Workshops and Hosted Jams
Included with the All Access Wristband
(Check this page often for updates!)
Presenters
Guitar – Tyler Grant
Fiddle – Annie Staninec and Dennis Fetchet
Old Time – Geff and Masha Crawford
Banjo – Julio Boysenberry
Slow Jam – Julio Boysenberry
Gospel Jams – Sandy DeVera
Bluegrass Bass – To be announced
Vocal Workshop – To be announced
Workshops
Guitar – The Heartbeat of the Jam with Tyler Grant
Tyler Grant, National Flatpicking Champion, renowned guitarist, singer, educator, and songwriter. Many Great 48 jammers know Tyler from his YouTube and Facebook livestreams “Tyler Grant’s Playalong Bluegrass Jams” with over 230 archived videos of slow, mid-tempo, and fast jams for practice at home.
Tyler’s thirty-year music career started when he toured with Abigail Washburn, Adrian Young & Little Sadie, and April Verch. He then joined the Drew Emmitt Band, which evolved into the Emmitt/Nershi Band. After seven years in Nashville, TN, he moved to Colorado to found the Cosmic Americana band Grant Farm® in 2010. After five albums, and hundreds of concerts and festivals, the band sought new directions during the “Great Pause” of 2020.
Those new directions included Tyler becoming a river rafting guide and hosting musical raft adventures which have inspired his upcoming solo release, The Flatpicker. When not on the road, the stage, or the river, Tyler keeps up with students on ArtistWorks and TrueFire. Tyler spends most of his time in Colorado and California, searching for that perfect combination of song and story.
Photo by Jessie Bell Photography
Bluegrass Fiddle/Twin Fiddle Workshop –
Annie Staninec and Dennis Fetchet
Annie makes her living performing, teaching, and recording bluegrass fiddle. She has taught at many camps around the country including CBA Music Camp, Kaufman Kamp, Sore Fingers, and Rockygrass Academy. She is a full-time member of the Kathy Kallick Band and Whiskey Deaf, and she has toured with numerous other bands including John Reischman & the Jaybirds and Rod Stewart. Dennis has been an icon in the SoCal bluegrass community since the early 1970’s and has played in numerous bands including the Wild Hickory Nuts, Bluegrass Cardinals, Byron Berline’s LA Fiddle Band, Hoyt Axton, and a full-time 25-year stint with Billy Hill & The Hillbillies at Disneyland.
Photo by David K. Cupp
Learn an Old-time Fiddle Tune
Geff and Masha Crawford play together as the duo “Old Soles”, a celebration of traditional music that doesn’t take itself too seriously. They’ve been playing old-time fiddle and clawhammer banjo for more years than they like to admit, performing and teaching at the CBA Music Camp for over 10 years, the Strawberry Music Festival for more than 20, plus hundreds of barn dances, pubs, restaurants, wineries, weddings, and at least two grocery store openings.
Geff has a huge repertoire of both fiddle tunes and songs, and has shared stages, music, friendship, and laughter with folks like Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Tom Paley, Byron Berline, Tracy Schwarz, Earl Murphy, Franklin George, Walt Koken, Clare Milliner, Dan Gellert, and others. Masha was one of the founders of the Chicago Barn Dance Company, studied folklore and ethnomusicology in graduate school, and has been teaching and performing across the US and Europe since… well, let’s just say that several years were spent in a horse-drawn wagon. Is that “old-timey” enough for you?
After many years of separate musical wanderings, fate and fiddles brought them together, and Geff & Masha have been making beautiful, toe-tapping, driving, energetic, red-hot, and adjective-laden, traditional music, together ever since.
~ facebook.com/oldsoles
Banjo – Intro to Major Pentatonics with Julio Boysenberry
Julio Boysenberry is a treasured mainstay of the Bakersfield Great 48. A credentialed teacher, Julio teaches Scruggs, Reno, Adcock, Stanley, & Bill Keith styles. He has led slow jam sessions and done numerous banjo workshops at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival as well as at the Great 48.
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming class
ONE, three-hour Wernick Method Jam Class will be offered FOUR times.
$60 per session (not included with the all-access wristband)
Take any of the sessions and in three hours you will learn basic jam etiquette. how to join a bluegrass jam, how to take solos in a jam and how to sing with a jam. You will have plenty of practice time with personalized coaching to get you “making music with friends, and friends with music.”
Multiple jamming opportunities exist throughout the Bakersfield Great 48 so you can go from class directly to jamming!
Each class is limited in size to provide personalized coaching. Register early! Class fee per person is $60.
Spaces limited so register early!
For more info, contact Mike Thomas 703-727-8491, Banjoworx@gmail.com.