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Mississippi John Hurt Workshop with Scott Ainslie
Venue: Hotel Floyd, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Scott Ainslie
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Class
Cost:
Single Workshop: $30.00 Both Workshops: $50.00

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Description:
Hotel Floyd presents a "Mississippi John Hurt Workshop" with Scott Ainslie on Saturday, November 30, 2019.

Even before John Hurt was re-discovered in 1963 at the age of 71, his 1927 and 1928 recordings had influenced a small coterie of guitar aficionados. Hurt’s re-introduction to a wide audience at the height of the folk music revival allowed him to play a pivotal role in establishing fundamental fingerpicking techniques that left their mark on the music of everyone from Doc Watson to Beck, Bob Dylan to Bruce Cockburn, Jerry Garcia, John Sebastian, and many others.

In this workshop we’ll explore Hurt’s repertoire while focusing on his right and left-hand techniques with a special eye to establishing the right/picking hand muscle patterns necessary to maintain a steady alternating bass while developing syncopated independence on the high strings to play melodies.

When we’re done, you’ll understand what Hurt did, how to begin to train your hands to do it, and have a great appreciation for a player who influenced country blues and folk guitarists of all sorts.

Steeped in traditional music from both sides of the color line, Scott Ainslie is a renowned acoustic blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He learned southern old-time ballads, banjo and fiddle from senior musicians in North Carolina and West Virginia and blues from his black elders in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. His roots are deep.

Link: https://cattailmusic.com/

Tickets for a single workshop are $30.00 and $50.00 for both.

To reserve your spot and pay for the workshop online, visit: https://handmademusicschool.com/event/guitar-workshops-with-scott-ainslie-2019-11-30/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets.

Blues guitarist Scott Ainslie will present two guitar workshops on Saturday followed by the evening concert at 7:30 pm. The morning workshop is "Mississippi John Hurt" from 10:30 am to noon and the afternoon workshop is "Intro to Slide Guitar" from 1:30-3:00 pm. All events will take place at Hotel Floyd.

For more information on the concert, visit: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=523412.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/dGlm1Fn.jpg.

For more information on the workshop, visit: https://cattailmusic.com/floyd/ or https://handmademusicschool.com/event/guitar-workshops-with-scott-ainslie-2019-11-30/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets.

For more information on Hotel Floyd, visit: http://www.hotelfloyd.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/hotelfloyd or call 540-745-6080.