Enriching lives by preserving traditional music through performance, education, and outreach.
_JPG.jpg)
.png)
Immerse yourself in music at the Indiana Fiddle Frolic! From workshops to jams to performances, you can play and enjoy old time music with fellow music lovers through:
- old time jamming instruction & practice
- instrument workshops
- catered meals
- Teacher "Jam-prise" Show
- square dance
- downtime for practice or jamming
DATES
Friday, Sept 18 5:00pm until Sunday, Sept 20 4:00pm
LOCATION
Cary Camp, 6286 State Road 26 East, Lafayette IN
ACCOMMODATIONS
Bunkhouses or Campground
ACCESSIBILITY
Activities will take place in one central building
GROUPS
New this year, students will belong to three different groups:
1) Level Group, 2) Instrument Group, and 3) Jam Group.
1) Level Groups: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Students will self-assign based on their comfort level of playing along in jams. Level groups will address jam skills needed in each stage of learning.
2) Instrument Groups: Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo, Cello/Bass, Other. Instrument groups will learn how to play the Camp Tunes and address other issues that come up when playing that instrument.
3) Jam Groups: Jam Groups will be assigned by the program director to be mixed levels and mixed instruments. The goal is to apply things you're learning in your Level Group and Instrument Group in a realistic (but safe and controlled) jam setting.
Our Welcoming Culture
American old time music is a vast and varied swath of fiddle-driven folk music that differs regionally across the country. It has been/continues to be influenced by musicians bringing their unique cultural musical traditions along with them as they play together.
As an example, consider that violins have origin stories in Europe while banjos have origin stories in West Africa. Meanwhile, guitars have origins in Spain and Mexico. Thanks to immigrants bringing them or memories of them along to the New World, now the violin/fiddle, banjo, and guitar form a now-classic sound in American Old Time music.
We believe that learning to jam with others in a genre that has been created from so much diversity reflects a vision of our country as a place where strangers with all kinds of different backgrounds can come together for a common purpose and create something beautiful.
The Indiana Fiddle Frolic is a learning event. Learners of all levels are welcome. We want all students feel their safest and best so that they can learn as much as possible.
We understand that learning can only happen when students feel emotionally safe. The nature of learning a new creative thing in the presence of people who already are good at the creative thing can be quite stressful and emotional because of all kinds of personal and interpersonal dynamics.
Therefore, we are intentional about encouragement, community, and inclusion in the way we hire staff, choose our venue, and develop our schedule, and interact at the event.
We intend to model how to integrate encouragement, community, and inclusion in our musical life so that we can all increase our capacity to bring these qualities into our families, friendships, and communities.
As such, behaviors that exclude or discriminate against others on the basis of identity, race, gender, sexual expression, age, disability, and such will not be tolerated.
TL;DR: All who have welcoming hearts are welcome here.
Please let us know what modifications would make your experience the best it can be.
We want to do what we can to ensure your unique needs are met.
If you have further questions about our welcoming culture or any other aspect of the Frolic, please contact program director Allie Burbrink at indianafiddlefrolic@gmail.com.
