It's time to get to it!Each year, hundreds of blues musicians descend on Fort Worden State Park, turning the historic facility in to a giant resonating chamber for acoustic blues music. The Park comes alive, and so does each musician who makes it happen.
Indeed, the cornerstone of the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is the weeklong workshop, August 1 - August 8, 2010, where participants live and play with the bearers of acoustic blues traditions.
Led by Artistic Director Corey Harris, the week is designed to make you a better musician--and does it ever--but it is so much more. Day and night, you'll hang out, jam and swap tunes with interesting, accomplished, and fun musicians from around the nation.
This generous community shares your passion and energy, and we can almost guarantee that by the end of the week you AND your playing will be heading into directions you didn't predict just a few days earlier.
Daily classes are offered in Piedmont style fingerpicking, blues guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, blues piano, bass, washboard, blues singing, and gospel choir, all taught by masters of the traditions.
From the moment you check-in until you leave, you're going to live the blues here in Port Townsend. When we design the week, we try to keep a nice balance between playing opportunities, listening opportunities, as well as time for the unexpected. Here is a rough look at how the week goes down.
First Sunday
- 3:30-5:30 check-in
- 7:00 welcome session
Monday-Friday
- 9:30 - choice of instrument/vocal workshops
- 11:15 - choice of instrument/vocal workshops
- 2:00 - band labs, faculty collaborative workshops
- 3:30 - jam sessions, faculty coolaborations
- evenings - faculty-led jams, showcases, house parties
Friday & Saturday
Public performances and Blues in the Clubs
Meals
Breakfast 8:30
Lunch noon
Dinner 5:30
Last Sunday, check out by 11am
