Und hier sind die Dozenten für 2012 aus den USA, England, Italien und Deutschland:
Bill Evans (USA) - Banjo
Rüdiger Helbig (D) - Banjo
John Jürgen Biller (D) - Banjo
John Dowling (UK) - Banjo
Jimmy Heffernan (USA) - Dobro
Massimo Gatti (I) - Mandoline
Rico Waldmann (D) - Gitarre
Anna Dowling (UK) - Fiddle
Lest hier Näheres dazu:
Bill Evans
www.billevansbanjo.com
(Bluegrass-Banjo)
Bill Evans has taught thousands of bluegrass banjo players in both group and private lessons in a performing career that has extended across thirty-five years of accomplishments. The author of Banjo For Dummies, Bill has taught at most every major banjo and bluegrass camp and workshop in the world and for the last ten years he has co-hosted his own annual camp, the NashCamp Banjo Camp, each fall in the Nashville area. When he is not out on the road teaching or performing, he typically maintains a full schedule of private teaching out of his home studio in Albany, California. He has taught five hundred students just in the San Francisco Bay Area alone!
Bill has spent a lifetime learning from direct and extensive one-on-one interaction with his own mentors: Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Alan Munde, Tony Trischka and Bill Keith. He has shared what he’s learned along the way through his Off The Record and brand new All Strings Considered columns in Banjo Newsletter magazine and in four critically acclaimed DVD projects for AcuTab Publications. He is also the co-author of Parking Lot Picker’s Songbook: Banjo Edition from Mel Bay Publications. He is known not only for his innovative original compositions and progressive playing techniques utilizing both melodic and single-string styles but for his complete understanding of traditional Scruggs/Crowe/Osborne-based bluegrass banjo.
Over the years, Bill has performed with David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Laurie Lewis, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Lynn Morris, Jim Hurst, Jody Stecher, Tony Trischka, Megan Lynch, Alan Munde and Kathy Kallick in addition to co-leading the California-based bands Bluegrass Intentions and Due West and leading his own Bill Evans String Summit. These days, he tours internationally with his own solo show The Banjo in America and appears as a special guest with such groups as The Contribution, Railroad Earth, the DePue Brothers, and others. His work as producer on the Rounder Records CD Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts by Suzanne Thomas earned him a Recorded Event of the Year finalist award nomination from the International Bluegrass Music Association and his Rounder CD Native and Fine, featuring David Grier, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton and Jason Carter, was a Honorable Mention for Acoustic Instrumental Recording of the Year from the National Association of Independent Record Disbtributors. His CD Bill Evans Plays Banjo, featuring Darol Anger, Rob Ickes and many others, graced several annual “Best of” lists, including The Chicago Tribune and the County Sales newsletter and generated the Top 10 bluegrass hit “Heavy Traffic Ahead.”
Bill will release his third solo recording in March 2012. In Good Company features Bill with the Infamous Stringdusters, Joy Kills Sorrow, Tim O’Brien, Stuart Duncan, David Grier, Mike Marshall and many, many others.
Bill holds a Master’s Degree in Music from the University of California, Berkeley and completed the coursework for the PhD. He has taught in the music departments at San Francisco State University, the University of Virginia and Duke University. Among his most well-known banjo students are Chris Pandolfi (The Infamous Stringdusters), Greg Liszt (Crooked Still), Wes Corbett (Joy Kills Sorrow), Erik Yates (Hot Buttered Rum) and Jayme Stone (From African to Appalachia).
Rüdger Helbig
www.ruediger-helbig.de
(Bluegrass-Banjo)
Rüdiger Helbig gilt seit über 30 Jahren als Deutschlands renommiertester 5-String-Banjo Spieler. Auf zahlreichen CD Produktionen sowie in Film und Fernsehen ist er zu hören und zu sehen. Wenn Jemandem der Verdienst gebührt, das 5-String-Banjo in Deutschland populär gemacht zu haben, dann sicherlich Rüdiger Helbig. Er ist tätig als Autor zahlreicher Banjo-Lehrbücher oder, wie seit neuestem, als Produzent einer Banjo-Lehr DVD.
Auch international, besonders in den USA, genießt Rüdiger Helbig höchstes Ansehen in der Bluegrass- & Country-Szene. Er spielte mit den Größen des Business wie z.B. Tony Trischka, Bela Fleck, Pete Wernick oder wie aktuell auf seiner neuen CD
"Back To The Banjo"
mit seinem Freund Byron Berline oder Rob Ickes.
Mit seiner Band "Huckleberry Five" tourt er ganzjährig durch Europa und begeistert dabei seine Fans
John Dowling
www.jdowling.com
(Bluegrass-Banjo)
At 14 John acquired his first banjo and, from that moment on, he’s devoted all his efforts to perfecting his unique way to make music.While studying A Level music at Truro College, John met keyboard player Jez Wing. They seemed to bond musically, writing new and exciting pieces for banjo and piano. They had no preconceptions stylistically on which to base their compositions, but open minds and varied musical backgrounds led to such interesting pieces as “Made with Blue and Red”, which can be found on the Black Cat Theory debut CD, (the name they eventually chose for themselves). In 2000, they entered the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award to simply showcase their material. To their surprise they won first place.
Shortly after, they added drums and double base to the line-up to give a fuller sound. They played at such places as Cambridge Folk Festival and Modal, as well as being given free recording studio time by the BBC. However, due to educational and other commitments, the band members had to go their separate ways.
John moved to the North West where the music scene is buzzing. He teamed up with ACLAIM (Acoustically Live and Inclusive Music), teaching banjo and doing school workshops. In July 2002, he read an article about The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, which sponsors eight instrumental contests including the USA National Bluegrass Banjo Championship. He made a fleeting comment to Bryn Williams, Chairman of ACLAIM, saying that he would love to enter that contest.
To his surprise, Bryn told him that he would sponsor him to go. Previous winners include such big names as Mark O'Connor, Alison Kraus and Chris Thile.So two months later John went out to the States on his own, with nothing but his banjo and a bag, to see how the experts would judge his ability. Although he was up against the likes of the great Jeff Scroggins – past two time winner – he still managed to win the first prize, taking home with him a very large trophy and a new banjo worth $4500.
John is the first European to have ever won this award.
In 2006, John was picked by the BBC to feature along side such musicians as Jools Holland, Courtney Pine and Mark Knopfler in a 6 part prime time documentary called ‘Play it Again’. He had to work closely with British stand up comedian Frank Skinner for 10 weeks, until the celebrity entered the USA National Banjo Championships. The same award that John had one 1st prize in four years earlier. Frank Skinner enjoyed his new found love for the Banjo so much that he continued fortnightly lessons with John after the show was broadcast.
Jürgen Biller
(Bluegrass-Banjo)
- Banjospieler seit über 30 Jahren
- Traditionelles Bluegrassbanjo, stark beeinflusst von Earl Scruggs.
- Mitglied von bekannten Bands wie Hard Times, Helmut & the Hillbillies
- Tourneen mit amerikanischen Bluegrassgrößen Jim Eanes und Bill Harrell
- Seit 10 Jahren Mitglied in der europäischen Formation Four Wheel Drive
- Auftritte in ganz Europa und U.S.A.
- Tonträger mit diversen Bands und Studiosessions
- Lehrer bei Workshops auf internationalen Festivals
Jimmy Heffernan
www.jimmyheffernan.net
(Dobro)
Jimmy Heffernan is a highly respected Nashville session player, sideman, and producer. He’s a versatile mult-instrumentalist, and one of the true masters of the resonator guitar.
Jimmy also happens to be an outstanding music instructor who loves to teach, and has a real gift for it.
Jim started playing on the road in 1974 with a Bluegrass band called “Raintree”, from western Massachusetts, touring full time up and down the east coast and playing lots of festivals and clubs.
Jim played Dobro® with “Transatlantic Bluegrass”, a popular French Bluegrass band that acted as Bill Kieth’s backup band whenever he did his European touring. One of the highlights of that period was Transatlantic Bluegrass’ appearance on a PBS special called Bill Monroe and Friends.
In 1980 Jim joined “Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers”, again as Dobro® player. He toured with Sparks for two years, helping record two albums for Rebel Records and two more for Old Homestead Records.
Over the next six years Jim played with Red Allen and Bill Grant and Dehlia Bell and started learning to play the pedal steel guitar( In bars, where it was meant to be played}.
1988 was a momentous year for Jimmy Heffernan.He played electric guitar for Doug Kershaw for a year, and then joined Joe Diffie’s band, where he stayed 9 years. Jim reflects fondly on this time: ” We toured every major venue and appeared as a members of the Grand Ole Opry. We played lots of television, including The Grand Ole Opry Live, Regis and Kathy Lee, The Tonight Show, Good Morning America , and Hee Haw, to name but a few. Joe sold over eight million records during this time.”
Jim’s latest recording project was the 2003 release, The Resocasters, on which he collaborated with Dobro® legend Mike Auldridge pedal steel guitar ace Hal Rugg.
These days, Jimmy Heffernan is shifting gears, devoting more time to one of the things he loves best, teaching up-and-coming players. If you get a chance, be sure to attend one of Jim’s highly popular Dobro® Workshops.
Massimo Gatti
www.mandolin.it
(Mandoline)
Massimo Gatti can be considered one of the best modern European mandolinists. Fifty-two, from Milan, he has developed a considerable set of technical baggage as far as bluegrass is concerned, and this is a great passion that he has not yet forgotten. He started his musical training at the Conservatory, where he approached the piano at a very young age. Then acoustic guitar and then immediately afterward – we’re in 1975 – he was thunderstruck by the mandolin. In 1977 he founded Bluegrass Stuff, the first Italian bluegrass band, which is still active, and started up numerous projects all aimed at music that is rigorously acoustic. He concentrated on the study of Composition at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan and at the same time debuted with Abacus, an acoustic trio which he appeared with many times on the Italian television channel, RAI. His return to North American music came about with Hot Stuff, a group that made a claim for itself in Europe as well as the United States and Japan at the end of the eighties. Hanging out on the Milan musical scene resulted in important encounters: first with Claudio Sanfilippo, a refined songwriter with whom he appeared in Sanremo in competition for the Premio Tenco award in 1985 and in 1996, then with Riccardo Zappa, one of the most interesting guitarists on the Italian scene as well as editor of the series Collana Strumento for the DDD label. He did the CD “Frangenti” with him, and this recording won enthusiastic praise from critics all over the world in 1990. In this CD Gatti successfully explores the territory of composition, drawing inspiration from the atmosphere of so-called “New Acoustic Music”, but giving preference to melodic elements which are more like spectacular technical displays. It was surprising when David Grisman, authority and tutelary sprit of modern mandolinists, recognized Gatti’s work in the preface to the CD: "... Massimo Gatti is one of the new breed of mandolin players all over the world who are re-reinventing mandolin music, and I congratulate him".
His piece Frangenti that gives the title to the album was recorded in 1995 by the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble for their debut album Plectrasonic and by George Winston on his last album "Plains", which got a Grammy nomination.
Over the past few years he has worked on four different fronts: an ensemble with the name Massimo Gatti Quintet; Euro Grass, a bluegrass group with French, Spanish and Austrian musicians; the trio Carolan Consort, inspired by the music of the famous Irish harpist. And he continues to play with Bluegrass Stuff, who celebrate their 30th anniversary this year.
So far he has recorded eleven CDs, and played on at least ten others with Rino Zurzolo, Aldo Navazio, Riccardo Zappa, Claudio Sanfilippo, Jens Krüger, etc. We should also note that he collaborated on Fabrizio De Andrè’s (the Italian most famous songwriter) latest recording, Anime Salve, in the very beautiful opening piece Princesa.
Anna Dowling
www.myspace.com/johndowlingandannakelly
Fiddle
Fiddle mistress. Anna has been playing fiddle for 17 years. Having trained as a classical violinist and completing her degree in classical music at Liverpool University, Anna brings sweet and flawless fiddling to the Hill Folk. Anna is a qualified secondary music teacher, and has been recently working on her performing and private fiddle teaching. She has worked with many different bands and quartets over the years, playing Irish, Classical, Jazz and Bluegrass. Anna also reached the semi-finals of the young folk awards with the band Dulaman, who supported Seth Lakeman, Eliza Carthy and Sandi Thom amongst many others. Anna is also an accomplished singer, and loves singing the twelve bar and swing songs. She is also a demon harmoniser. She likes anything from the 1950s backwards. Anna plays a 1890s JTL fiddle, that has many scratches...each with a story to tell.
Huckleberry 5
www.ruediger-helbig.de
(Band-Workshop)
Huckleberry Five wurde von Rüdiger 1996 gegründet. Seit 2012
spielt die Band in neuer Besetzung: Rico Waldmann, Voc. und Flatpicking Guitar,
Willie Jones Leadvocal und Bass, Philipp Schöppe Loeadvocal und Mandoline (von der Band B471) als ständiger Gast, Voc. und Fiddle,
Rüdiger Helbig am 5-string Banjo und Dobro.
Rüdiger ist Bandleader und gilt als renomiertester Banjospieler
Europas. Da er seit mehr als dreißig Jahren auch noch als Studiomusiker
tätig ist, kann man sein Banjo auf verschiedensten Platten-, Film- und
Fernsehproduktion hören. Sämtliches Unterrichtsmaterial für Banjo in Deutschland
entstammt seiner Feder. Über ihn großmächtig zu berichten, wäre wie
Eulen nach Athen zu tragen!
Huckleberry Five ist wahrscheinlich Deutschlands einzige Profi-Bluegrassband, die
europaweite Konzerttourneen unternimmt. Sie zeichnet sich durch
einzigartige Arrangements auch von Liedern, die nicht dem üblichen
Bluegrasskontex entstammen, aus. Ein perfekter Harmoniegesang
unterstützt die Leadsänger Rico, Willie und Philipp. Solistisch ist
"atemberaubend" noch ein gelinder Ausdruck ihrer Fähigkeiten.
Kontakt für weitere Informationen:
Organisation / Anmeldung: Adiaha Bürkmiller - 0176-23640702
banjocamp@gmx.de
