May 20-23, 2021
Instructors include Greg Cahill, Bill Evans, Dave Keenan, Jason Homey, Megan Lynch Chowning, Chris Jones, Natalie Padilla and Tristan Scroggins.
Banjo |
Guitar |
Fiddle |
Mandolin |
Beginner |
Tuition
Tuition includes class instruction, faculty concert, and meals. Meals include: breakfasts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; and lunches and dinners on Friday and Saturday.
- Returning students $325 through November 13;
- $350 for enrollment between November 14 and February 28;
- $375 March 1 and after.
Scholarships
A limited number of youth and adult $175 scholarships are available for students who need financial help to attend camp. Scholarships are awarded based on financial need and dedicated commitment to learning to play bluegrass music. Email idahobluegrasscamp@gmail.com for more information about our scholarship opportunities.
Accommodations
Students are encouraged to stay on campus or at a local hotel in Weiser in order to be able to easily jam with instructors and students late into the night! Contact the National Old Time Fiddle Contest for more information about on-site camping and lodging at 208-484-5034.
COVID POLICY
The health and safety of our students, instructors and staff is our highest concern.
Our plans for hosting the camp in 2021 are entirely dependent on whether an approved vaccine is available and adequately distributed. We will strongly recommend that only those folks who have had the disease, had the vaccine, or tested positive for antibodies (had the disease but asymptomatic) attend the Music Camp.
If an approved vaccine is not available or widely distributed, we will cancel the camp. We will make that determination by April 20, 2021 at the latest. In the event of cancelling camp due to COVID concerns, 100% of all monies received will be returned electronically or by mail.
COVID POLICY
The health and safety of our students, instructors and staff is our highest concern.
Our plans for hosting the camp in 2021 are entirely dependent on whether an approved vaccine is available and adequately distributed. We will strongly recommend that only those folks who have had the disease, had the vaccine, or tested positive for antibodies (had the disease but asymptomatic) attend the Music Camp.
If an approved vaccine is not available or widely distributed, we will cancel the camp. We will make that determination by April 20, 2021 at the latest. In the event of cancelling camp due to COVID concerns, 100% of all monies received will be returned electronically or by mail.
Our 2021 Instructors
Greg Cahill
We are happy to welcome Greg Cahill to the Weiser Banjo Camp instruction team for2021. Chicago born and bred, Greg has been playing bluegrass banjo since the early 1970s. He co-founded The Special Consensus in Chicago in1975 and has continued to tour nationally and internationally with the band ever since. In 1984, he created the Traditional American Music (TAM) Program to introduce students of all ages to bluegrass music. Greg has instructed at many of the finest bluegrass camps in the country.
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Bill Evans
We welcome Bill Evans back to the Weiser Banjo Camp in 2021. Bill is an internationally recognized five-string banjo life force. As a performer, teacher, writer and composer, he brings a deep knowledge, intense virtuosity and contagious passion to all things banjo, with thousands of music fans and banjo students from all over the world in a music career that now spans over thirty-five years. Bill is the author of Banjo for Dummies, the most popular banjo book in the world and has been a mainstay at many banjo and bluegrass camps over the years including Weiser.
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Jason Homey
Jason Homey is one of the founders of the Weiser Banjo camp. He and Gary Eller created the camp with a vision of providing an intimate learning environment great instruction. He has played five-string banjo since 1989 and is a two-time first place winner of the Western Canadian Bluegrass Banjo Championships and the Weiser Banjo Contest and a long-term member of the Bluegrass/Celtic/Rock-band 'The Clumsy Lovers'. In addition to performing, recording, and teaching one-on-one banjo, guitar, and mandolin lessons, Jason has (for many years) hosted beginner and intermediate Bluegrass jams in Boise that have vitalized a strong bluegrass community.
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Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a quadruple threat as a singer, a songwriter, a guitarist, and, thanks to his role hosting SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction, as one of the most widely heard broadcasting voices in bluegrass music.
Following apprenticeships with bluegrass legend Dave Evans and Chicago’s durable Special Consensus, Chris moved to Nashville in 1989 forming Chris Jones & The Night Drivers in the mid 1990s. He’s led the band through a set of stellar recordings and tours while appearing and recording with some of the world’s most respected musicians including The Chieftains, Earl Scruggs, Vassar Clements and Tom T. Hall. He has performed on the The Grand Ole Opry with Laurie Lewis, Lynn Morris, and The Whitstein Brothers. |
Dave Keenan
Dave Keenan is a full-time musician and teacher in his home town of Seattle, Washington. Dave has been teaching banjo since high school and performing since the age of 11. He is a member of several bands in Seattle, teaches privately and at the Dusty Strings Music School. He has been a teacher at many music camps in the U.S. and Canada. Dave is a member of the bluegrass band “The Downtown Mountain Boys” whose new CD “Hey John” was thefeatured CD in Bluegrass Unlimited’s June 2018 issue.
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Natalie Padilla
Born into a family of acclaimed roots musicians, Natalie Padilla was immersed in fiddle and violin music at a very young age. Natalie also has deep roots in classical violin. Building on her Old-Time roots and her rich background in classical music, Natalie has devoted herself to creative roots music in recent years by writing original music. In 2017 she released her debut album “Paths & Places”, produced by Joe K. Walsh with special guests including Darol Anger.
As an adjunct fiddle professor at the University of Northern Colorado since 2017, she teaches and leads ensembles in the Folk & Bluegrass program alongside revered local Colorado talents Eric Thorin, Martin Gilmore, and Ron Lynam. |
Megan Lynch Chowning
Megan Lynch Chowning is in high demand as a private and group teacher. She counts dozens of State and National Champions among her students, and has been an instructor at the most prestigious bluegrass and acoustic camps throughout the world, including Augusta Heritage Week, The British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop, and Sorefingers Bluegrass Week in England.
Her no-holds-barred workshops have drawn rave reviews across the U.S and Canada. Her encouraging style makes the newest players as well as seasoned professionals feel like the next level of fiddle success is completely within reach. To learn more about Megan, visit www.fiddlestar.com |
Tristan Scroggins 
With a signature raw mandolin groove, bold fashion sense, charismatic yet soft spoken confidence, and keen sensitivity to style and artistic innovation, twenty-four-year-old mandolinist Tristan Scroggins is quickly becoming a highly influential voice of both music and community in the world of bluegrass. An old soul with the drive and curiosity of a young person, Tristan holds a strong belief in learning the history of bluegrass as well as creating an open and inclusive space for the music moving forward. After years of touring with Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, he is now making his home in Nashville, Tennessee where he has become a part of the burgeoning bluegrass and acoustic scene and can be found performing, researching, and writing about music.
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