Greater Yellowstone Music Camp
Acoustic Blues and Swing
June 25-June 30, 2006
Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort  

Instructors include Mike Dowling, Roger Bellow, Orville Johnson, Randy Sabien, Liz Masterson, Cary Black, John Miller,
Dix Bruce, Rene Worst

See the Official GYMC Site

The Greater Yellowstone Music Camp takes place again this year at the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort in the beautiful Grand Teton Mountains of northwestern Wyoming. Same outstanding program! Same outstanding teachers, plus Dix Bruce and Rene Worst has joined the staff!

Whether you're looking to jump-start your playing, learn some new skills, or simply add to your repertoire, there'll be no finer opportunity to do that and more than the Greater Yellowstone Music Camp.  Now located at the picturesque Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort, the Greater Yellowstone Music Camp will offer five full days of outstanding blues and swing instruction for guitar, fiddle and bass in a unique mountain setting at an affordable price.  The 2006 week kicks off June 25 with some of the finest acoustic musicians, recording artists, and instructors in the country gathering with students from throughout North America for an unforgettable week of music and camaraderie in beautiful northwestern Wyoming.  

Instructors

Lead instructor Mike Dowling has worked and recorded with some of the finest swing musicians in the country including the late great jazz violinist Joe Venuti, mando great Jethro Burns, and master fiddlers Vassar Clements and Buddy Spicher.  He teaches blues and swing guitar at music camps throughout the country as well as at his own Wind River Guitar School and has three instructional videos available from Homespun Tapes.  Mike will teach Level II swing rhythm and lead guitar.  Mike teaches Swing Guitar (level 3) and Bottleneck Blues and Beyond.

Roger Bellow is a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, educator, and performer from South Carolina who Bluegrass Unlimited calls "a member of the elite circle of superlative pickers".  He's performed throughout the world and received the South Carolina Folk Heritage Award in 1995.  He teaches swing guitar at the Augusta Heritage Center's "Swing Week" and directs "Music in the Mountains" in Oconee, S.C.  Roger teaches Introduction to Swing Guitar and Western Swing Fiddle.

Orville Johnson is a Seattle-based musical treasure whose professional associations include Laura Love, Ranch Romance, and the File' Gumbo Zydeco Band.  He's appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Jay Leno's Tonight Show, and was featured in the 1997 film Georgia.  Known for his slide guitar stylings and vocal acrobatics, Orville is a popular instructor at camps that include the International Guitar Seminars, Port Townsend Blues Week, and the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.  Orville teaches Introduction to Blues Guitar and Blues on the Dobro.

When Randy Sabien isn't busy fronting his Fiddlehead Blues Band he still plays the occasional gig with longtime duo partner, Mike Dowling.  Randy founded the Jazz String Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1978 and maintains a busy schedule teaching jazz violin at schools and workshops throughout the country.  He's co-author of a jazz method book, Jazz Philharmonic, and most recently toured with Bryan Torff, who played bass with the legendary Stephane Grapelli, in a "Tribute to Stephane Grapelli",  Randy makes his home in northern Wisconsin.  Randy teaches swing fiddle and mandolin.

Liz Masterson was the star of last year's faculty swing band and returns this year as beginning guitar teacher and vocal coach.  Liz has been named Western Music Female Performer of the Year and received the Patsy Montana Cowgirl Award in 2000.  She heads up the prestigious Augusta Heritage Center's "Swing Week" in Elkins, West Virginia and coordinates the Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Denver where she makes her home.  She's recorded six albums of western and swing music with her partner, Sean Blackburn.  Liz is our beginning guitar and vocal instructor. Because we believe that learning to play music with others is a vital component of your development as a musician Liz will teach and also lead a “Slow Jam” for all instruments.

Cary Black returns to the GYMC from his home in Olympia Washington where he teaches music at Evergreen State College.  He's a session player and producer who's played bass for the likes of Ernestine Anderson, Tex Beneke, Dan Hicks, Kay Starr and Claude "Fiddler" Williams.  Cary's teaches at music camps throughout the northwest including Puget Sound, California coast and Wintergrass.   Cary teaches acoustic bass techniques for swing and blues.

John Miller has five albums on Rounder Records, has written a book "Fingerpicking Gershwin," published by Oak Publications, cofounded the band Country Cooking (Rounder), and Wide Awake, and also writes liner notes for blues reissues on Yazoo Records. A longtime teacher, Miller is a board member & coordinator of the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and cofounded the Seattle musician's cooperative/music school, the Musical Arts Workshop.  John's open-minded and inclusive approach has long made him a favorite workshop instructor. He was originally inspired to play guitar by Mississippi John Hurt, whom he saw perform at the 1963 Philadelphia Folk Festival, and he was further stimulated upon seeing Son House, Skip James and the Rev. Guy Davis. His workshops and performances are tremendously popular, and he remains one of the most highly respected musicians and composers in the Northwest.  John teaches Country Blues Guitar (level 3) and Arranging Basics for Guitar. 

To request a brochure with complete information  and registration form, send an e-mail with your name and address.  And be sure to visit the Official GYMC Site.

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To request a brochure with complete information and registration form send an e-mail with your name and address.