Students who are staying on campus may arrive on Sunday July 14th after 2:00PM. Dinner on Sunday is provided with your package. Checkout is Saturday, July 20th, no later than 9:00AM (breakfast is not available on Saturday). Students are encouraged to bring along other instruments. Additional workshops may be added for other instruments if there are enough students to fill a workshop slot. Whistles and Harmonicas will be available for purchase at the school.

This schedule is still under development and subject to change. During the course-week adjustments to the schedule will be made as needed.

• Intermdiate and advanced fiddle students will rotate through all fiddle faculty during the week except Julia; Julia will be teaching only beginner fiddle;
• For fiddle we have listed "Advanced or Intermediate" for each class in the morning schedule; we are waiting to see how many students of each level sign up before fixing specific classes as advanced or intermediate (advanced and intermediate students will not be combined in the same fiddle classes);
• See schedule below for all details for all instruments;
• Afternoon schedule varies each day: some afternoon workshops open to the public on a walk-in basis. See the workshop schedule for more information about workshops that are open for walk-ins (they are not listed on this page, but they are available at no extra cost to registered students)

Morning schedule

Monday Afternoon (electives)

(additional workshops available)

Tuesday Afternoon (electives)

(additional workshops available)

1:15-2:45	Beginner Québécois Fiddle/Mandolin Tunes (Julia Plumb & Baron Collin-Hills)	Mandolin (Pascal Miousse)	Acadian Dance I (Emmanuelle & Pastelle LeBlanc)	Guitar (Ryan McGiver w/ Emma Walsh) Course details
		Advanced or Intermediate Québécois Fiddle (Richard Forest)	Cape Breton Piano (Troy MacGillivray)
2:45-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45 (Ensembles)	Ensemble With Pascal Miousse	Ensemble with Ryan McGiver	Acadian Dance I(Emmanuelle & Pastelle LeBlanc)	Ensemble with Richard Forest
	Ensemble with Troy MacGillivray	Ensemble with Julia Plumb & Baron Collins-Hill
4:45-5:30 (Self Organizing Sessions)	Beginner Jam Session	Intermediate Jam Session	Advanced Jam Session
Evening activities to be scheduled

Wednesday Afternoon (electives)

(additional workshops available)

1:15-2:45	Beginner Québécois Fiddle/Mandolin Tunes (Julia Plumb & Baron Collin-Hills)	Mandolin (Pascal Miousse)	Acadian Dance II (Pastelle & Emmanuelle LeBlanc)	Guitar (Ryan McGiver w/ Emma Walsh) Course details
	Music Theory 101 (Chuck Donnelly)	Advanced or Intermediate Québécois Fiddle (Richard Forest)	Cape Breton Piano (Troy MacGillivray)
2:45-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45 (Ensembles)	Ensemble With Pascal Miousse & Emma Walsh	Ensemble Ryan McGiver	Acadian Dance III (Pastelle & Emmanuelle LeBlanc)	Ensemble with Richard Forest & Ray Lambert
	Ensemble with Troy MacGillivray	Ensemble with Julia Plumb & Baron Collins-Hill
4:45-5:30 (Self Organizing Sessions)	Beginner Jam Session	Intermediate Jam Session	Advanced Jam Session
7:00-9:00	Wednesday evening concert Gates Auditorium (performers to be announced)

Thursday Afternoon (electives)

(additional workshops available)

1:15-2:45	Beginner Québécois Fiddle/Mandolin Tunes (Julia Plumb & Baron Collin-Hills)	Mandolin (Pascal Miousse)	Acadian Songs & Voice(Emmanuelle & Pastelle LeBlanc)	Guitar (Ryan McGiver w/ Emma Walsh) Course details
	Advanced or Intermediate Québécois Fiddle (Richard Forest)	Cape Breton Piano (Troy MacGillivray)
2:45-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45 (Ensembles)	Ensemble With Pascal Miousse	Ensemble with Ryan McGiver		Ensemble with Richard Forest
	Ensemble with Troy MacGillivray	Ensemble with Julia Plumb & Baron Collins-Hill	Acadian Songs & Voice(Emmanuelle & Pastelle LeBlanc)
4:45-5:30 (Self Organizing Sessions)	Beginner Jam Session	Intermediate Jam Session	Advanced Jam Session
7:00-9:00	Thursday evening student ensembles concert Gates Auditorium (AcTS Students will perform this evening)

Friday Afternoon (electives)

(additional workshops available)

1:15-2:45	Beginner Québécois Fiddle/Mandolin Tunes (Julia Plumb & Baron Collin-Hills)	Mandolin (Pascal Miousse)	Acadian Dance IV (Emmanuelle LeBlanc)	Guitar (Ryan McGiver w/ Emma Walsh) Course details
	Advanced or Intermediate Québécois Fiddle (Richard Forest)	Cape Breton Piano (Troy MacGillivray)	Music Thoery 101: A study of chords and more (Chuck Donnelly)
2:45-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45 (Ensembles)	Ensemble With Pascal Miousse & Pastelle LeBlanc	Ensemble with Ryan McGiver & Emanuelle LeBlanc		Ensemble with Richard Forest & Ray Lambert
	Ensemble with Troy MacGillivray	Ensemble with Julia Plumb & Baron Collins-Hill
4:45-5:30 (Self Organizing Sessions)	Beginner Jam Session	Intermediate Jam Session	Advanced Jam Session
7:00-9:00	Friday evening concert Gates Auditorium (performers to be announced)

Guitar instruction with Ryan McGiver daily details

    
Monday July 14th
9-10:15 AM Dadgad Guitar Basics - Technique and scales
10:45-Noon Dadgad Guitar Basics - Chord vocabulary (Key of D)
1:15-2:30 PM Dadgad Basic Rhythmic Accompaniment in Folk Music (with Emma Walsh)
Tuesday July 15th
9-10:15 AM Dadgad Chord vocabulary (Key of G)
10:45-Noon Dadgad Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar
1:15-2:30 PM Dadgad Rhythmic Accompaniment Guitar 2- Irish Music (with Emma Walsh)
Wednesday July 16th
9-10:15 AM Building Advanced Chords in Dadgad/ Beyond Folk into Blues and Jazz
10:45-Noon Dadgad American Fingerstyle Guitar
1:15-2:30 PM Dadgad Rhythmic Accompaniment Guitar 3- Irish Music (with Emma Walsh)
Thursday July 17th
9-10:15 AM Modes in Celtic Music - Advanced Theory for Open Stringed Tunings
10:45-Noon Songs from the Catskill Mountains
1:15-2:30 PM Dadgad Rhythmic Accompaniment Guitar 4- Irish Music (with Emma Walsh)
Friday July 18th
9-10:15 AM Contemporary Arranging of Traditional Songs
10:45-Noon Dadgad Fingerstyle - Accompanying Traditional American Songs
1:15-2:30pm Dadgad Rhythmic Accompaniment Guitar 5- Irish Music (with Emma Walsh)

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Intermediate/Advanced Piano Accordion with Pastelle LeBlanc

Advanced/Intermediate Piano Accordion: The accordion in Acadian traditional music is becoming more and more celebrated and blends wonderfully with the fiddle music. In this class, students will learn how to play the melodic right hand on the accordeon and will learn a variety of Acadian tunes. Reels, jigs and waltzes from the Acadian repertoire will be taught as well as some base lines to accompany the right hand. Discussion and demonstration of how to use the accordion as a rythmic and accompaniement instrument, how to chord to tunes.

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Advanced/Intermediate Acadian Fiddle with Pascal Miousse

Advanced/Intermediate Acadian Fiddle The fiddle is the most played instrument in Acadian traditional music and it is said that there is at least one fiddler every Acadian family! In this class, students will learn the style and techniques from the Magdelen Island’s Acadian fiddle style. With very distinct and unique bowing technique and an east coast french swing, Pascal will teach step by step how to play the high energy music that makes people want to dance. A repertoire of Acadian tunes from the islands and the maritimes will be taught.

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Advnaced/Intermediate piano, Acadian Songs/Voice, Bodhran with Emmanuelle LeBlanc

Advanced/Intermediate piano The piano was introduced as an accompaniment instrument on Prince Edward Island in the 1950’s and has since become the most common instrument for accompanying fiddlers. Students in this class will learn rhythms and techniques used in accompanying fiddlers in Acadian music as well as traditional Acadian reels on the right hand, and how to accompany them with the left hand. Discussion and demonstration of how piano and step dance rhythms are interlinked. Chording approaches, bass lines and syncopated rhythms for jigs and reels will be explored.
Acadian Songs & Voice I Demonstration of various types of Acadian songs. Discussion of their origins and how they have evolved in different parts of Acadia. The student will learn a chanson à répondre (call and answer song) and turlutte (mouth music). Pastelle LeBlanc will work with Emmanuelle in this workshop. No French necessary!
Acadian Dance I, II, III, IV The Acadian style of step dancing is very lively and percussive. In this class, students will learn how to dance jigs and reels as well as podorythmie (foot percussion) - a sitting down dance that accompanies fiddle music or is danced on its own. This class will be progressive from I through IV.
Bodhran I & II This class will explain how to hold the tipper and the drum, how to accompany jigs and reels as well as an introduction to triplets and rolls. We will use the hand at the back to add tonal changes and introduce more complex rhythms. This class will be progressive from I to II.

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Quebecois fiddle instruction with Richard Forest

  

Intermediate & Advanced Québecois/Franco Fiddle: Richard has posted some tunes for students to listen too before class if possible. Do not worry if you can't get to this, the tunes will be taught!

• Richard Forest downloads

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Beginner fiddle instruction with Julia Plum

  

Beginner Québecois/Franco Fiddle: This course will be tailored to the exact needs of students, both rank beginners and those with some experience on fiddle or another instrument. Exact topics will vary depending on the student body, but come expecting to learn some repertoire and ornamentation from various Francophone fiddle styles as well as rhythm, bowing, and positioning techniques. Music will be taught by ear, with recordings and sheet music available from Julia after camp finishes. Please bring fiddle, bow, rosin, and a recording device to class if you can, as well as any shoulder rest or tuner you wish to use. Please contact Julia ([email protected]) if you need an instrument to use.