A new week-end full of old-time music, workshops, jam and dance is ahead of us with a new full american team of teachers this year ! Subscribe now on the Muziekpublique website !
Important: if you subscribe to a workshop, you benefit from free access to the Friday and Saturday evening events! PLANNING : FRIDAY EVENING (April 19): 8PM at Théâtre Molière - 3 Square du Bastion, 1050 Bruxelles Teacher's Concert : Women Rooting For Old-Time & Jam
Jane Rothfield, Annick Odom, Hilarie Burhans and Allan Carr.
-> Buy tickets only for that evening
SATURDAY EVENING (April 20):
7PM at Théâtre Molière - 3 Square du Bastion, 1050 Bruxelles
American Square dance (called by Annick Odom) & Jam
Music by Hills of Belgium & friends -> Buy tickets only for that evening SATURDAY & SUNDAY WORKSHOPS (April 20 & 21): At MABO - Lycée Maria-Boodschap - Rue de la Braie 22, 1000 Bruxelles 9AM to 12PM : instrument classes (singing / fiddle / banjo / guitar)
2PM to 3PM : instrument classes (singing / fiddle / banjo / guitar)
3:30PM to 5PM : group workshop of your choice (slow jam, harmony singing, mini-stringband, dance, ...)
-> Buy tickets for a workshop (including both evening events !)
FIDDLE WORKSHOP :
Janie Rothfield is a powerhouse American Fiddler and American Old Time clawhammer banjo player who is widely recognized for her traditional and inventive style and her own award-winning original tunes (winner of "Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Contest Best New Tune" twice). She has been performing, recording and teaching music that is rooted in Traditional American and Celtic Music since her teens when she started playing with older generation musicians from New England, North Carolina and Quebec. Janie has traveled the world with her unique brand of traditional based music including the UK, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Australia, Canada and throughout the USA.
SINGING WORKSHOP :
Annick Odom, a Belgian-American musician born and raised in West Virginia, is a singer, songwriter, and double bassist. Deeply inspired by traditional Appalachian music, she brings fresh arrangements to old ballads and fiddle tunes. She recently completed an apprenticeship with master singer and fiddler Gerry Milnes in Elkins, West Virginia. Annick has performed at festivals in the US, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, both as a solo artist and with bands Linen of Words and Sweet Joe Pye. Together, they showcase a diverse repertoire that blends contemporary and old-time tradition.
BANJO WORKSHOP :
Hilarie Burhans has been playing and teaching her hard-driving clawhammer banjo style for more than 40 years, and is much in demand at festival jams throughout the US, and has collaborated on multiple music projects. She has taught at dozens of camps and workshops in the US, Europe and Australia, has more than 6k subscribers on YouTube, and has hundreds of paid subscribers to her Patreon banjo instructional site.. She co-founded the nationally-touring Hotpoint Stringband, with whom she has recorded five albums, and a track from her solo CD was featured on an episode of the acclaimed HBO series Deadwood. When not playing or teaching banjo, Hilarie is co-owner and executive chef of Restaurant Salaam in Athens, Ohio.
GUITAR WORKSHOP :
Allan Carr (originally from Scotland) has been playing American style old time music since meeting his wife, American Fiddler Janie Rothfield in 1978 (Janie was at university in Aberdeen)! He has developed a back up guitar style that is firmly rooted in the tradition of Roy Harvey and Riley Pucket combined with his own expressive rhythms, bass runs and chord choices. He has toured throughout the UK and USA with Janie, and their bands Hadden, Rothfield & Carr, Atlantic Bridge, Red Hen and Coracree.. Allan is a sought after guitar teacher and has been on staff at numerous camps and festivals such as Swannanoa Gathering, Earful of Fiddle, Great Lakes Music Camp, Banjo Camp North, John C. Campbell Folk School, Janie's Jumpstart and more!