CROMA Festival - the Central Rockies Old-Time Music Association!

2011 Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival

2011 FESTIVAL LINEUP

Featuring:

Rafe and Clelia Stefanini

Kim and Jim Lansford

The Prairie Acre (Friday)

The Soda Rock Ramblers

Jason Dilg

The Jaspers (Friday)

Dave Brown & Friends

Virginia Dale Polecats

Anita Dolen

Nine Dollar Shawl

Chris Kermiet

Hoofin' High Country Cloggers with Two Thin Dimes

This summer, come on out for the Central Rockies' only old-time music festival! The second annual Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival will be held at Oskar Blues in Lyons, CO on July 15-17, 2011. The festival will showcase traditional forms of fiddle and banjo-focused music with performances, workshops, and dance.

We're proud to annouce this year's headliners, who will be joined by great Central Rockies bands throughout the day. The Prairie Acre will kick things off Friday evening, the Stefaninis will headline Saturday night, and all will be followed with a late night square dance in the barn, called by Chris Kermiet with music by Nine Dollar Shawl.

Workshops for all instruments and age groups will be offered again. The afternoon and evening will be filled with performances, jamming, a square dance, and socializing, eating and drinking! Oskar Blues has indoor and outdoor space for music, jamming and dancing, and is a full-service restaurant and bar. Nearby camping will be available, along with tons of other space to jam within walking distance.

FRIDAY	Oskar Blues
8:00 - 8:45 pm	The Jaspers
9:15 - 11:30 pm	The Prairie Acre
After show	Jamming

SATURDAY	Oskar Blues
	Workshops
9:00 - 11:00 am	~ Beg Clawhammer Banjo @ Birddog Press, 324 Main St. ~ Old-Time, 2-finger Banjo @ Oskar Blues, upstairs ~ Ozark Fiddle Tunes and Guitar Accompaniment for Intermediate Players @ Oskar Blues, downstairs
11:00 - 1:00 pm	~ Beginning Old-Time Fiddle @ Birddog Press, 324 Main St. ~ Advanced Old-Time Fiddle @ Oskar Blues, downstairs

12:30-2:30 pm	Kids' Activities
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Touch the Instruments (outside)
1:30 - 2:30 pm	The Songbirds (Oskar Blues, downstairs)


11:15-4:45 pm	Music @ the Old Time Barn
11:15 - 11:45 am	Kids
12:00 - 12:45 pm	Virginia Dale Polecats
1:00 - 1:45 pm	Dave Brown Band
2:00 - 2:45 pm	Jason Dilg
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Anita Dolen Band
4:00 - 4:45 pm	Hoofin' High Country Cloggers w/Two Thin Dimes

5:00 on...	Music @ the Downstairs Bar
5:00 - 6:00 pm	Beginners' jam with Gina Andreucci (downstairs) Clogging workshop with Andrea Earley Coen (barn)
6:00 - 6:45 pm	Kim and Jim Lansford
7:00 - 7:45 pm	Soda Rock Ramblers
7:45 - 8:00 pm	Live auction with Larry Edelman
8:00 - 9:15 pm	Rafe and Clelia Stefanini
9:30 – 11:00 pm	Square dance (barn) with $9 Shawl and Chris Kermiet (cake walk at 10pm!)

SUNDAY	The Stone Cup
9:00 - 12:00 pm	FREE Jamming

About the Workshops

Beginning Old Time Fiddle Taught by Clelia Stefanini
This 2 hour workshop will concentrate on learning simple fiddle tunes with appropriate bowing patterns. I will teach the tunes slow and by ear, so a recording device is strongly suggested. The emphasis will be on patience until you will walk away knowing an old time fiddle tune. Partecipants must know how to tune and have a basic knowledge of the fiddle.

Advances Old Time Fiddle Taught by Rafe Stefanini
This class is designed for intermediate / advanced fiddle players who want to expand their repertoire and refine their bowing techniques. I will present tunes from such legendary masters as Ed Haley and Emmett Lundy and the learning will be through repetition and aural absorption. Bring a recording device.

Beginning Clawhammer Banjo Taught by Jason Dilg
We'll look at the basic clawhammer techniques that create the building blocks of the instrument's unique sound, tackling repertoire, improving musicianship, how to practice and some of the resources available outside the class.

About the instructor:
Jason is a respected interpreter of Appalachian dance tunes and ballads, and has performed at Clifftop with the Bailers, the High Sierra and Northwest String Summit festivals with the old-time string band High on the Hog, and The Living Room in New York City with the new acoustic band Crescent and Frost, as well as house parties, contras and shows around the Asheville area with the great musicians in Western North Carolina, where he lived for two years in pursuit of the old-time ring. His fiddle, banjo, guitar and voice has been recognized among the elite players of his day. He played banjo in the winning band in the traditional band contest at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifttop W.V. in 2009; he took first in banjo and third in fiddle the Fiddles and Folklife Festival at Warren Wilson College in the spring of 2005; and played guitar behind Freighthopper's fiddler David Bass in the first-place old time band at the Tazewell County Fiddlers Convention in the summer of 2006.

Old-time, Two-Finger Banjo Taught by Chip Arnold
Learn the wonderfully expressive old time, two finger banjo style made famous by such players as Bascom Lunsford and Will Keys. We'll take your abilities as a clawhammer or three finger player and apply them along with new techniques to bring forth your inner two finger picker. Tablature of material covered in the workshop as well as a couple of more advanced tabs will be available.

About the instructor:
Chip is a well known picker in the old time, two finger style once prevalent in the Southern Appalachian mountains. He first learned from local old timers and later from renowned two finger stylist, Will Keys, who became a friend and mentor in the last years of his life, passing on much of his unique and beautiful style in the traditional monkey see, monkey do fashion. Chip loves to play and to bring others into the old time finger picking fold.

Ozark Fiddle Tunes and Guitar Accompaniment for Intermediate Players Taught by Jim and Kim Lansford
This workshop is intended for fiddlers wanting to expand their repertoire and techniques as well as guitarists wanting to improve their accompaniment skills. During this workshop Jim will cover selected fiddle tunes and techniques of several fiddlers from the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks (e.g., Fred Stoneking, Art Galbraith, Skeeter Walden, Bill Bilyeu, and George Reves). Kim will provide specific information and techniques on guitar accompaniment for fiddle tunes in a variety of keys. This is one workshop you won't want to miss.

About the instructor:
Jim and Kim Lansford live on a small farm in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri near Galena, in Stone County. Since 1980 they have performed together at festivals, concerts, workshops and dances across the country. Jim and Kim’s performances feature an abundance of primal and powerful early country duet singing along with elegant, often understated instrumental accompaniment. The Lansfords have also long been devoted to the continual pursuit of expanding their unique repertoire of little-known songs and fiddle tunes gathered both from published and unpublished collections and recordings of traditional music from the Ozarks, Midwest and South.

Learn more about the Jim and Kim Lansford and their music by visiting www.kimandjim.com.