Acoustic Music Lessons, Camps, and Festivals in New Hampshire
Lessons are listed first, followed by camps and then festivals. If you or know someone who should be added to this list or an acoustic music camp happening in New Hampshire, please contact us.
Lessons - Schools or Stores
Acoustic Outfitters - Stratham, NH
Blue Mountain Guitar Center - West Lebanon, NH
Concord Community Music School - Concord, NH
Ed Kydd School of Guitar - Nashua, NH
Exeter Music - Exeter, NH
The Folk Cellar - Wolfeboro, NH (Songwriters workshop Tim LaRoche from Nashville on Sunday March 7th)
Manchester Community Music School - Manchester, NH
Mountain Top Music Center - Conway, NH
The Music Clinic - Belmont, NH
The Music Mill - Milton Mills, NH
Vintage Fret - Ashland, NH
Strings & Things - Concord, NH
Studio 99 - Nashua, NH
Sutton Strings - Sutton, NH
Vermont Instruments School of Lutherie - Norwich, VT (Complete intensive instrument building workshops, make an instrument start to finish.)
Lessons - Individual
Beverly Woods and Seth Austen - hammered dulcimer, mandolin, bouzouki, fiddle, banjo, fretted dulcimer, acoustic guitar - Ashland and Wolfeboro, NH
Randy Browning - Guitar - Stratham, NH & Rollinsford, NH (near So. Berwick, ME)
Ellen Carlson - Fiddle - Tilton, NH
Christian Glines - Guitar - Brattleboro, VT
Lincoln Meyers - Guitar - Stratham, NH
Carolyn Parrott - Fiddle/Clawhammer Banjo - Hopkinton, NH
Bob Peelstrom - Banjo - Meredith, NH
Rahel - Folk guitar: Finger styles, rhythm, , blues, songwriting, theory & appreciation - Milford, NH
Camps
Fiddleheads Acoustic Music Camp - September
Fiddleheads Acoustic Music Camp is for musicians of all levels and ages and offers a weekend of instruction, fun, and community for individuals that play instruments such as fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, hammer dulcimer, viola, cello, piano and other acoustic instruments. Coaches in 2009 included Seth Austen,Susie Burke, Ellen Carlson, Kathy Sommer (Zimpfer), David Surrette, Ryan Thomson, Beverly Woods and DARYL ANGER, exceptional fiddler, composer, producer and educator.
A highlight of the weekend is the band class. Students form bands of various styles. For example: Irish, Old Timey, Blues, Bluegrass, or Jazz. They then select tunes to play and develop their "act" with the help of an instructor. On Saturday night a concert is performed with everyone having a grand time. The performance is sometimes followed by a dance and definitely some jamming into the night.
WUMB's Summer Acoustic Music Week - July and August
Geneva Point Conference Center, Lake Winnipesaukee - Moultonboro, NH
Join us for a "week of acoustic heaven" -- the Fourteenth Annual Summer Acoustic Music Week (SAMW), from July 12-18, 2009 or from August 16-22, 2009. Produced by WUMB Radio. It's a week of instruction in voice, song-writing, fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar, blues styles, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, sound reinforcement, music theory & singing and more.
Elementary to advanced instruction with great instructors. Evenings with jam sessions, concerts and folk dancing.
Acoustic Music Festivals
Hayseed Festival - July - Franconia, NH
Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival - July - Cornish, ME
Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival July - Campton, NH