Some of my fondest memories in life have happened at bluegrass jams when the players in the circle are carefully listening to each other and responding to the music as one, when the singer is feeling and delivering the message of the song, and when something magical happens that lifts the moment to a whole other level. THAT is what bluegrass jamming is about and those are the moments I want to share with you at Walker Creek Music Camp this April.

Of course, there are rules and guidelines to jamming. Some of them you may know. Some you may not… yet. And there are some strategies for how to choose songs, how to present them to others, or how to pass solo breaks around the group. Certainly, we’ll cover that as well. But what excites me so much about this class as opposed to other jam classes you might have taken or looked into, is that these topics are simply the introductory topics to get us on to the REAL question at hand: how do we get comfortable in the jam, confident on our instrument, and support others’ musical contributions to create truly magical musical moments together? Those ideas may sound abstract right now but the techniques to achieve them are not. I can show you. You can learn. And you’ll head home a more musical and mindful player than you arrived, I guarantee it. I can’t wait to make sweet music with you!