Traditional Folk Music Group Classes and Ensembles
Upcoming Classes
Summer 2021 Tuesday Fiddle Tune Classes
4:15-5:15 pm: kids and teens
6:15-7:15: Adults
Build your fiddle tune repertoire and learn how to play tunes with style in a group!
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Summer 2021 Monday Night Fiddle
Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm
Intermediate adults learn tunes from Celtic, French Canadian, Cape Breton, and New England Contra Dance traditions.
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Black Dots Boot Camp
February 9 - April 27
Gain the skills to lift a basic tune off of the page and into your voice or instrument.
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Slow Jams
Online: April 23, May 7, June 4
Outdoors: May 21, June 18, July 23, August 13
Play along to your favorite fiddle tunes at a gentle tempo.
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English Country Dance Music Sessions
Second and Fourth Sundays
UVMC English Country Dance Instrumental Music sessions provide a friendly, flexible and spontaneous small ensemble setting for beginning, intermediate to experienced players of a variety of traditional instruments.
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Beginning Fiddle Parts 1 & 2
Part 1 Fall: September 15-December 8
Part 2 Spring: February 2-May 4
Beginning adults start with the very basics: how to hold the fiddle and bow with clean, relaxed technique that fits your body, how to “hear” and remember a tune.
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Theory and Composition for Traditional Musicians
Wednesdays 7-8:30 pm
Students will compose tunes and discuss elements of music theory that relate to the compositions.
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Monday Night Fiddle
Spring: February 1-May 17
Fall: September 14-December 7
Learn tunes and styles from Celtic, French Canadian, Cape Breton, and New England Contra Dance traditions.
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Beginning Guitar Parts 1 & 2
Spring, Part 2: February 2-May 11
Fall, Part 1: September 15-January 5
Participants 16 and up develop their skills to confidently play through complete songs and get comfortable playing music with others.
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Continuing Fiddle
Fall: September 15-December 8
Tuesdays 7-8 pm*
For both advanced beginner adult fiddlers who want to expand their repertoire/upgrade their chops and classical violinists who want to try out traditional vocabulary and improvisation.
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Intermediate Group Guitar
Mondays 6-7 pm
Fall: September 14-January 4
Group guitar class for intermediate players who want to strengthen improvisation skills, fretboard knowledge and more.
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Kids Beginner Ukulele
Nils Fredland will teach the ukulele basics -- holding the instrument, tuning, strumming, and learning chords and basic music theory.
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Adult Beginner Ukulele
Learn the ukulele basics...holding the instrument, tuning, strumming, and building your knowledge of chords and basic music theory.
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Trad Music Ensembles
Thursdays 7-8:30 pm
Adult ensemble class exploring group performance and musicianship featuring traditional tunes from North America, the British Isles, and Northern Europe.
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