Mondays, 7:00-8:15 pm, beginning September 12
$120.00 advance / $130.00 after September 5
*Classes will not be held on 10/3, make-ups on 10/24
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We'll continue spending time on learning new tunes and, along the way, explore ways to vary it within various styles. We'll look at an Appalachian Old-Time tune or two and explore the way we vary it with bowings and melodic interpretations. And we'll look at Celtic tunes and explore some of the ornamentations and variations found within that repertoire. We'll work to expand our knowledge of chords, scales, and music theory as it applies to playing the tunes.
Erik Hoffman spends his time calling
Old-Time Country Dancing and playing music (fiddle, guitar, voice,
mandolin, bodhran, and other odds and ends). Erik became interested in
traditional music and dance when he returned to his home town of Santa
Barbara in 1980. Friends dragged him to the contra dances, and he became
addicted. In 1985 he called his first dance.
In 1987, Erik took
up the fiddle. Three weeks later, on a dare, he competed in the Santa
Barbara Old Time Fiddle Contest and won third place in beginning fiddle
in a field of three. The following year he place first in intermediate
fiddle. In 1990, Erik came in third in advanced traditional singing.
Traveling
all over the state, Erik has become well known from Arcata to San
Diego, and from Carson City, Nevada, to the Bay Area. He has also toured
the United States extensively, on both coasts, and in between. He has
been staff at a number of festivals, including the Bay Area Country
Dance Society's American Week, Family Week, and Spring Weekend (Monte
Toyon); CD*NY's Hudson Guild; Sacramento's Echo Summit; California
Traditional Music Society's Solstice and New Year's festivals; San Luis
Obispo radio KCBX's Live Oak Music Festival; New Mexico Folk Music &
Dance's Memorial Day Weekend; and Seattle's Slugs at Sunrise Music and
Dance Camp.
Erik loves the spirit and joy that is passed along with traditional music and dance, and loves to share his enthusiasm.
Visit Erik's website