Lap Steel Intensive with Cindy Cashdollar and Darick Campbell

Lap Steel Intensive with Cindy Cashdollar & Darick Campbell
October 2-5, 2008
Fort Worden State Park
Register for Lap Steel Intensive

Cindy Cashdollar & Darick Campbell: Lap Steel Concert & Swing Dance
Saturday, October 4, 7:30pm
JFK Building at Fort Worden State Park
$10 admission (18 & under = free)
Buy tickets to the concert & dance

We hope you can join us for a special, intense weekend of lap steel guitar. We've invited Cindy Cashdollar and Darick Campbell--two of the finest players in the world--to spend a long weekend with YOU. At the end of the workshop, Cindy and Darick will lead a concert and dance--with a full band--in the newly-refurbished JFK Building at Fort Worden.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

We want you to have an amazing weekend with Cindy and Darick. As a result, we're limiting this gathering to 20 participants. You'll stay in Centrum artist housing, and enjoy delicious locally-grown, sustainably-produced food. The all-inclusive fee for this premium experience is $650.

The intensive is aimed at beginning and beginning-intermediate lap steel guitar players. Both Cindy and Darick will cover the nuts and bolts of lap steel playing, techniques, and methods.

Cindy will be teaching blues/Americana/roots stylings in a class is geared towards beginning and beginning/intermediate players.

She’ll teach on a 6-string in both D and G tunings:
From the top (thinnest string) - D A F# D A D;  D B G D B G.
Recommended gauges for Cindy's class: 56 – 46 – 36 – 26 – 18 – 16.

Darick will cover sacred steel, blues, and other styles. His tuning will be posted soon.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

• First event – welcome session and class at 3pm.
• Friday and Saturday schedule: morning class session; early afternoon “office hours” (one-on-one); late afternoon session with Cindy and Darick playing together, or talking craft, or talking about the business.
• Public performance and dance, Sat night – a short concert presentation, then a seriously cool swing dance with a full band, open to the public.
• Last event – breakfast on Sunday, October 5.

Plan to bring:

• lap steel guitar(s). Don't have a lap steel guitar? Contact Peter McCracken at peter@centrum.org--we may be able to get you a loaner or rental.
• a SMALL amp (like a battery-powered Honeytone – fits in your suitcase)
• a thumbpick and two fingerpicks
• a ¾ size bullet nose bar for lap steel players (Stevens style bar doesn’t really work, it’s too light). Cindy uses the John Pearse bar.
• volume pedal optional
• a dobro, if you wish

Austin-based Dobro and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar's career has taken some surprising twists and turns that have led her to work with many of the leading artists in contemporary music including Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Asleep at the Wheel, Garrision Keillor, Marcia Ball, Jorma Kaukonen, Leon Redbone, BeauSoliel, Daniel Lanois, and Redd Volkaert.

Cindy's unerring ability to perfectly compliment a song or step out with a tasteful, imaginative, and exciting solo - and to do it in so many musical genres - has made her one of the most in-demand musicians on the American roots music scene. Her debut CD, Slide Show, features guest artists comprising a Who's Who of the contemporary roots scene.

"Equally at home picking a vintage Dobro, an old National resonator guitar, or laying down fat horn voicings on a tripleneck 8-string steel, Cashdollar is a master of bluegrass, gutbucket blues, honky tonk, swampy R&B, and Western Swing."
- Frets Magazine

Darick Campbell first made his mark in music as a drummer. For several years Darick was the premier drummer of the General Assembly, the National Convocation of the House Of God Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

His choice of the Lap Steel is a reflection of the influences he has blended to become the most emotional player of The Campbell Brothers musical tour d' force. The Campbell Brothers present Sacred Steel: African-American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal. This tradition is just now emerging from the House of God Keith Dominion Church, where for over sixty years it has been an integral part of worship and a vital, if little known, American tradition.

Darick's renditions of End of My Journey have caused audiences throughout the world to weep in heartfelt response to his playing. However it is argued that his most definitive work was his solo work on The Storm is Passing Over. Darick brings the added dimension of being the vocal leader on the Campbell Brothers' What's His Name? In marked contrast to the pin drop rapture of audiences to End Of My Journey, the raucous spontaneity of What's His Name? have left Campbell Brothers' audiences everywhere dancing on a spiritual high.