Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle
Get ready to play a ton in this repertoire building old-time fiddle class! We will work through a series of tunes with accessible yet syncopated bowing patterns that helped shaped my personal approach to oldtime bowing and groove. We will also work on techniques for improving tone and volume (essentials for leading successfully leading tunes in any jam) and our own comfort and longevity playing an instrument that is ergonomically challenging!
This class will be accessible to a range of intermediate levels, tunes will be taught by ear and may be recorded for future reference.
Sarah Hamilton
Raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, by two professional musicians, Sarah Hamilton was surrounded by oldtime, bluegrass, ragtime and swing music from an early age. She has been playing fiddle since the age of six and started performing shortly with bands including: The Done Gone Stringband, Annie Lou, Pigeonhawk Stringband, Combo Royale, The Swinging Pines, and Happy Trails, Prospector. Throughout her career Sarah’s passion for American music has pulled her around the states to study, observe, and participate in some of the finest Appalachian, Cajun and Swing music the vast country has to offer.
Sarah has been teaching fiddle privately and in group settings for over 15 years. She has experience teaching children and adults privately, and at music camps across Canada including Nimblefingers Workshops and Festival (BC), Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-time (SK), Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival, and Yukon Summer Music Camp.
She is extremely passionate about teaching fiddle, guitar, singing, music theory, improvisation and dance and has spent the past several years as a music educator at Big Cedar Music: Music Education North, a highly successful music program that specializes in therapeutic music programming for Indigenous Youth.