Fiddleheads Acoustic Music Camp
September 7-9, 2012
Contoocook, New Hampshire
we're not just for fiddlers!
"I have been to many music camps and music festivals, and this one is the most fun, most all inclusive fun fun fun of any."
"Most enjoyable musical experience of the year."
--Fiddleheads Camp Attendees
Join us in September for a weekend
of music, learning, and fun! Now in our 15th year!
The purpose of the Fiddleheads Music Camp is to teach and inspire musicians to play with each other in a band setting. Workshops on Saturday and Sunday mornings teach ear training skills, tunes, techniques of different styles and improvising tools. We form bands of various styles, practice playing with others and perform in an energy-filled Saturday evening concert. Jamming of various styles happens Friday and Saturday evenings. From blues to bluegrass, jigs to jazz, cajun to country and more!
We hire coaches who are not only good musicians but who are also good teachers and have played in numerous bands of various styles.
Featured Guest Coach
Our 2012 Featured Guest Coach is Matt Glaser, director of the American Roots Music Program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is a master fiddler who has really studied (and we mean study!) many styles and he is an amazing teacher with a great sense of fun. He has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Ralph Stanley and Bob Dylan among many others. We are honored to have him join us.
Fiddleheads Acoustic Music Camp | PO Box 62 | Lochmere, NH 03252 | fiddleheads_nh@yahoo.com | Ph: 603-661-1981
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Matt Glaser is the Artistic Director of the American Roots Music Program at the Berklee College of Music, and prior to that, had been chairman of the String Department at Berklee for 28 years. Matt is the first and only recipient of the Stephane Grappelli Memorial Award, "In recognition of his significant contribution to the teaching and playing of improvised string music in America," presented by the American String Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association. He has performed widely in a variety of idioms ranging from jazz to bluegrass to early music.
He has published four books on contemporary violin styles including "Jazz Violin" co-authored with the late Stephane Grappelli. He has written for many newspapers and music magazines including The Village Voice, Strings, and Acoustic Musician. He has performed with Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, Bob Dylan, J Geils, Leo Kottke, Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Kenny Werner, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, the Waverly Consort, Fiddle Fever, and most recently with Wayfaring Strangers--a band that fuses jazz and folk music. The Boston Herald called him "possibly America's most versatile violinist."
Matt served on the board of advisors of the Ken Burns' Jazz Documentary and appears in the film as a talking head. Matt served on the board of directors of Chamber Music America and the American String Teachers Association.
Matt has performed at the White House and at Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor as part of Stephane Grappelli's 80th birthday concert. He has taught at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, University of Miami, American String Teacher Association conferences, International Association of Jazz Educator conferences, and many others.
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Camp Methodios on Clement Pond
