Mountain Music Teacher's Retreat
May 10, 2024 @ 9:00AM — May 11, 2024 @ 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Cowan Community Center: 81 Sturgill Br Whitesburg, KY 41858 Get Directions
Mountain Music Teacher's Retreat
Passing down Kentucky's traditional music and dance for 23 years, Cowan Creek Mountain Music School's most experienced and inspiring faculty will present workshops in teaching old time music and calling square dances. Music teachers of both youth and adults, and advanced musicians who aspire to teach, will gain skills, confidence and new teaching methods. Spend a spring weekend in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky at the Cowan Community Center ... LEARN new teaching techniques and expand your repertoire of teachable tunes... EXPERIENCE square dances at Cowan and Carcassonne and maybe... CALL your first dance!
The Cowan Community Center proudly presents our first Mountain Music Teachers’ Retreat, Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th 2024. The Retreat will include workshops on how to get your students off to a good start in old time fiddle, banjo, guitar, mountain dulcimer and singing. Experienced dancers can also learn square dance calling. The workshops will be led by some of the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School’s most experienced and inspiring teachers, including John Harrod, Randy Wilson and Sarah Kate Morgan. Anyone who teaches or aspires to teach Kentucky’s traditional music in their own community will gain practical skills and confidence. Teaching assistants, private teachers, public school music teachers and musicians serving nonprofits such as after-school programs, libraries and museums are all encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen your instructional methods and repertoire.
The Cowan Community Center, which features a beautiful wood dance floor and shady grounds for jamming, is located 6 miles outside Whitesburg, Kentucky in the shadow of Pine Mountain.Tuition is $100 and includes workshops, meals and a square dance each night where dance calling students can practice their new skills. Scholarships are available thanks to a generous bequest from Nancy and Harvey McClellan and South Arts.
Teaching Master Artists:
Randy Wilson
The First Banjo Lesson, Beginning Square Dance Calling (with Will Bowing), Leading Play Party Games for Kids
John Harrod
Teaching Bowing for Ky Tunes, Selecting and Preparing Ky Tunes for Beginning & Early Intermediate Students
Art Mize
The First Fiddle Lesson, The First Guitar Lesson
Diane Timmons
Teaching Vocal Technique for Traditional Music, Teaching Mountain Harmony Singing,
Carla Gover
Teaching via the Internet
John Haywood
Introducing Alternate Picking Styles
Sarah Kate Morgan
Teaching dulcimer to adults/kids
Visit: www.cowancreekmusic.org for details.