Calling all Banjo players: You're invited to join Banjoaficionado*  Bill Evans, for a Bluegrass Banjo workshop! This three-hour workshop will be a “hands-on and let’s play” kind of session with practical and easy-to-understand tips and skills that you can immediately use in your next jam session or band rehearsal to get a bonafide bluegrass banjo sound. Topics to be covered include the role of the banjo in a jam session and how to support different instruments and singers effectively with vamping, roll patterns, and up-the-neck techniques. You’ll also learn what kind of licks to use where, classic kick-offs and endings, navigate various keys using the capo, waltz time and fiddle tune backup, and much more. Bill’s group teaching method keeps everyone involved regardless of experience level. Tab samples will be provided but it is not necessary to read tabs to get a lot out of this workshop. Audio or video recording is encouraged. Bring your banjo and let’s pick!

Please note, this workshop is designed for advanced beginners-experienced players, but all are welcome to attend. You must bring your own Banjo. This is a 3 hr workshop from 11-2, with two 75 instructional blocks. There's a short break for snacks and time to chat with Bill 1 on 1.

About Bill:
Shenandoah Valley resident and Banjo For Dummies author Bill Evans is one of the most experienced bluegrass banjo teachers in the world, having taught thousands of players of all ability levels. Bill is a 2024 inductee into the American Banjo Museum’s Hall of Fame and is a Steve Martin Banjo Prize recipient. He has performed with David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Tony Trischka and Darol Anger, among many others, and over the years his students have included Chris Pandolfi (The Infamous Stringdusters) and Wes Corbett (Sam Bush Band). He currently tours with his solo show The Banjo in America and with the all-star supergroup California Bluegrass Reunion. Bill has produced nine instructional video projects for Homespun Music, AcuTab Publications and the Murphy Method and he is the co-author of Mel
Bay’s Parking Lot Picker’s Songbook: Banjo Edition. He hosts five online banjo courses for Peghead Nation, produces his own banjo camps in New Mexico, and teaches one-on-one banjo lessons online and from his home near Staunton. His latest recording is Things Are Simple, which Bluegrass Unlimited reviewed as “more than a masterpiece, it’s a celebration.” He played for the Front Porch at Potter’s Craft Cider earlier this year with banjo icon Alan Munde.

www.billevansbanjo.com
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