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Fur Peace Ranch at Wanee 2012!
This years Wanee Festival will welcome Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch to the festival site. The award winning Fur Peace Ranch… now in it’s 15th year has made a name for itself and set the bar for guitar/music instruction.
Jorma Kaukonen, one of the founding members of Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane, is a renowned guitar teacher. In 1998, after 35+ years of teaching, which began in the 1960's while he was in attendance at Santa Clara University, Jorma and his wife Vanessa founded the Fur Peace Ranch to solidify, expand and preserve American Folk/Roots and Blues music styles by providing unparallelled instruction. At the Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio, which has become North America's premier center for the study of folk/roots guitar, Jorma enlists himself and other World-Class musicians to pass along their experience, techniques and theories to budding musicians in an intimate setting over a long weekend in the tranquil, rolling hills of Southeast Ohio. Artists such as Warren Haynes, Tim Reynolds, Tommy Emmanuel, David Bromberg, Larry Campbell, Chris Smither, Pete Huttlinger, GE Smith, Stefan Grossman, Chris Hillman, Larry Coryell, Bill Nershi, George Porter Jr., Herb Pedersen, Peter Rowan, Oteil Burbridge, just to name a few, and thousands of students have all passed through the gates of the Fur Peace Ranch. While the Fur Peace Ranch focuses and specializes in folk/roots guitar, instruction is also offered in the areas of jazz, rock, and blues guitar as well as other instruments.
Fur Peace Ranch, for the very first time, now takes a festival version of their workshops On-The-Road to the Wanee Festival. Festival attendees will be able to participate in Guitar Workshops with Jorma Kaukonen, Bass Workshops with Jack Casady, Percussion Workshops with Mickey Hart and other workshops and Q&A sessions with this years Wanee performers all hosted by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Jorma Kaukonen. These sessions will provide Wanee attendees a very rare and unique opportunity to “peek behind the veil” and hear first-hand from the musicians themselves about the music we all love so much!
We hope you will be able to join us for one of these very special events!
Workshops
Due to the limited time available for these workshops and to help best convey the nature, quality and intimacy of Fur Peace Ranch these workshops will be limited to 25 students per session (unless otherwise noted). Workshops/Clinics are open to all qualified musicians. Applications will be reviewed on a first come first serve basis.
Guitar students will need to bring an acoustic guitar along with them to the festival (and workshop).
Bass students will need to bring their bass guitar to the festival (and workshop). Bass amps will be provided to students for the class session.
All workshops $75*
Q & As
Our Q & A sessions are open to everyone. These will fundamentally be an open discussion between a moderator (Jorma) and a specified performer about music, music history, the culture of music and its inter-relation to social history. Their discussion will be followed by a Q & A session from the audience (or participants will be able to submit questions). We expect that these discussions will be educational, informative and fun! (and a great way to preview future programs that will be offered by the newly formed Fur Peace Ranch Center for Art and Culture).
All Q & As $50*
Focus on the things you love, listen with an open heart, and the music will speak for itself! - Jorma Kaukonen
*Please note:
Double Dose of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady
1pm – 2pm -Friday April 20
A special Fur Peace Ranch/Wanee workshop for guitar and bass students. Jorma and Jack will combine their teaching efforts and give this rare guitar/bass class. Guitar and Bass classes will be held together for a unique duo workshop that brings together the music of Tuna that you’ve always wanted to learn.
If you want to learn the secrets of this dynamic duo's 50+ career....this is your chance.
Open to Guitar and Bass players. An equal number of each will be accepted. Limited to 8 students per class Don't miss this opportunity!
Jorma hosts a special Q&A with Warren Haynes
2:30 – 3:30 pm Friday, April 20
Warren Haynes, who is unquestionably one of the best and most respected guitarists on the scene today, sits down for an intimate chat with Jorma on Friday April 20th 2:30 – 3:30 PM.
Warren Haynes' career spans over 30 years from his beginning days as lead guitarist for David Allen Coe. He has played with the who's who of the music world as a member of The Allman's Brothers Band, The Dickey Betts Band, The Dead, Phil Lesh & Friends, creating his own musical outlets in the form of Gov't Mule and The Warren Haynes Band. Throw in the addition of hosting an Annual Christmas Jam in Ashville, NC, for Habitat for Humanity which presents many of the best performers of our time, and you've cooked up one heck of a resume!
Come join Warren and Jorma for tales of their musical journeys!
Buy Tickets Here for the Jorma and Warren Haynes Q & A Session
Planet Earth Drum with Mickey Hart
4:30pm – 5:30pm - Friday April 20
Discussion on Rhythm & Percussion in history and across cultures
Mickey Hart, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, is a percussionist and ethnomusicologist. Mickey has been influential in preserving global music traditions, working with archivists and ethnomusicologist at the American Folklife Center at Library of Congress, of which he is now a board member. His album, Planet Drum, remained number #1 on the Billboard World Music Chart for 26 weeks and received a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Mickey has also written books on the history and tradition of drumming throughout the world and across cultures.
Join Mickey on Friday April 20th from 4:30 – 05:30 PM as he leads you on a world tour of percussion history and rhythms!
Bring a Drum!
Open to everyone.
Buy Tickets Here for the Mickey Hart Planet Drum Session
Wake up with Oteil Burbridge
10 am – 11:30 am Saturday April 21
Bass Improvisation workshop/Clinic
Oteil Burbridge, is a Grammy Award-nominated American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar with The Allman Brothers Band from 1989 through the present day. He has played with countless others, from Aquarium Resque Unit, Bill Kruetzman of the Grateful Dead to the Tedeschi-Trucks Band. Oteil has been recognized over the years for his use of scat-singing and his use of bass chords in his improvisational solos. Join Oteil Saturday from 10:00 – 11:30 AM as he demonstrates how to navigate the universe of improvisational bass guitar.
Sign Up Here for the Oteil Burbridge Bass Session
