Classes and workshops April and May 2020! Spring Greetings. I hope that this newsletter finds you healthy and safe. COVID-19 is causing a huge ripple of tumultuous disruption and harm throughout the world. If you are on the front lines, whether on a check-out stand or an ER room or anywhere in between, my heartfelt thanks. If you or your loved ones or friends have been stricken by this pandemic, my heart goes out to you.

Like so many of us, I’m doing what I can to build resiliency for my family, my neighbors, and as many communities as possible, as we journey through the unknown together. On the music front, here’s what’s coming up: I am about to launch a twelve week session class and invite you to join me in making the rafters (safely) ring across the nation and across the border this Spring, pandemic be damned! 

The Spring 2020 Quebec Session Class is a six-session group Zoom class for intermediate/advanced players who love (!) playing Quebecois dance music and want more pizazz, detail, and stylistic authenticity in their music. Each class will explore two popular Quebec session tunes, delving deeply into the details of ornamentation, bowing, swing, variations, etc., to add sparkle and joie de vivre to your playing! 12 tunes in all! All melody instruments welcome!

Each of the six Zoom classes will be recorded and made available to class members who can’t make the scheduled meeting times. In addition, each class is supplemented by a Google folder with materials about the two tunes explored in that class, including source recordings, learning recordings, sheet music, biographical backgrounds of the folks whose versions we are learning; tune histories, photos, additional related video and  links when available–yowza!

These classes will be conducted primarily in English, with supplementary French-language explanations along the way if folks from Québec sign up! 

SCHEDULE: The six group class sessions meet via ZOOM every other Sunday from 10am-12pm PST. Class dates are April 5 and 19; May 3, 17, and 31; and June 14.

TUITION OPTIONS. I’m offering a bunch of options so that our community can support each other through this pandemic, and so you can do what works best for your schedule, musical interests, and budget:

1. If money is really tight, no worries! There’s a $0-to-whatever sliding scale Pay What You Can option–use it! 
2. If you have enough money to pay your registration AND help pay it forward for someone who can’t, select and purchase an option from the Regular Tuition button drop-down menu and then add a donation with the Pay it Forward donation button. 
3. Otherwise, just use the Regular Tuition button drop-down menu to sign up. 

REGULAR TUITION OPTIONS:

• $140 US for all  6 two-hour Zoom classes AND class folders;
• Can’t make all six Zoom sessions? Sign up to come to any 3 classes of your choice plus access to the related three class folders for $100;
• Can’t make any sessions at all? Sign up for access to class folders ONLY or $80.
• CLASS/PRIVATE LESSON COMBO DISCOUNT PACKAGE: Attend the class-and-folder option for only $80 when  you also sign up for four consecutive 30-minute weekly Skype, Zoom, or Facetime private lessons, with a hefty discount: $40 per 30-min. lesson: total = $240 (30-min. lessons are normally $50).
  

Pre-registration required!  Class starts April 5, so please sign up today!  Private message me on FB if you have questions! Merci!