ABOUT ZOOM

If you’re new to Zoom, before you can attend the workshop you will need to make sure you have a Zoom account, which you can get at https://zoom.us/, and have downloaded and tested the Zoom client for whatever device you’re going to be using. You can find Zoom tutorials for getting started using Zoom at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697.

You should also test your audio and video beforehand. Please don’t interrupt the workshop to ask how to use Zoom. You will be automatically muted when you enter the meeting, and we ask that you use the chat window to ask questions, as there may be a lot of people in the workshop.

ABOUT JOE K. WALSH

Hailed by Nashville’s Music Row magazine for his “lickety-split mandolin work” and by Vintage Guitar magazine as “brilliant,” Joe K. Walsh is one of the best mandolinists of his generation. Walsh is known for his exceptional tone and taste, and his collaborations with acoustic music luminaries, including legendary fiddler Darol Anger, flatpick guitar hero Scott Nygaard, folk legend Jonathan Edwards, and pop/grass darlings Joy Kills Sorrow, have taken him all over the musical and figurative map. An avid mandolin educator, Joe is a mandolin instructor at the Berklee College of Music and teaches regularly at music camps throughout North America and beyond.

ABOUT SCOTT NYGAARD

For the last 30 years, Grammy-winning guitarist Scott Nygaard has been one of the most inventive and influential flatpicking guitarists in the bluegrass/acoustic music scene. His solos, a seamless amalgam of bluegrass, folk, and jazz influences, shift easily from breathtaking virtuosity to soulful melodic musings and his accompaniment is always intriguing, supportive, and propulsive. In addition to two Rounder recordings and four self-produced collaborations, Scott was the guitarist on a number of recordings that have been extremely influential on the contemporary acoustic music scene: Chris Thile’s Leading Off, Tim O’Brien’s Red on Blonde, Jerry Douglas’s Slide Rule, and the Republic of Strings’s Generation Nation. Downbeat magazine called him “a phenomenally talented stylist.”