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# Targhee Music Camp

Acoustic Music Education Camp in the Tetons

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- [Tim Stafford - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tim-stafford-guitar/)
- [A. Lawrence Smart - Luthier](https://targheemusiccamp.com/a-lawrence-smart-luthier/) - Joining us as the camp this year will be Lawrence Smart, a wonderful instrument builder. Lawrence will hold office hours to share his knowledge and will bring a few tools. Lawrence Smart has been repairing and building guitars and mandolin family instruments for nearly 30 years. www.smart-instruments.com
- [Joe K Walsh - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/joe-walsh-mandolin/) - Joe Walsh is a musician who legendary fiddler Darol Anger called “one of my favorite musicians on earth.” Recognized as one of the foremost contemporary mandolinists, Joe has also won acclaim and affection for his vocals and his talents on a number of other instruments, including guitar and octave mandolin. With two solo albums to
- [Jesse Cobb - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jesse-cobb/) - Jesse Cobb taught Mandolin at the 2011 Grand Targhee Bluegrass Camp as a member of the Band-in-Residence, The Infamous Stringdusters. Jesse, a Grammy-nominated founding member of The Infamous Stringdusters, has played with legends like Béla Fleck and Lee Ann Womack
- [Jeremy Garrett - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jeremy-garrett-fiddle/) - Jeremy Garrett has been playing music since he first picked up the fiddle at the age of three, encouraged by his father, a guitarist steeped in Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys and its guitar/banjo duo of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs. The two formed a band together, the Grasshoppers, and that helped launch Jeremy’s 45-year –
- [Travis Book - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/travis-book-bass/) - For the last 20 years Travis Book has anchored the Grammy Award winning Bluegrass ensemble The Infamous Stringdusters with his upright bass playing and lead and harmony vocals. As one of the band’s principal songwriters he’s shaped the sound of this legendary powerhouse band. Every Tuesday he hosts collaborative musical journeys at 185 King St.
- [Chris Pandolfi - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/chris-pandolfi-banjo/) - Music was all around me growing up. My grandparents, Frank and Carmela Pandolfi, started the Connecticut Opera Association in 1942. I never met my grandfather, but my grandmother got us playing piano at a really young age. Ultimately inspired by my older brother Jono’s musical tastes and exploits, I got my first banjo in the
- [Andy Falco - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/andy-falco-guitar/) - Andy Falco is a guitarist from Long Island, New York specializing in American roots music. He spent his early years cutting his teeth playing blues, funk and R&B on Long Island and in the New York City music scene of the 90’s when it was defined by the various small venues curating vibrant musical environments. Clubs like Manny’s
- [Rodney Crowell - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/rodney-crowell/) - Rodney Crowell is the songwriter’s songwriter and an icon among giants. Native Texan, Crowell is a multi-Grammy Award-winning troubadour with fifteen number one hits. Over the course of his career, Crowell has gracefully blended his own mainstream success as an artist with a prolific catalog of songs cut by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Johnny
- [Peter Rowan - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/peter-rowan/) - Grammy Winner | Hall of Fame Member | Master of American Musical Traditions Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Peter Rowan is one of America's most revered musical storytellers. A 2022 inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, and winner of the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in Music given by 'Your Roots are Showing' (Ireland), Rowan has spent over five decades shaping
- [Hasee Ciaccio - Bass/Children’s Music](https://targheemusiccamp.com/hasee-ciaccio-basschildrens-music/) - Hasee Ciaccio is a performer and educator, currently residing in Nashville, TN. A native of Myrtle Beach, SC, Hasee made her way to the mountains of Appalachia in 2010 to study traditional string band music at East Tennessee State University. While a student, she was a member of the esteemed Old-Time Pride Band, an internationally recognized
- [Joe Newberry - Old-time Banjo, Guitar, Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/joe-newberry-old-time-banjo-guitar/) - Joe Newberry is a Missouri native and North Carolina transplant who has played music most of his life. His powerful and innovative banjo playing, as well as his songwriting, guitar skills, fiddling, and singing has delighted audiences around the world. Joe’s songwriting is characterized by the same clean, elegant style as his banjo playing. Musicians in
- [Wes Corbett - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/wes-corbett-banjo/) - A banjo player of uncommon grace and facility, Wesley Corbett began classical piano at the age of two. During high school he converted to the banjo and has spent the last 15 years studying, touring and teaching. Wesley has recorded and performed with numerous musicians, including Joy Kills Sorrow, The Bee Eaters, The Biscuit Burners,
- [Molly Tuttle - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/molly-tuttle-guitar/) - A virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and award winning songwriter with a distinctive voice, Molly has turned the heads of even the most seasoned industry professionals. She began performing on stage when she was 11, and recorded her first album, The Old Apple Tree, at age 13. Since then, she’s appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, was featured
- [Brittany Haas - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/brittany-haas-fiddle/) - California-born Brittany Haas is widely regarded as one of the most influential fiddlers of her generation. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the old-time fiddling of Bruce Molsky and the innovative stylings of Darol Anger. A prodigious youth, she began touring with Darol's Republic of Strings at the age of 14. She simultaneously studied baboons in the evolutionary biology department of Princeton University (and minoring in music performance, composing with professor Dan Trueman) and joined seminal chamber-grass band Crooked Still. She has toured with them since, and also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (her cellist sister), Abigail Washburn, and The Waybacks. www.brittanyhaas.com
- [Celia Woodsmith - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/celia-woodsmith-singing/) - Celia Woodsmith possesses a deep knowledge of blues, Americana and folk. She brings a commanding voice and presence to the stage. Having opened for such artists as Taj Mahal, Leon Russel and Janis Joplin’s Big Brother and the Holding company, she is able to push boundaries while bowing to the traditions of bluegrass.
- [Blue Diamond Strings - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/blue-diamond-strings-band-in-residence/) - Two renowned duos and two guys named Paul have joined forces to play a joyful amalgam of bluegrass, old time music, and blues. Breathtaking vocals, superb chops and deep knowledge of many styles of traditional music make for the spontaneous combustion that is Blue Diamond Strings.
- [Kimber Ludiker - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/kimber-ludiker-fiddle/) - Kimber Ludiker excelled at Texas-style fiddling from the early age of three. A fourth generation-fiddler, Kimber went on to win the title of Grand National Fiddle Champion in both 2009 and 2010. She has traveled to France, Ireland, England, Scotland, and more playing bluegrass. Kimber is considered a pillar in the next-generation fiddle scene. She
- [Della Mae - Band in Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/della-mae-band-in-residence/) - Della Mae features 2-time National Fiddle Champion Kimber Ludiker, impeccable mandolinist Jenni Lyn Gardner, energetic bassist Shelby Means, innovative guitarist Courtney Hartman and soulful singer and guitarist Celia Woodsmith. Della Mae brings acoustic grit and twang to town with no apologies… and taking no prisoners. Music that tells a story while delivering a punch. With
- [Hayes Carll - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/hayes-carll-songwriting/) - Hayes Carll is an odd mix. Wildly literate, utterly slackerly, impossibly romantic, absolutely a slave to the music, the 37-year old Texan is completely committed to the truth and unafraid to skewer pomposity, hypocrisy and small-minded thinking. Eleven years into a recording career, Hayes Carll shows no signs of having arrived at his creative apex.
- [Shelby Means - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/shelby-means-bass/) - Shelby Means was born in the bluegrass state of Kentucky, and raised on the windswept prairie of Wyoming. Shelby began singing and playing the upright bass with her brother Jacob on mandolin, and dad Warrie on banjo. From the plains of the front range to the international stages of Europe, China, & Israel, Shelby has
- [Jenni Lyn Gardner - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jenni-lyn-gardner-mandolin/) - Jenni hails from Conway, South Carolina, where at the age of 5 she started playing guitar. She got her love for bluegrass music from her father who plays the banjo and guitar. She first picked with Bill Monroe when she was 9 years old, backstage at a bluegrass festival in North Carolina. She has followed
- [Alan O'Bryant - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/alan-obryant-banjo/) - It seemed like everyone in the O'Bryant clan played music. Alan's uncles and cousins were all into old time country music and what they called “string music”; even his older brother played a little guitar. When Alan picked up the banjo at age 13, he took to it like a duck takes to water. He
- [Mike Compton - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mike-compton-mandolin/) - An American bluegrass mandolin player, Mike Compton has earned a worldwide reputation as one of the modern masters of bluegrass mandolin, and is especially known for his personal take on the fiercely hard-driven, rhythmically intense style developed by the master of the genre, Bill Monroe. Grammy award winner, nominated IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year,
- [Jeff Austin - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jeff-austin-songwriting/) - Yonder Mountain String Band Mandolinist Jeff Austin is unstoppable. He is celebrated for his fleet fingers and penchant for improvisation on stage, but those qualities also speak volumes about how he chooses to live. Austin has cultivated his natural musical abilities and allowed himself to be driven by his boldest instincts. In this way, he has been able to build positive, exciting momentum around his life’s greatest passion. Targhee Music Camp is excited to welcome Jeff to the teaching staff this year. www.yondermountain.com
- [Stuart Duncan - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/stuart-duncan-fiddle/) - Multi-instrumentalist Stuart Duncan has built upon his bluegrass roots to become an artist that defies categorization and surpasses the limits of any specific genre. The consummate sideman, Stuart has lent his particular taste and tone to countless artists and projects. Whether trading dizzying instrumental licks with the likes of Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, or
- [Greg Garrison - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/greg-garrison-bass/) - Greg Garrison has strong connections to the musical worlds of bluegrass, folk, jazz, and rock, and has been able to work with a wide range of musicians including Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Ron Miles, Del McCoury, Jayme Stone, Art Lande, Fred Hess, Rudy Royston, Edgar Meyer, Bryan Sutton, and Vassar Clements. Greg has also been a member of Colorado bluegrass/rock band Leftover Salmon since 2000, recording three albums with the band and performing at venues and festivals across the U.S. like Red Rocks, Telluride Bluegrass, High Sierra, and Bonnaroo. www.greggarrisonbass.com
- [Paul Shelasky - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/paul-shelasky-fiddle/) - He has performed and recorded with Laurie Lewis, The Good Ol’ Persons, David Grisman, and others. He was the California State Fiddle Champion in 1975 and 1981. He currently plays jazz, bluegrass, and Irish music. His latest album is called Fiddle Crazy.
- [The "Lomax Project" Band - Garrison, Glaspy, Haas, Stone, West](https://targheemusiccamp.com/lomax-project/) - Stone recently launched a new project to celebrate the work of folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax. This collaboration brings together some of the country’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine songs from the Lomax archive. The Lomax Project transforms performing arts centers and festivals into a creative hub where eminent musicians gather to explore their roots, create new music and celebrate their collective cultural heritage through educational outreach activities and concerts. www.jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject
- [Jayme Stone - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jayme-stone-banjo/) - Two-time Juno-winning banjoist, composer and instigator Jayme Stone makes music inspired by sounds from around the world, bridging folk, jazz and chamber music. His award-winning albums both defy and honor the banjo’s long role in the world’s music, turning historical connections into compelling music. The Other Side of the Air (2013) is a travelogue of imaginary landscapes and faraway lands. The album traverses the Cinnamon Route through Persia and India, revisits and reinvents melodies Stone collected in West Africa and includes a Concerto for Banjo and Chamber Symphony written for him by Canadian composer Andrew Downing. Targhee Music Camp is excited to welcome Jayme Stone to teach banjo this summer at the camp. www.jaymestone.com
- [Kate Brislin - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/kate-brislin-singing/) - Kate Brislin has brought a fresh outlook to the old-time string band tradition. A member of the four-woman group the Any Old Time String Band in the 1970s and the Blue Flame String Band in the early '80s, Brislin has continued to record and perform with her husband Jody Stecher. www.jodyandkate.com
- [Billy Cardine -  Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/billy-cardine-dobro/) - Billy Cardine is an innovative, genre-blurring slide guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, touring artist, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Ryman Auditorium and major festivals, such as Bonnaroo, Merlefest and Rockygrass. He is an internationally featured artist touring in India, Japan, Europe and Canada as well. Billy’s dobro playing was recently featured on a Jerry Douglas’ production, Southern Filibuster, honoring one of the forefathers of the Dobro. www.billycardine.com
- [Paul Knight - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/paul-knight-bass/) - Paul Knight has been playing with Peter Rowan in various configurations for over 15 years. His driving acoustic bass has been part of recordings and live performances with a wide range of musicians including Jim Lauderdale, Laurie Lewis, Perfect Strangers, and Crooked Jades. Paul is also highly regarded as a sound engineer, and has toured as road manager & sound engineer for The David Grisman Quintet, Blue Highway, Laurie Lewis, Psychograss, Turtle Island String Quartet, Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso. www.paulknightsound.com
- [Jody Stecher - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jody-stecher-mandolin/) - Jody Stecher is an American singer and musician, who plays bluegrass and old-time music on banjo, mandolin, fiddle and guitar, and Dagar-vani dhrupad on the sursringar, a rare Indian instrument that is a baritone relative of the sarod. www.jodyandkate.com
- [John Reischman - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/john-reischman-mandolin/) - John Reischman is one of the premier mandolinists of his generation. He’s a master instrumentalist capable of swinging between re-inventions of traditional old-time tunes, deconstructions from the bluegrass repertoire, and compelling original tunes, many of which have become standards. He’s also a powerful bandleader, touring his band the Jaybirds all over Canada and the United
- [Tim O'Brien - Mandolin/Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tim-obrien-mandolinsongwriting/) - In Tim O’Brien’s music, things come together. The uncanny intersection of traditional and contemporary elements in his songwriting, his tireless dedication to a vast and still-expanding array of instruments, and his ongoing commitment to place himself in as many unique and challenging musical scenarios as possible has made him a key figure in today’s thriving roots music scene – and well beyond it. O’Brien’s presence – be it as a bandleader, songwriter, mentor, instrumentalist, or vocalist – has been strongly felt not only in his own rich music, but in the many recordings of his songs by other artists. www.timobrien.net
- [Clarke Wyatt - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/clarke-wyatt-banjo/) - Clarke Wyatt plays banjo and has a great time doing it. He is descended from a long line of pickers and fiddlers in rural East Texas – the region and time period of the East Texas Serenaders. He plays two- and three-finger style the old time way and loves sharing his unique approach to the
- [Betse Ellis - Old-Time Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/betse-ellis-old-time-fiddle/) - Betse Ellis is an Ozark fiddle tune celebrant and devoted teacher. Long known for her exuberant performance style with her former band, The Wilders, or in her solo touring that followed, Betse has partnered with Clarke Wyatt to continue her adventures in old time music and beyond. A few of the many camps Betse has
- [Mark O'Connor - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mark-oconnor-fiddle/) - A New School of American String Playing – The American System and the “O’Connor Method.” Solo books of sequenced tunes and exercises featuring technique, creativity, theory, improvisation and ear training. “America On Strings” is sequenced orchestrations designed for elementary, middle and high school level orchestras. The O’Connor Method includes musical literature that represents all of
- [Michael Witcher - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/michael-witcher-resonator-guitar/) - A much-in-demand session player in LA and Nashville, Michael has worked with such artists as Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, Peter Rowan, Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Laurie Lewis, John Paul Jones (bassist of Led Zeppelin), Joan Osborn, The Gibson Brothers, Willie Watson (Old Crow Medicine Show), and Fernando Ortega among others. He has played the
- [Bill Evans - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/bill-evans-banjo/) - “Banjo For Dummies” author Bill Evans has taught thousands of players in both group and one-on-one instruction over the last forty years. He has authored five books, nine DVDs and also teaches beginning and bluegrass banjo courses online at Peghead Nation. His instruction is down-to-earth, highly organized and hands-on with detailed tab examples designed for
- [Kristen Andreassen - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/kristen-andreassen-songwriting/) - Kristin Andreassen is a singer, writer and a percussive dancer who combines those skills in musical performances that are both “inventive” (The New Yorker) and “haunting” (NPR’s Folk Alley). Before embarking on her solo career, Kristin toured and recorded with both the stringband Uncle Earl (w/ Abigail Washburn, Rayna Gellert & KC Groves) and the “folk noir”
- [Forrest O'Connor - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/forrest-oconnor-mandolin/) - Nashville-born singer-songwriter, mandolinist, and guitarist Forrest O’Connor has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Paul Simon, Kenny Loggins, Clint Black, Del McCoury, and the Nashville Symphony. A former Tennessee state mandolin champion, O’Connor won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2017 as part of the Mark O’Connor Band. He
- [Eli West - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/eli-west-guitar/) - Eli West is a Seattle-based multi-instrumental musician and interactive graphic designer. With an interest in angular phrasing and non-traditional improvisation within the historic precedents of bluegrass and old-time music, his playing both grounds and pushes the ensembles he is involved with. He has released three records as half of the new/old-time duo Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, which tours regularly throughout the US and Europe. Eli is an active ingredient playing guitar, banjo, and bouzouki with both Jayme Stone's Lomax Project and John Reischman and the Pine Siskens. A first time instructor in 2014, we are happy to have him back again this year. www.elidoes.com
- [Maggie O'Connor - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/maggie-oconnor-fiddle/) - Violinist and American fiddler Maggie O'Connor frequently performs with her husband Mark O'Connor, and she is also a member of the Grammy Award winning O'Connor Band. Maggie has appeared as guest soloist with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony and many other symphony orchestras performing with her husband on his composition "Strings and
- [Kate Lee O'Connor - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/kate-lee-oconnor-singing/) - Kate Lee’s passion and dedication has afforded her great respect in the music community as a vocalist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Whether performing her original material or backing up a major entertainer, Lee brings a wealth of stylistic understanding and a unique, discerning sense of phrasing to both the stage and studio. She is an energetic
- [Matt Flinner - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/matt-flinner-mandolin/)
- [Greg Schochet - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/greg-schochet-guitar/) - Greg Schochet is a full-time performer, teacher and producer in Boulder, Colorado. Equally adept on guitar and mandolin, he is fluent in all manner of acoustic and electric styles, specializing in bluegrass, swing and country. He is the lead guitarist for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams, Colorado’s beloved and venerable honky-tonk and western swing band.
- [Mollie O'Brien - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mollie-obrien-singing/)
- [Rich Moore - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/rich-moore-singing/)
- [Geoff Saunders - Old-Time Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/geoff-saunders-old-time-banjo/)
- [Joe Smart - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/joe-smart-guitar/) - National award winning guitarist and fiddler Joe Smart is a multi-faceted instrumentalist with a Master Guitar Certificate from Berklee College of Music. He has recorded on and produced numerous albums ranging from bluegrass, folk, Norteño, jazz, country, pop, and rock. In addition to performing in several countries, with multiple groups, as well as with iconic
- [Scott Nygaard - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/scott-nygaard-guitar/) - Scott Nygaard is one of the most inventive and original guitarists in the bluegrass/acoustic music scene. His solos, a seamless amalgam of bluegrass, folk, and jazz influences, shift easily from breathtaking virtuosity to soulful melodic musings and his accompaniment is always intriguing, supportive, and propulsive. Initially influenced by Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Django Reinhardt
- [John Lowell - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/john-lowell-guitar/) - John Lowell has been performing professionally for more than 45 years. He’s toured the world with his bands Kane’s River, Wheel Hoss, Deep River, Growling Old Men, Coppo Kaerner & Lowell, and the John Lowell Band. John is a triple threat – songwriter, singer and guitarist, and his smooth voice is featured on many albums,
- [Brian Wicklund - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/brian-wicklund-mandolin/) - Brian Wicklund (fiddle/mandolin) has been an integral part of the acoustic music scene for decades. As a teenager, he won dozens of fiddle contests and has toured internationally with bands Stoney Lonesome, Judith Edelman Band, Kathy Kallick Band, Chris Stuart Band, and with Brother Mule. He is a busy studio musician and producer with dozens of projects to his
- [Rob Ickes - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/rob-ickes-resonator-guitar/) - A Northern California native, Rob Ickes moved to Nashville in 1992 and joined Blue Highway, the highly esteemed bluegrass band, as a founding member in 1994. He is recognized as one of the most innovative Dobro players on the scene today, contributing signature technique and greatly expanding the boundaries of the instrument’s sonic and stylistic
- [Casey Driessen - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/casey-driessen-fiddle/)
- [Tony Trischka - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tony-trischka-banjo/) - Tony Trischka is considered to be the consummate banjo artist and perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 45 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians with the many voices he has brought to the instrument. www.tonytrischka.com
- [Darrell Scott - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/darrell-scott-songwriting/)
- [Ben Winship - Stringband Class](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ben-winship-mandolin/) - Ben Winship is a self-made musician who has carved out a niche for himself behind the potato curtain and under the radar of commercial music. His routine is a constantly shifting mix of performing, recording, engineering and teaching. Mandolin is Ben's primary ax, but he is also a well respected songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Winship's version of string band music is an exploration of crossroads; where raw meets refined, original meets traditional, weird meets familiar, organized meets free ranging. Ben co-founded the Targhee Music Camp with Tom Garnsey in 2005, and we are delighted to have the former camp coordinator teaching workshops this year. www.benwinship.com
- [Danny Barnes - Banjo, Workshops](https://targheemusiccamp.com/danny-barnes-guitarbanjo/)
- [Thomas Sneed - Camp Coordinator](https://targheemusiccamp.com/thomas-sneed-camp-coordinator/) - Thomas Sneed is a mandolin player and musicologist with an interest in American Roots Music. He is based in Alta, Wyoming where he is the Director of the Targhee Music Camp. For over 30 years, he has participated in music festivals and gatherings around the world. In 1997, he was a founding member of the old-time stringband, Reeltime Travelers, which became a widely known old-time performance band, which included work with producer T-Bone Burnett on the “Down From the Mountain Tour” and the “Cold Mountain” movie soundtrack. Currently, he performs with New Reeltime Travelers and as a duet with Ben Winship. Thomas has been the Camp Coordinator since 2011, and his vision has been a positive and inspiring asset to the Targhee Music Camp.
- [Mike Marshall - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mike-marshall-mandolin/) - Mike Marshall is one of the world’s most accomplished and versatile string instrumentalists in American today. A master on mandolin, guitar, mandocello and violin, he has created some of the most adventurous instrumental music for over 35 years. His concert tours that have taken him around the globe. Whether playing bluegrass with Edgar Meyer, Bela
- [Ivan Rosenberg - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ivan-rosenberg-resonator-guitar/) - Since releasing his first solo album in 2001, Ivan Rosenberg has gained a dedicated following for his melodic, expressive acoustic music on Dobro and clawhammer banjo. Millions have heard his original songs in the background of over 400 television programs and films including The Daily Show, Oprah, Call of the Wildman, History Detectives, the Special
- [Grant Gordy - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/grant-gordy-guitar/) - “Grant Gordy is one of the very small group of musicians to whom the word “preternatural” can hype-lessly apply. He stands out in a crowded field of Acoustic Guitar Wunderkinds not just for his virtuosity but for constantly giving the listener a note-by-note discovery of his emotional and thought process— with no small helping of
- [Tom Murphy - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tom-murphy-assistant-camp-coordinator-mandolin-and-guitar/) - Tom Murphy is a multi-instrumentalist returning to Targhee Music Camp for his 14th straight year. He has taught at camps throughout North America and Europe including the Montana Fiddle Camp, Cabin Fever Workshop in British Columbia and Adiaha’s Bluegrass Camp in Germany. Influenced initially by David Grisman and Sam Bush, Tom quickly realized the mandolin's
- [Courtney Hartman - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/courtney-hartman-guitar/) - With her most recent release, Ready Reckoner, Courtney Hartman provides the listener with a conduit for self-exploration—a factor that fulfills one of her greatest hopes in sharing the album with the world. “If you listen to any of these songs and step away feeling lifted or carried to a different place, that is a real
- [Roy Andrade - Old Time Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/roy-andrade-fiddle-and-old-time-banjo/) - Roy Andrade is a musician, producer and teacher who concerns himself mostly with the old-time music of the south. He was the banjo player for the popular string band Reeltime Travelers, and for subsequent projects with various musicians and groups including New Reeltime Travelers, and the Blue Ridge Entertainers. His years of fieldwork have led to several recordings including the Doc Watson Family box set Milestones (released 2013), of which he is the producer. He continues to write, teach, and produce recordings on traditional music and has been an important part of Targhee Music Camp for the last several years. He is an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies, one of the few places with a bachelors degree in traditional American music. www.newreeltimetravelers.com
- [Carol Elizabeth Jones - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/carol-elizabeth-jones-singing/) - Carol Elizabeth Jones has made her mark as a singer of traditional mountain music, a guitar player, and as a writer of new songs in the traditional style. She has many albums to her credit including those with Jones & Leva, Laurel Bliss, and the New Reeltime Travelers. Rounder Records featured Carol Elizabeth on several
- [Margaret Glaspy - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/margaret-glaspy-singing/) - Born and raised in Northern California, Margaret Glaspy has brought her indescribable voice to the east coast and New York City couldn't be happier. She is a committed student to the music around her and has been writing some of the most innovative and heartfelt material of her generation. With a list of influences including Omou Sangare, Feist, Jeff Buckley, and Nina Simone, she has created a sound and writing style that is undeniable, honest, and a tribute to the beautiful music that she has discovered throughout her 23 years. www.mpglaspy.com
- [Jim Lauderdale - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jim-lauderdale-songwriting/) - Jim Lauderdale is a multiple Grammy® and Americana Music Association Award-winning musician and one of the most respected artists working the Americana, Bluegrass and Country music communities today. Lauderdale, a master songwriter, has had his work recorded by artists such as Patty Loveless, George Jones, Shelby Lynne, Solomon Burke, The Dixie Chicks, Blake Shelton, and George Strait, who has had numerous hits with Jim’s songs. Lauderdale’s music has been featured regularly on the ABC hit show Nashville, and he appeared in the successful film Pure Country. www.jimlauderdale.com
- [Eric Thompson -  Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/eric-thompson-guitar/) - Eric Thompson took up the guitar as a teenager in Palo Alto, California in the early 1960's, at a time when very few folk guitarists were playing more than basic rhythm guitar. Among his earliest bands were the Black Mountain Boys (with Jerry Garcia and David Nelson) and Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Eric is a knowledgeable and patient teacher, and we are excited to welcome him to our staff for the first time. www.ericandsuzy.com
- [Suzy Thompson - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/suzy-thompson-fiddle/) - Suzy Thompson is one of the rare musicians today who has mastered the acoustic blues violin, following in the footsteps of Lonnie Chatmon, Clifford Hayes and Eddie Anthony. A powerful blues singer in the styles of Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith, Suzy is unique in her ability to fiddle and vocalize at the same time. Suzy currently records and performs in a duet with her longtime musical partner, reknowned flatpicker Eric Thompson, with the Aux Cajunals (a Cajun/blues band, in which Suzy plays Cajun accordion as well as fiddle and guitar), in a duet with resonator guitar goddess Del Rey, and with Eric in the Todalo Shakers. www.ericandsuzy.com
- [Mary Gauthier - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mary-gauthier-songwriting/) - It is said that the master songwriters – the “truth tellers,” as Mary refers to the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith – those writers always put a piece of themselves into every song. They first shined bright light on the truth and lies of her world before she began to put pen to paper herself, and it’s up to the listener to imagine what is real and what is a dream. This sense of autobiography has always loomed large in the work of Mary Gauthier. www.marygauthier.com
- [Drew Becker - Sound Reinforcement](https://targheemusiccamp.com/drew-becker-sound-reinforcement/) - Drew Becker is the sound engineer for The Infamous Stringdusters and taught a Sound Reinforcement Class at Targhee Music Camp.
- [Mark O'Connor Band - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mark-oconnor-band-band-in-residence/) - Mark O’Connor Band’s very first performance took place at the legendary Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas in 2015. In 2017 – less than a year and a half later – they took home the GRAMMY Award for Best Bluegrass Album for their debut recording, Coming Home. In a whirlwind three years, the band has
- [Tim May - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tim-may-guitar/) - Tim May began playing guitar and banjo at age 11, and by thirteen he was performing at the Bluegrass Festival of the United States in Louisville, Kentucky. Tim is respected nationwide as a teacher and clinician. He’s taught at the Nashville Guitar College, South Plains College, and at Nashcamp. In addition, he periodically travels the
- [Dan Boner - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/dan-boner-guitar/) - Dan Boner is a 2018 and 2015 IBMA Mentor Of The Year nominee. In 2000, Dan enrolled at East Tennessee State University, which also happens to be Becky’s alma mater. Both artists were lured by the renowned Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program. In 2010, Dan became the director of that program, wherein
- [Trey Hensley - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/trey-hensley-guitar/) - Trey grew up in eastern Tennessee, one of the cradles of traditional music. He doesn’t seem to have ever doubted what he was meant to do, and in fact, when he was eleven years old, he was brought onstage by Marty Stuart to play with Marty and Earl Scruggs—at the Grand Ole Opry. He was
- [Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/rob-ickes-and-trey-hensley-band-in-residence/) - Based on a mutual love of bluegrass, country, blues, western swing, and other string band music of all kinds, the partnership of dobro player Rob Ickes (who also plays superlative lap steel guitar in the duo on occasion) and acoustic/electric guitarist Trey Hensley continues to delight and astound audiences of traditional American music around the
- [Ned Luberecki - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ned-luberecki-banjo/) - The Becky Buller Band Ned Luberecki is the 2018 IBMA Banjo Player Of The Year and an all – around bluegrass legend. Ned is an incredible music educator. Ned is funny. He was a member of Paul Adkins & The Borderline Band, The Rarely Herd and, most recently, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers for
- [Nate Lee - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/nate-lee-mandolin/) - Nate Lee is a 2015 IBMA Momentum Award winning instrumentalist and renowned teacher of private lessons and music camps. While attending the Bluegrass & Country Music Program at South Plains College, Nate joined the Alan Munde Gazette. He toured with the band for six years and played fiddle on their second release, Ma de To
- [Becky Buller Band - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/becky-buller-band-band-in-residence/) - Becky Buller is 2-time Grammy award-winning songwriter and an 8-time International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award winner who made bluegrass music history in 2016 by becoming the first artist ever to win in both instrumental and vocal categories, as well as the first female to win Fiddle Player Of The Year. Her songs, recorded by
- [Becky Buller - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/becky-buller-fiddle/) - Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from St. James, Minnesota, who has traversed the globe performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on records by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, to name just a few. Becky is a 2-time Grammy award-winning
- [Ellie Davis - Children's Camp](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ellie-davis-kids-camp/) - Ellie Davis was raised in a musical family in Olympia, Washington and started playing music when she was four. She is an accomplished fiddler, guitarist, banjo player and vocalist. She plays in a band with her sister, the Sassafras Sisters. They’ve travelled the west coast playing dances, working with young musicians and recorded an album
- [Paul Lee - Fiddle, Workshops](https://targheemusiccamp.com/paul-lee-fiddle-workshops/) - Paul began violin at age 5 with private classical lessons from symphony concertmistress and Juliard-trained Shirley Lynch. During his youth he was a member of two city symphonies, and was a Featured Soloist with the Santa Maria Symphomy under critically-acclaimed conductor Samuel Gorbach. Later he went on to study Bluegrass and Country Music at South
- [Stringband Class with Ben Winship and Chris Coole](https://targheemusiccamp.com/stringband-class-with-ben-winship-and-chris-coole/) - Open to all stringed instruments. Playing level: should be able to play 3 chord songs in different keys. Students should have some familiarity with old time stringband and bluegrass repertoire, be willing to sing with a group and, if playing a melody instrument, be game to take simple solos. This class will select, arrange and
- [Dan Miller - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/dan-miller-guitar/) - Dan Miller has been the publisher and editor of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine since 1996. He has also co-authored a number of flatpicking books, including: "The Bluegrass Guitar Style of Charles Sawtelle" with Charles Sawtelle, "Flatpicking the Blues" with Brad Davis, "The Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy and Tone" with Brad Davis, and the Eight Volume flatpicking course "Flatpicking Essentials" with Tim May. www.flatpick.com
- [Sharon Gilchrist - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/sharon-gilchrist-mandolin/) - Sharon Gilchrist has long made her home in the American traditional acoustic music scene. Whether she's playing mandolin or upright bass, singing a traditional ballad or performing original material, you hear an artist steeped in traditional Appalachian music relaying those sounds through her own diversified musical lens. Sharon has performed with the Peter Rowan &
- [Andy Hall - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/andy-hall-resonator-guitar/) - Andy Hall graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA with a degree in Music Production and Engineering. While originally an electric guitarist, Andy was immediately drawn to the unique and interesting sound of the resonator guitar when he first heard one almost 20 years ago. He has since gone on to play
- [The Infamous Stringdusters - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/the-infamous-stringdusters-band-in-residence/) - Tradition and innovation provide the interlocking roots of bluegrass and its descendants, a lively dance of elements skipping comfortably from ancient jigs to radio ditties to spacious experimentation. The Infamous Stringdusters joyously embody and carry forward the spirit of Bill Monroe, John Hartford, Earl Scruggs, David Bromberg and other originators in their skilled embrace of this music’s twin gravitational pulls, moving dexterously between homespun legacy and creative expansion, a band firmly grounded in what has come before as they grow strong into tomorrow. www.thestringdusters.com
- [Spencer Bohren - American Songbook Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/spencer-bohren-guitar/) - Ότι η μέθοδος που χρησιμοποιεί για να επηρεάσει το μεταβολισμό Εύκολη αγορά Kamagra Oral Jelly online του ασθενούς σε καλύτερη σεξουαλική απόδοση είναι η είναι γνωστό ότι έχει την μεγαλύτερη επιτυχία. Δεν πρέπει να χρησιμοποιείται για τη θεραπεία άλλων μορφών σεξουαλικών δυσκολιών και η μετατραυματική αρτηριακή απόφραξη αποτελεί το μόνο αρτηριακό αίτιο που έχει ένδειξη
- [Mike Merenda - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mike-merenda-guitar/)
- [Abbie Gardner - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/abbie-gardner-resonator-guitar/)
- [Laurie MacAllister - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/laurie-macallister-singing/) - Laurie MacAllister dreamed of being a singer when she was a little girl – singing songs by Dolly Parton, Sheena Easton, and Olivia Newton-John at the top of her lungs into a hairbrush. A subsequent decade-long case of stage fright prevented her from performing publicly. While studying Industrial Psychology in graduate school at NYU, the
- [Molly Venter - Songwriting](https://targheemusiccamp.com/molly-venter-songwriting/) - www.goodnightmoonshine.com
- [Ruthy Ungar - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ruth-ungar-fiddle/) - www.mikeandruthy.com
- [Fil Pate - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/fil-pate-mandolin/) - Emanating from his many projects is the awareness of Fil’s belief that music can have a powerful influence on the community and each individual listener. Fil is dedicated to the study of Music theory and the art behind crafting Musical performances – Fil is finely tuned into spreading the magic of complexities and simplicity inherent
- [George Jackson - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/george-jackson-banjo/) - George Jackson grew up in New Zealand, on the sound of folk and bluegrass fed in wholesome doses by his musician parents. Moving to Australia as a teen George graduated in 2012 from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a degree in Jazz Violin Performance. As a banjoist George is a winner of both the
- [Sierra Hull - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/sierra-hull-mandolin/) - Sierra Hull has been recognized from age 11 as a virtuoso mandolin-player, astonishing audiences and fellow-musicians alike. Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mind is a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull’s career, but in
- [Mark Lavengood - Resonator Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mark-lavengood-resonator-guitar/) - Mark first saw Michigan dobro player extraordinaire Joe Wilson (of Steppin’ In It) and Drew Howard (multi-instrumentalist, MI natural treasure) perform at the Frederick Meijer Gardens, August, 2005 and was instinctively drawn toward the resonator guitar. Since then, Mark has carved his technique and attack on the instrument through observing the playing and instructions of
- [Tyler Grant - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tyler-grant-guitar/) - Tyler Grant grew up in the sagebrush hills of Southern California. As a teen, he was taken by music & followed this calling to the University, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). A rocker by nature (his early tenure in the Electric Waste Band earned him a
- [Jessie Burns - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jessie-burns-irish-fiddle/) - Jessie Burns Fiddle Class Jessie Burns grew up in England in a large and musical family, surrounded with Irish Culture and music through her Dad’s side of the family. She has been playing multiple instruments, including the violin since the age of 7. Jessie has recorded with many musicians including Gregory Allan Isakov, The Mollie
- [Eric Thorin - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/eric-thorin-bass/) - Eric Thorin is a highly regarded musician/bassist living on the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He can be found on stage in 2018 with Ross Martin in The Matt Flinner Trio, Danny Barnes’ Space Program with Jeff Sipe and Mike Seal, and various touring luminaries such as Jim Hurst, Darol Anger, Blaine Sprouse, Tony Furtado,
- [Simon Leone - Children's Camp](https://targheemusiccamp.com/simon-leone-kids-camp/) - Simon Leone is a fiddler and vocalist from Corbett, Oregon. He’s studying vocal performance and music industry studies at Loyola University in New Orleans. He grew up in a musical family, surrounded by traditional American music, attending festivals and music camps all along the way. As an adult, Simon is turning his wealth of experience
- [Caroline Oakley - Kid's Camp & Dance Caller](https://targheemusiccamp.com/caroline-oakley-kids-camp-dance-caller/) - Caroline Oakley is a musician, dance caller, teacher and community organizer who has been teaching music and calling old-time community square dances for 20 years. She is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in old-time fiddle and and dance. Caroline lives in the town of Corbett, Oregon (just east of Portland) where she teaches as a musical artist-in-residence
- [Chris Coole - Stringband Class](https://targheemusiccamp.com/chris-coole-old-time-banjo/) - Chris Coole got his first banjo when he was 17 years old after falling in love with the sounds of folk and early country music. Today, Chris is known internationally for his clawhammer banjo style, songwriting, and singing. Early on, Chris discovered the joys of busking. His practice halls were the streets and subway of
- [Ross Martin - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ross-martin-guitar/) - Guitarist Ross Martin has performed in concert halls, honky-tonks, theaters, rock clubs, living rooms, on festival stages, television programs and everywhere in between. He grew up in the suburbs of Dallas, TX, with brief stints in East Tennessee, attended the University of North Texas, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies,
- [Reeb Willms - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/reeb-willms-guitar/) - Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms are known to roots music fans across the globe for their soulful harmonies, driving dance tunes, classic original songs, and commitment to the raw truth of rural American music. Both originally from Washington State, they made a home in Portland, Oregon, where they are foundational to the exceptional old-time and
- ["Jerry and Dawg Revisited" with Joe Craven](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jerry-and-dawg-revisited-with-joe-craven/) - The Acoustic Music of Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Let's look at some originals and traditionals of these two icons. Joe Craven recorded and performed with Jerry Garcia & David Grisman from 1990 - 1994 in "Garcia Grisman" and he will bring insight and ideas to your understanding of their music throughout the week. We'll create a
- [John Showman - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/john-showman-fiddle/) - I've made my mark as “one of the very best and most influential fiddle players in Canada” (Steve Pritchard, CIUT 89.5 FM). Over an 20-year career spanning 4,500 shows across North America and Europe, I've become well-known as an exciting and innovative live musician and am in demand as a session player, a sideman and
- [Andrew Collins - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/andrew-collins-mandolin/) - Mando maestro Andrew Collins finds himself – through no actual fault of his own – at the epicentre of Canada’s burgeoning acoustic/roots music scene. He didn’t invent it – but he's certainly been a contributor, having co-founded seriously noteworthy Canadian bands like the Creaking Tree String Quartet, the Foggy Hogtown Boys and, more recently, his
- [Caleb Klauder - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/caleb-klauder-mandolin/) - Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms are known to roots music fans across the globe for their soulful harmonies, driving dance tunes, classic original songs, and commitment to the raw truth of rural American music. Both originally from Washington State, they made a home in Portland, Oregon, where they are foundational to the exceptional old-time and
- [Lindsay Lou - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/lindsay-lou-singing/) - “Guided by life experiences, Lindsay Lou's sound and songwriting continues to evolve and intertwine her sturdy Bluegrass roots with progressive Americana and Folk.” – PBS Named among NPR’s “12 Best Live Performances” in 2015, Lou has long been beloved as a live performer, from Telluride Bluegrass Festival to Stagecoach, Celtic Connections to Australia’s National Folk
- [Big Richard - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/big-richard-band-in-residence/) - The world-class musicians in Big Richard initially convened in 2021 for a festival date. The quartet showed up to the one-off like it had been together for years, bursting with jaw-dropping virtuosity; playfully irreverent stage banter; stunning four-part harmony vocal interlace; imaginative arrangements; a refreshingly eclectic repertoire; and a healthy dose of lady rage. Quickly
- [Melissa Chilinski - Jams, Workshops](https://targheemusiccamp.com/melissa-chilinski-jams-workshops/) - A multi-instrumentalist and artist based in Salt Lake City, Melissa grew up with an early proclivity for entertaining. Dancing, singing, and writing shaped her adolescence and her love of playing music became her full time profession several years ago. Melissa’s seemingly incongruent professional experiences shape her artistry. She has a Masters of Soil Science and
- [Nathan Royal - Guitar, Jams](https://targheemusiccamp.com/nathan-royal-guitar-jams/) - Nathan Royal believes in the transformative power oflive music—not just as an art form, but as a force forbuilding resilient communities. As Executive Director ofHot House West, a Salt Lake City nonprofit, he worksto create opportunities for acoustic musicians at everystage of their journey. His vision emerged from his ownpath: after completing his jazz performance
- [Darol Anger - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/darol-anger-fiddle/) - Fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of
- [Mr. Sun - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/mr-sun-band-in-residence/) - Mr Sun comprises 2 generations of some of the sharpest minds to apply themselves to the American String Band. Legendary fiddler Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent, and is a member of the original "nuclear" generation of pickers who extended Bluegrass, Jazz, and
- [Ben Garnett - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ben-garnett-guitar/) - Ben Garnett is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and music educator based in Nashville, Tennessee. Known for his cross-genre pursuits and versatility, Ben finds deep inspiration in a wide range of musicians, from jazz greats like Jim Hall and Django Reinhardt, to masters of acoustic music like Tony Rice and Edgar Meyer, to highly expressive rock
- [Missy Raines - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/missy-raines-bass/) - GRAMMY® nominated Missy Raines was named 2021 International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year, for the 10th time, more than any other bass player in the history of the organization. She is a bass players’ bass player, a singer, songwriter, teacher, sideman, and bandleader. In addition to the Bass Player awards, she’s received
- [Keith Little - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/keith-little-banjo/) - A native of the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California, Keith is a nationally acclaimed musician, vocalist, recording artist, composer, and producer. Born into a musical family, he was first introduced to string band music by his father, and quickly developed on the guitar, fivestring banjo, mandolin, and fiddle. Shortly after performing his first professional
- [Byron Berline - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/byron-berline-fiddle/) - Byron Berline is a three-time National Fiddle Champion who turned to a musical career after earning a B. A. in Physical Education at the University of Oklahoma. Originally from Oklahoma where he began playing the fiddle at age 5, Byron lived and worked in Los Angeles for 26 years before returning to his home state in 1995. Byron’s
- [Ronnie McCoury - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ronnie-mccoury-mandolin/) - Ronnie McCoury was born in York County, Pennsylvania on March 16, 1967. It was in York County that he made his home for the first 24 years of his life. In January of 1992, Ronnie and his wife Allison made the move to Nashville, Tennessee and it is here they have resided since that time.
- [Cody Kilby - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/cody-kilby-guitar/) - The careers of many child stars are often short-lived when the attention fades; and to continue to stay at the top of their field requires more and more work, often with fewer incentives, many never reach the next level of performance. Not so with Cody Kilby, perhaps because his early success was due to his
- [Alan Bartram - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/alan-bartram-singing/) - Alan Bartram is a bassist, vocalist, and closet guitarist. His Mother taught him to sing and he learned to play the bass by listening to and watching other bassists. If Alan wasn’t a full-time musician, he would be a horticulturist. But, after graduating from college, he decided on a career in music and moved from
- [Jason Carter - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/jason-carter-fiddle/) - Jason Carter was born February 1, 1973 in Ashland, Kentucky. He grew up in Greenup County. His dad started teaching him guitar when he was eight years old, and a few years later he started on mandolin. It was all he wanted to do. Through his high school years, Jason was able to attend several
- [Aidan O'Donnell - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/aidan-odonnell-bass/) - Aidan O'Donnell hails from Glasgow, Scotland. He completed a BA in jazz performance at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he won the prize for Most Promising Performer and was made an Honorary Fellow. Thereafter he moved to London, where he quickly became one of the most in-demand bassists on the scene. In 2008, with the aid of
- [Rob McCoury - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/rob-mccoury-banjo/) - Rob was born April 30, 1971 in York, PA as Robin Floyd McCoury. His earliest memories are of music, especially since it was everywhere around the house. There were picking parties, rehearsals and festivals. Rob went to his first bluegrass festival at Ontalanee Park in Allentown, PA when he was six weeks old. Rob “caught
- [Natalie Padilla - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/natalie-padilla-fiddle/) - Natalie is a two time national fiddle champion (1994 and 2015), has won the Rockygrass Fiddle Contest in 2015, and is the current Kentucky State Fiddle Champion (2022). In addition to being an award winning, in demand performer and teacher in many folk genres and on various instruments, Natalie is an accomplished and established classical
- [Val Mindel - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/val-mindel-singing/) - Val Mindel is a longtime musician, teacher and workshop leader, known for helping singers achieve that close, buzzy harmony that is a pillar of American old-time, bluegrass and early country harmony. She also addresses such indefinables as tone (that high lonesome sound), ornamentation, lead singing and more. She has taught at numerous music camps in
- [Joe Craven - "Creativity" Class](https://targheemusiccamp.com/joe-craven-music-class/)
- [The Travelin' McCourys - Band-in-Residence](https://targheemusiccamp.com/the-travelin-mccourys/) - From a source deep, abundant, and pure the river flows. It’s there on the map, marking place and time. Yet, the river changes as it remains a constant, carving away at the edges, making new pathways, gaining strength as it progresses forward. The Travelin’ McCourys are that river. The McCoury brothers- Ronnie (mandolin) and Rob
- [Ellie Hakansan - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ellie-hakansan-fiddle/) - Ellie Hakanson has played bluegrass all her life, performing with her family band, various regional groups, and most recently, touring internationally for five years with Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. In January 2019, Ellie released her first full length album with Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. The band was nominated in 2018 for IBMA Emerging Artist of
- [Ed Snodderly - Resonator Guitar (Dobro)](https://targheemusiccamp.com/ed-snodderly-resonator-guitar-dobro/) - Eddie Lynn Snodderly was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, to a father who was a Fuller Brush salesman and a mother who was, in his words, a “housewife extraordinaire.” Snodderly’s grandfather was a farmer and old-time fiddler, who, along with his brother, won several ribbons at Knoxville-area fiddlers’ conventions in the 1920s and ’30s.
- [Nokosee Fields - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/nokosee-fields-fiddle/) - Over the last few years, musician, artist, and collaborator Nokosee Fields has proven himself to be one of the most provocative, significant, and capable voices in the North American traditional music scene. A quest for balance shapes his work, whether he’s reconciling the weight of tradition with his creative impulses; challenging the demands and vacuity
- [Sami Braman - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/sami-braman-fiddle/) - Sami Braman (she/her) has been playing the fiddle since she was 6 years old, coming up amid the music festivals and jamming communities of the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant traditional Old-Time music scene. Under the instruction of fiddle tradition-bearer Ruthie Dornfeld, she studied both classical and fiddle music. At 8 she and her long-time musical buddies Leo Shannon and Riley
- [Flynn Cohen - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/flynn-cohen-guitar/) - Acoustic Guitar and mandolin player Flynn Cohen has performed all over the world with many notable acts in traditional and contemporary acoustic music. He can be seen in concert with the American folk band LOW LILY (formerly known as Annalivia), and legendary Irish Accordion player John Whelan, as well as duo shows playing music from his four solo albums. Flynn
- [Leo Shannon - Old Time Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/leo-shannon-old-time-banjo/) - Leo Shannon is a traditional musician from Seattle, Washington currently living in Whitesburg, Kentucky. He learned to play as a boy from older musicians around him and friends his own age, and plays now with The Onlies, John Haywood, Rhys Jones, and others. He is drawn to old music that has passed through many hands and
- [Riley Calcagno - Guitar](https://targheemusiccamp.com/riley-calcagno-guitar/) - Riley Calcagno, one of the brightest talents in American roots music today, has been immersed in traditional music from an early age. Originally from Seattle, he grew up at festivals around the Pacific Northwest learning fiddle directly from old masters of the style. He now feels at home on banjo, guitar, mandolin, and voice as
- [Tristan Scroggins - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tristan-scroggins-mandolin/) - With a signature raw mandolin groove, bold fashion sense, charismatic yet soft spoken confidence, and keen sensitivity to style and artistic innovation, twenty-four-year-old mandolinist Tristan Scroggins is quickly becoming a highly influential voice of both music and community in the world of bluegrass. An old soul with the drive and curiosity of a young person,
- [The Onlies](https://targheemusiccamp.com/the-onlies/) - The Onlies are a young group of old friends who perform together in a stringband. They grew up playing fiddles, guitars, and banjos in their hometowns of Seattle, Washington and Lexington, Virginia. With their latest self-titled recording, the band digs deep into performances of traditional American popular (old time) music. The music moves with a
- [Vivian Leva - Singing](https://targheemusiccamp.com/vivian-leva-singing/) - Vivian Leva’s voice is the sound of living tradition. Raised by parents who absorbed ancient tunes and ballads during visits to legendary old-time musicians, Leva grew up steeped in the Appalachian and country music of her Lexington, VA home. On Time Is Everything, her label debut, Leva earns a spot in the lineage of great
- [Missy Raines and Allegheny](https://targheemusiccamp.com/missy-raines-and-allegheny/) - Allegheny is Ben Garnett on guitar, Eli Gilbert on banjo, Ellie Hakanson on fiddle, and Tristan Scroggins on mandolin. The band is named for the Allegheny highlands of West Virginia where Raines grew up. This band is a significant nod to her deep traditional bluegrass roots. The music is traditional and hard-driving at its core but energized
- [Hazel Royer - Bass](https://targheemusiccamp.com/hazel-royer-bass/)
- [Joy Adams - Banjo](https://targheemusiccamp.com/joy-adams-banjo/)
- [Eve Panning - Fiddle](https://targheemusiccamp.com/eve-panning-fiddle/)
- [Bonnie Sims - Mandolin](https://targheemusiccamp.com/bonnie-sims-mandolin/)
- [Tashi Litch - Children's Camp](https://targheemusiccamp.com/tashi-litch-childrens-camp/) - With their feet firmly planted in rootsy, mountain bluegrass, these brothers from a small Pacific Northwest island brings a new energy to the form with their fast-picking style and brotherly harmonies. Tashi and Kaj Litch have already “blown the roof off” Seattle’s Benaroya Hall with Brandi Carlile and Mike McCready, and entertained standing-room-only crowds at
- [Beginner's Jam Class with Tom Murphy - "Let's Play!"](https://targheemusiccamp.com/beginners-jam-class-with-tom-murphy-lets-play/) - This class is for beginning guitar and mandolin players to build confidence and learn about the joys of jamming and playing with others. We will cover the fundamentals of jamming while learning the songs in the Camp songbook. Major keys, minor keys, 4/4 timing, waltzes, arranging songs, harmony singing, rhythm, groove, kickoffs and endings are

## Pages

- [Index](https://targheemusiccamp.com/) - Targhee Music Camp - Acoustic Music Education Camp in the Tetons
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- [2012 Targhee Music Camp](https://targheemusiccamp.com/2012-targhee-music-camp/)
- [Contact](https://targheemusiccamp.com/contact/)
- [Targhee Music Camp History](https://targheemusiccamp.com/grand-targhee-music-camp-history/) - Camp founders Ben Winship and Tom Garnsey The Targhee Music Camp was the brainchild of Tom Garnsey and local mandolin player, Ben Winship. Winship has been actively involved with the festival from its humble beginnings (in an un-mowed field with a small audience in the rain) to its current status as one of the select
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