Frank Vignola
World-renowned jazz guitarist, Frank Vignola teaches about the importance of good warm up’s and jam time. He will review and demonstrate the important fingerboard studies, which connect your ears to your fingers while connecting them to songs. Jamming is an important part of Frank’s workshops so be prepared to play, play, play.
Vinny Raniolo
Accomplished gypsy jazz musician and educator, Vinny Raniolo will focus on opening up your ears and training your fingers to develop smooth movements through commonly played chord progressions on the rhythm guitar. With just a few new moves you can enhance any song by bringing out its inherent feeling of swing.
Olli Soikkeli
Finland’s guitar sensation, Olli Soikkeli will conduct and in-depth Django style workshop including discussion and demonstration of Django’s riffs, expressions and secrets. Learn how Django’s unique style was expressed through vibrato, tremolo and his two-finger horizontal approach.
Matt Flinner
Matt Flinner has made a career out of playing acoustic music in new ways. Starting out as a banjo prodigy who was playing bluegrass festivals before he entered his teens, Flinner later took up the mandolin, won the National Banjo Contest at Winfield Kansas in 1990, and took the mandolin award there the following year. Since then, he has become recognized as one of the premiere mandolinists as well as one of the finest new acoustic/roots music composers today.