Saturday, November 9, 2024
Tony Trischka • Dom Flemons • Brad Kolodner
Presented with KGNU Community Radio
Swallow Hill Music is thrilled to announce our first-ever BanjoFest, a one-day festival of workshops, concerts, and community for banjo lovers of all stripes.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Tony Trischka • Dom Flemons • Brad Kolodner
Presented with KGNU Community Radio
Swallow Hill Music is thrilled to announce our first-ever BanjoFest, a one-day festival of workshops, concerts, and community for banjo lovers of all stripes.
About & Artists
Instantly recognizable and often misunderstood, the banjo is an instrument with deep African roots that holds a unique place within the American musical landscape, and it has many tales to tell.
Join us for BanjoFest whether you’re a picker, a listener, or a little bit of both! An evening concert with three banjo masters caps off a day of workshops and activities (led by both the performers and Swallow Hill teachers.)
Mainstage Performers
Tony Trischka
Dom Flemons
Brad Kolodner
BanjoFest Workshops
BanjoFest’s workshops will be open to all banjo players, across all levels.
Workshops will feature instruction for the predominant styles in American banjo playing, Scruggs style or three-finger picking, and clawhammer playing.
Workshops will focus not only on playing, but songwriting, and playing the banjo within musical genres not popularly associated with the instrument.
(For a good explainer about the differences between Scruggs style and clawhammer banjo, click here.)
Scruggs – Three-Finger Style Banjo Workshop
with Tony Trischka
Banjo Songster and Storytelling Workshop
with Dom Flemons
Beyond the Bum Ditty Clawhammer Workshop
with Brad Kolodner
More workshops with Swallow Hill teachers and times for all workshops will be announced soon.
BanjoFest Tickets
Get tickets for the workshops or the concert, or do both and save $10 with the Full Day Pass!