First Class Reflections

A few weeks have passed since Leslie and I held our first bluegrass jam class on February 5, 2019. It was a big milestone for us–the result of several months of work in which we have established Wayward Strings and, with a great deal of help from the Wernick Method organization and mentors like Leigh and Gilbert Nelson, learned the basics of running a bluegrass jam class.

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Book Review: Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey in the American South, by Emma John

Cover of Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey…

In the spring of 2017, I sat down to lunch one day at Pete Wernick’s Bluegrass Camp in Boomer, NC, and I met Emma John, a journalist and writer from London. Emma, a classically-trained violinist, had traveled to North Carolina from the UK to learn about bluegrass, and she has now written a book about her adventures. Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey in the American South is the book and I encourage you to go out and find a copy and start reading!

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