Preserving and Promoting the Music and Cultural Heritage of
Authentic First Generational Bluegrass
Music – the universal language of mankind.
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Music – the universal language of mankind.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]Come join us on Tuesday nights, 7:00 pm Central Standard Time, as we are led on a mini-tune-up session by one of our world class instructors.
This LIVE broadcast will be on FACEBOOK: MONROE MANDOLIN CAMP page.
Get your instruments tuned up and ready to go. We’ll have a series of building block sessions to help you on your musical journey into the world of Bill Monroe’s music. Special guest artists will also be invited. Each week we will announce what instrument and instructor will be leading, and what specifics will be worked on. Make sure to “LIKE” this facebook page to receive notifications about each weekly event! If time allots, questions will be fielded as well.
It is always with a sense of joy and excitement when November rolls around. We have just completed a successful camp just over a month prior and we have had a little breathing room to decompress, unpack all the boxes full of fun camp gear. In the background, the finely laid groundwork for the ‘next’ camp has been reviewed and updated as needed, and we are getting ready to make the big unveil for the next camp. And November rolls around amidst all of this activity, with a wonderful challenge opportunity created by Facebook.
#Giving Tuesdays. On Facebook, MonManCamp, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, gets to create a public ‘campaign’ to shine the spotlight on our organization, what we do within the community and exponentially the world, and to invite our ‘facebook’ friends and supporters to contribute financially to our fundraiser. While Facebook ‘matches’ a very small portion of donations, which I believe their match is met within the first 8 seconds of when their challenge opens, it really is about people’s generosity and willingness to ‘gift’ their money to support our cause, and to generously enable someone without the financial means to attend and experience MonManCamp.
We have been bowled over by the generosity by those whom we have never met, and by folks who have experienced the JOY of camp from a first person basis. 2017, 2018, and 2019, through #Giving Tuesday on FB, MonManCamp has had $9,600 of donations gifted! Amazing!
As we move full-speed towards Christmas and the close of 2019, we share our gratitude and thanks to everyone who has been a part of MonManCamp, to the participants, our sponsors, our partners, and to the memory of Bill Monroe and the music he and the Blue Grass Boys co-created together. Happy Holidays everyone. We look forward to seeing you at the 2020 MMC or down the road soon!
Cheers-
Heidi Herzog
April 4- 5, 2020 (Sat/Sun)
Station Inn, 402 12th Avenue South, Nashville, TN
Mike Compton (Nashville Bluegrass Band, John Hartford Stringband, Compton & Newberry, Elvis Costello & The Sugar Canes, Soggy Bottom Boys)
Jesse Brock (Gibson Brothers, Fast Track, Lynn Morris Band, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper)
Lauren Price (The Price Sisters)
Casey Campbell (Bryan Sutton Band, Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, Jim Lauderdale, David Grier Band)
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Download Registration Form now: Mini Mon Reg Form, Station Inn April 2020
How to register: Mail in registration form along with a check or money order to: Monroe Mandolin Camp – Mini-Mon-Camp, PO Box 2222, Mount Juliet, TN 37121
Questions? Email: monroemandolincamp@gmail.com (Subject: Mini-Mon-Camp)
Brian Christianson, one of Nashville’s top violin luthiers, manages the repair department of the Violin Shop. He is a winner of the Grand Master Fiddler Traditional Championship and performs regularly on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snider. Christianson has performed with the Nashville Bluegrass Band, the Roland White Band, and the Russ Barenberg Trio. We welcome Brian back for his second year of instruction at MonManCamp!
Amazing and well-organized learning experience. Will definitely attend again. Highly recommended.
For me one of the highlights was seeing how welcoming, friendly, and accommodating everyone was to a beginning picker like myself. When I got there Thursday evening, I was blown away by how good everyone was. It was definitely intimidating. I honestly didn’t want to take my mandolin out of its case. Another attendee, while taking a break from jamming, walked over and introduced himself. He encouraged me to just get in there and try because all those amazing pickers were in the same boat at one point in their lives too. I did and it was a blast!
I felt like another thing I took away from this experience was knowing where to go next with learning how to pick. Watching and hearing other pickers in person is so different than watching videos online. I thought that was probably the case going in, but I didn’t realize the extent to which it would hold true. I’m definitely planning on getting out more often to pick with other people.
Lastly, Paul Duff did an amazing job installing a new bridge on my mandolin. The difference in its playability and sound is remarkable. Can’t thank him and Will Kimble enough for being there and working on all of our instruments.
This camp is such a great community. I feel fortunate to have discovered it. Will definitely be attending again. – Geoff Alday, September 9, 2014
MonMan Camp is the best place to learn from and be inspired by some of the very best Monroe Style mandolin pickers out there! Well organized and crammed full of workshops, presentations and jams all set in a beautiful campground forty minutes outside of Nashville, TN. The attendees are enthusiastic mando-heads from all over the world, the food and beer is spectacular, you can have your mandolin worked on by some of the best luthiers in the business (Paul Duff, Will Kimble and Steve Gilchrist were there this year) and come away with enough material and concepts to work on for a lifetime! – Lukas Simpson, September 19, 2015
2015 was the first time that I had attended he camp since the move to Nashville. I’m glad that I made it. The teaching was over the top fantastic and the presentations were terrific, highlighted, for me by the Bluegrass Boys getting together to play and tell Monroe stories. A special thanks too, to the tireless efforts of Heidi for making sure of all or creature comforts and keeping things so well organized. I’m looking forward to renewing acquaintances this year. Onward to September! – Mike Bunting, March 3, 2016
Great expreience!! This will be my 3rd camp,as a beginner I felt welcomed and encouraged, Figured I’m learning what to learn, Getting to the roots of this music with guys who were taught and played with Bill, caint get any closer to the source theese days. Mike and Heidi work tirelessly to put this together for the love of this American art form. Incredible memories,This is on my calendar permanantly!!Yall come!! – John Boyd, August 18, 2016