Singing | Jesse Milnes | All Levels | Period 2 | Week 3 (July 21-26, 2024)
I’ll teach you a handful of ballads and traditional songs from around West Virginia. Some of these will be in an unaccompanied style, but if the class is interested, we can also work on constructing a banjo or guitar accompaniment for some of them.
About the Instructor
Jesse Milnes grew up in the world of West Virginia old-time music (his father is fiddler and folklorist Gerry Milnes). Though he is widely known as a fiddle player, Jesse’s first instrument was a guitar and he has developed a personal style of finger-picking, drawing on influences from blues to bluegrass to country. He has played fiddle and guitar with many country, old-time and bluegrass bands over the years, including the Sweetback Sisters, a country band for which he was also a main songwriter. Jesse has won many local and regional fiddle contests, including the WV State Folk Festival in Glenville, WV, and the Ed Haley Fiddle Contest in Ashland, KY. Jesse and his wife, Emily Miller, recently toured in Australia and California and recorded their first album as a duo.