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The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop provides inspiration and instruction for acoustic musicians at all levels of skill. A week in the woods surrounded by enthusiastic students and outstanding teachers offers the support, technical information, and encouragement you need to make strong, satisfying music now.PSGW is held in a gorgeous wooded setting about one and a half hours southwest of Seattle. We have been at the same site for over thirty years and it really feels like home. The cozy cabins are carpeted and heated and have bathrooms with hot showers. Bedding and towels are provided. Each room accommodates two to four campers. There is also space for tenting. In the main lodge, three meals a day are served buffet style, and vegetarians are given special consideration. The private lake and raft are excellent for swimming. Even more than the setting, the people at PSGW create the experience. Teachers are selected not only for their inspiring musicianship, but for their teaching skills as well. With a high ratio of teachers to students (one teacher for every six students or so) there are plenty of teachers to share in music-making with students throughout the week. The atmosphere of openness and support promotes musical risk-taking and growth.As many as thirty classes are offered each session during the three daily class periods. These range from Level 1 (complete beginners) to Level 4 (accomplished amateurs and professional musicians). The focus is on acoustic guitar styles including fingerpicking, flatpicking, country, blues, bluegrass, swing, and jazz, although singing and songwriting are well represented, and special classes in other related instruments round out the offering. The curriculum is different each session and each year.After classes, the day is filled with workshops, concerts, dances, and jam sessions. Being away from everyday cares and responsibilities allows an intense focus on music; therefore many students make major technical and conceptual strides during the week. Learning becomes much easier around people who have similar goals and who want you to succeed. Many participants think of camp as their musical family and return year after year.Jokingly referred to among music camps as "The Mother Ship," PSGW is the model for numerous adult music camps around the country.Set aside your cares and responsibilities for a week and come to this comfortable place in the woods where your only task is to enjoy making music; where someone else cooks and washes the dishes; where each day world-famous musicians perform for you and share their insights into the art and practice of music making. You'll never be the same!We hope you will join us this year. Don't wait; register now! Space is allocated on a first-come first-served basis.For registration information go to: www.psgw.org

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Member Since: 19/11/2007
Band Website: http://www.psgw.org
Band Members: Here are the teachers for Summer 2009...
PSGW 2009 SESSION 1 TEACHERS & CLASSES Duck Baker Introduction to Swing Guitar (3) Fingerstyle Swing (3-4) Mark Bosnian Sing Better Now (1-2) Sing Like You Mean It (2-3) Flip Breskin Home Base (1) Ergonomics for Musicians (1-4) Nan Collie Instigator Wayne Henderson Beginning Finger-Flatpicking (2-3) Intermediate flat-Fingerpicking (3-4) James Hill Warning: Ukulele May Be Habit-Forming (1-2) New Adventures in Ukulele (2-3) Ed Johnson Non-Stop to Brazil (3) Solo Flight (4) Kathy Kallick Bluegrass Repertoire (3-4) Songwriting (2-4) David Keenan Meet the Flatpick (2) House of Leads (3-4) John Miller Learning from Recordings (3) Intro to Chord Theory/Voicing (3) Mark Nelson Jus' Press!: Intro to Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (2) Kani Ki Ho‘alu: Intermediate Slack Key Guitar (3) Ken Perlman Intro to Fingerstyle Blues and Ragtime Guitar (3) Celtic Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar (4) Stacy Phillips Camp Instrumentalist Missy Raines Beginning Bass (1-2) Bluegrass Bass (2-4) Cosy Sheridan Beginning Songwriting (1-3) Intro to Open Tunings for the Guitar (2-3) Laura Smith The Carter Family Songbook (1-3) Beginning Fingerstyles (2) Click here for week 1 class descriptions.
PSGW 2009 SESSION 2 TEACHERS & CLASSES Paul Anastasio Camp Instrumentalist Laurel Bliss Favorite Women Country Singers (1-3) Flatpick Backup (2-3) Brian Butler Beginning Blues (2) Achin' Heart Disease (3-4) Bill Coulter Celtic Guitar in DADGAD (3) Fingerstyle Boot Camp and Master Class (4) Barry Crannell CAGED Theory (2-3) Old Habits Die Hard (2-3) Nova Devonie Instigator Bob Franke Songwriting from the Center (1-3) Tighten up Your Songwriting (2-4) Chris Grampp Rockin' Rhythm Revue (2-3) Jazz and Swing Improvisation (3-4) Piper Heisig Guitar Germinations (1) The Little Bang Theory (1-3) Orville Johnson Intro to Flatpicking (2) Acoustic Lead Guitar (3-4) Tony Marcus Swing Band (3-4) Beginning Clawhammer Banjo (1-2) Gina Sala Vocal Ease (1-3) Singing Across Borders (1-3) Jennifer Scott Singing for Beginners (1-2) Vocal Jazz Extravaganza (2-4) Cyd Smith Beginning Swing Rhythm (3) Hearing Chord Changes (2-3) Sean Williams Old-Style Irish Singing (2-3) Beginning Fingerstyle (2) Scott Wise Play Music by Breathing! (1-2) Breathe deeper...Blues Harmonica Licks of the Greats (2-3) Rene Worst Bass 1 (1-2) Bass 2 (3-4) Click here for week 2 class descriptions.
PSGW 2009 SESSION 3 TEACHERS & CLASSES Kristin Allen-Zito From Sing-Along to Nursery Punk (1-3) Bring a Song to Life (2-3) Roy Berns Introduction to Swing, Way Down Texas Way (3) Lead Guitar Roundup (4) Stephen Dick Flamenco Rhythms (2-3) Flamenco Solos (3-4) Robin Kessinger Flatpick in Mountain Banjo/Fiddle Style (3-4) Flatpicking Harmonies and Rhythms (4) John Knowles Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar (2) Moving Beyond 1-4-5 (2-3) Peter Langston Camp Instrumentalist Western Swing Band (2-4) Kate Long A Cappella Singing (2-3) Songwriting (2-4) James Mason Camp Instrumentalist Swing Fiddle (2-3) Liz Masterson Wah-Hoo and How! (2-3) Intro to Swing Guitar (3) Carol McComb High Lonesome Harmony (2-3) Rookie Guitar (1) Mick Nicholson Bass, the Lowest Form of Music (1-2) Walking the Bass (3-4) Kristina Olsen The Engine of Swing (1-4) Guitar Soloing for people with No clue (2-3) Richard Scholtz Instigator Alice Stuart Basic Blues (2-3) Country Blues & Folk Fingerpicking (3-4) Eric Thompson Fun with Flatpicking Fundamentals (2) Country Flatpick Rhythm Guitar Forum (3) Katerina Tomas Spanish Gypsy Dance - Flamenco Dance (1-2) Introduction to Gypsy Flamenco Songs (1-3) Radim Zenkl Beginning Mandolin (1-2) 101 Mandolin Tricks/Ideas/Techniques (2-3) Click here for week 3 class descriptions.

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