FEBRUARY 2023 DRAFT SCHEDULE
All times EST (i.e. New York City, USA), and subject to change
SATURDAY, FEB 11, 2023
1:00-2:00: Class 1
2:30-3:30: Class 2
4:00-5:00: Class 3
5:30-7:00: Special Guest: Jens Kruger
7:00-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert: Jake Blount
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom
SUNDAY, FEB 12, 2023
12:00-1:00: Zoom Office Hours
1:00-2:00: Class 4
2:30-3:30: Class 5
4:00-5:00: Class 6
5:30-7:00: Special Guest #2
7:00-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert TBD
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom
REMEMBER: All classes will be recorded and posted on a password-protected site after the weekend for deeper study.
Previous Banjo Summit Schedules
FEBRUARY 2022 SCHEDULE
All times EST (i.e. New York City, USA), and subject to change
FRIDAY, FEB 11, 2022
1:00-2:00: Jayme Stone: Style and Strut
2:30-3:30: Adam Larrabee: Playing Songs and Fiddle Tunes in all 12 Keys
4:00-5:00: Kristin Scott Benson: JD Crowe’s ”Blue Ridge Cabin Home”
5:30-6:30: Eli Gilbert: How to Transcribe Music to the Banjo
6:30-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert: Joe Troop
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by Kristin Scott Benson)
SATURDAY, FEB 12, 2022
12:00-1:00: Zoom Office Hours
1:00-2:00: Bill Evans: Compositional Techniques
2:30-3:30: BB Bowness: Using Pentatonics in Improvising
4:00-5:00: Joe Troop: Tunes from “Borrowed Time”
5:30-7:00: Special Guest: Noam Pikelny
7:00-8:30: Dinner Break
8:30-9:30: Concert: Kaia Kater
9:30-11:00: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by Keith Billik of Picky Fingers Podcast)
SUNDAY, FEB 13, 2022
12:00-1:00: Zoom Office Hours
1:00-2:00: Wes Corbett: Sam Bush’s tune Sapporo
2:30-3:30: Kristin Scott Benson: Ocean of Diamonds: 3/4 time in the Key of F
4:00-5:00: Jayme Stone: Singing with the Banjo
5:30-6:30: Adam Larrabee: Barry Harris’s 6th/Diminished Scale Harmony
6:30-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert: John Bullard — Preludes
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by BB Bowness)
MAY 2021
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2021
12:45pm-1:00: Orientation and Intros
1:00-2:00: New Rolls, New Settings with Jayme Stone
2:30-3:30: Reworking your own Works with Tony Trischka
4:00-5:00: Irish Tunes: Variations and Ornamentation with Seamus Egan & Jake Schepps
5:30-6:30: Making Tangible the Intangibles of Scruggs-style Banjo with Kristin Scott Benson
6:30-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert: Next Generation: Max Allard / Nora Brown
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by Kristin Scott Benson)
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021
12:00-1:00: Zoom Office Hours
1:00-2:00: A Collection of Ideas on Improvising and Composing with Wes Corbett & Tony Trischka
2:30-3:30: Right-hand Technique for Expression and Improvisation with Ben Krakauer
4:00-5:00: On What Do We Improvise? with Adam Larrabee & Bert Ligon
5:30-7:00: Béla Fleck
7:00-8:30: Dinner Break
8:30-9:30: Concert: Chris Pandolfi—Trance Banjo
9:30-11:00: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by Eli Gilbert)
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021
12:00-1:00: Zoom Office Hours
1:00-2:00: Fiddle Tune Improvisation using Chord Tones with Eli Gilbert
2:30-3:30: Malian Music on the Banjo with Jayme & Sam Dickey
4:00-5:00: Developing "Sweep” Arpeggios with Adam Larrabee
5:30-6:30: The Music of the Sam Bush Band with Wes Corbett
6:30-8:00: Dinner Break
8:00-9:00: Concert: The Foreign Landers with Tabitha & David Benedict
9:00-10:30: Afterhours Zoom (hosted by Max Allard)
DECEMBER 2020
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
1230pm-1pm: Orientation and Intros
1-2pm: Wes Corbett: Fingerbusters
230-330pm: Adam Larrabee: Digging Deeper into Triads
4-5pm: Vibrant Voicings with Jayme Stone
530-630pm: BB Bowness: Learn a Fiddle Tune in Bb with BB
630-8pm: Dinner Break
8-9pm: Wes Corbett Covid-Friendly CD Release Concert
9-10:30 pm: open banjo hang
Saturday, DECEMBER 5
11:30-1230pm: Office Hours
1-2pm: Jayme Stone: Tunesmithing
2:15-3:15pm: Wes Corbett discusses compositions on his new album Cascade
3:30-4:30pm: Adam Larrabee: Jazz Banjo Harmony I: Thinking Pianistically
5pm-630pm: Bela Fleck
630-8pm: Dinner Break
8-9pm: Jake Blount: Banjo Origins & Black Traditions
9-10:30 pm: open banjo hang
Sunday, DECEMBER 6
11:30-1230pm: Office Hours
1-2pm: Adam Larrabee: Jazz Banjo Harmony II: Setting the Standard
230-330pm: Jayme Stone: Strategic Practice
4-5pm: Wes Corbett: Tune Request Hour
530-630pm: Bennett Sullivan: Melodic Fiddle Tunes in the key of G
630-8pm: Dinner Break
8-9pm: Kristen Scott Benson and Wayne Benson House Concert
9-10:30 pm: open banjo hang