A two-hour intensive workshop with
The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Trio
Friday June 13, noon to 2 p.m.
Fiddle: Megan Lynch Chowning
Guitar and clawhammer: Ella Korth
Bass and mandolin: Sharon Gilchrist
Level: Intermediate and advanced
Price: $50 ($40 for festival pass holders)
Location: St Christopher’s & St. Aidan’s Hall
70 W Cowichan Ave Lake Cowichan, BC

Workshop space limited

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Want to be in a band with Sharon Gilchrist, Megan Lynch Chowning and Ella Korth?

Purchase a weekend festival pass and get a discount to this special workshop where you’ll learn some John Hartford tunes and join this fabulous trio on-stage at the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival. Open to fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, bass and mandolin. Level: Intermediate and up. Not attending the festival? You can buy a ticket for the workshop only.

For a taste of what you might learn, watch seven-time U.S. National Fiddle Champion Megan Lynch Chowning teach the A and B parts to Living Up Stairs, one of the previously unrecorded Hartford tunes recently released on The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Vol. 2. Chowning and Gilchrist co-produced and played on the all-female project along with Hartford devotee Baiman and a Who’s Who of some the best women in bluegrass and old-time music.

Vol. 2 is a follow-up to the 2022 Grammy nominated Vol. 1 of the same title. Both recordings bring to life a trove of Hartford-written tunes discovered in notebooks after his death in 2001.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from three of the best. (Guys welcome, too).