What we’re about
Welcome to the Old Time Music Learning Jam in Brooklyn!
This jam takes place twice a month, on the second and fourth Monday of each month. The cost to participate is $10. This money goes to pay our jam leader for teaching, mentoring and leading. You can pay when you get there, in cash or by Venmo.
Who should attend: If you play the fiddle, clawhammer banjo, guitar (rhythm), bones, washboard or mando, welcome! Upright bass is welcome too, though we tend to have a regular bass player, who can take turns with you. This jam is a learning environment. We start out playing tunes slowly and then we speed up to what might be a challenging pace for some. We learn a few new tunes each session. If you can't keep up yet, don't worry. What matters is that you're there. And if the pace and the tune is challenging, you can play quietly so that the tune can continue to flow and you can still learn.
See this doc for some tunes we play:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HOcWcUbJxSZDjf5syWWX5vWItE_IeMsauxdozLskmCE/edit?usp=sharing
Upcoming events
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Recommended: Off-Broadway Play Porch on Windy Hill
Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street, New York, NY, USHurry before it closes on 10/11. Also, it's not a free event, but the meetup app is not versatile.
#### The off-Broadway The Porch on Windy Hill blends Appalachian, Old Time and Bluegrass songs with a deeply personal, contemporary story of discovery and reconciliation. The show follows Mira, a biracial Korean American classical violinist, and her folk-song-collector boyfriend Beckett as they escape pandemic isolation in Brooklyn and journey to the mountains of western North Carolina. When they unexpectedly reconnect with Mira’s estranged grandfather, Edgar, they uncover a tangled legacy of love, loss, and music—and discover the unforeseen harmony that can arise when generations and genres collide.
See it and spread the word!
Neither me nor the learning jam is hosting this event. It's just a recommendation from me to you!
After the show -- both matinee and evening performances -- they hold a "hootenanny" at the American Whisky Bar (247 W 30th) next door. They would appreciate both oldtime and blugrass players joining them. They are versatile! This starts about 1/2 hour after the show ends.
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Past events
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