11.30-1pm – Venue: C of E Primary School Classroom

This will be an ongoing interactive workshop for five days…Mon through Friday. It will be important for each player to have an intermediate level of playing so that they can work on coordinating songs and ballads with their banjo accompaniment.

We will work on frailing technique for accompaniment as well as two finger style picking for Blues, ¾ waltz rhythms and also for using for songs that are not compatable with frailing rhythym like sustained types of songs…..this is a wonderful technique I have developed for these songs.

Please bring a five string banjo..not four string, and a banjo kapo and if possible a way to play your banjo up the neck in higher keys …either with a five string kapo or wee tacks that can be put in the neck of the banjo so the fifth string can be placed behind the fifth string to raise the note.

Sara Grey 

Sara Grey has been involved in preserving and promoting traditional song, and music for over 60 years. One of her greatest passions is teaching banjo for song accompaniment. Over the years she has been so aware of the versatility and beauty of the banjo as song accompaniment, and it has given her so much pleasure and satisfaction to pass on this knowledge in many music schools, camps, workshops, and festivals. Over the years so many students have come to her wanting to learn to play but when they realize that the banjo is also so perfect for many genres of traditional song, they loved combining them.