Emily is exactly the person to help demystify intervals and chords and other mysteries of music theory that you may encounter over the week.
Tuesday
Singing on the Grateful Dead with Jefferson Hamer: Jefferson will spend the hour with you singing both the hits and the obscure numbers of this eclectic repertoire with some twists. It’s bound to be fun, wherever you are in your journey with this still-iconic band.
Korovai with Nadia Tarnawsky: Over the hour Nadia will teach you about Ukrainian wedding bread and the songs you sing while making the bread. It’s a two-fer – both songs and a recipe!
Ad-Hoc Harmonies with Flawn Williams: Here Flawn condenses his popular week-long class into a packed hour. You’ll be making all manner of sounds in harmony.
Wednesday
Vocal improvisation and Ad-Libbing with Angie Richardson: Experience the joy of stepping out to make music without a road map. A long-time gospel singer and leader of this week’s gospel choir, Angie will sweep you into singing in ways you might not have imagined.
Banjo Accompaniment with Sara Grey: Sara will demonstrate a variety of useful skills for banjo-playing singers using both frailing and a two-finger style for a diverse selection of songs including songs in 3⁄4 time and blues songs, touching on the use of dynamics and different tunings.
Story Songs with Val Mindel: Here Val shares with you a handful of more recently minted songs that tell a story. Lots of singing. Come prepared to learn on the fly.
Thursday
Singing Shape-note Songs with Penny Anderson: Huge fun. No experience necessary.
Songs in Spanish with Kari Sickenberger: Kari is repeating this one-shot, a favorite from last year, even among singers who didn’t speak Spanish.
Sound and Silence with Abigail Washburn: This one-shot is also back by demand. Come along.
Whistling with Emily Eagen: A champion whistler, Emily will bring you into the weird and wonderful world of whistling and hopefully take you further along on your own whistling journey. And you’ll have the joy of listening to Emily herself.