The Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival takes place every autumn at the Kennedy Creek Resort  in Suches, GA. Participants are invited to reserve cabins, yurts, or campsites, and food is available at the resort restaurant. Guest artists lead jams, teach workshops, and present concerts, but the main event is always jamming with friends. Admission is free thanks to our sponsors, the American Musicological Society and the Jon Bekoff Project.

Schedule:
1:00pm: Workshop: Alabama Tune Time with The Yellow Dandies
The Yellow Dandies will teach two or three Alabama tunes. All instruments are welcome.

2:30pm: Workshop: Beyond the Basics with The Yellow Dandies (fiddle, guitar, banjo, bass)
Participants will break out into small groups to work on advanced techniques. Guitar players will learn how and when to access connecting chords, how to create bass lines, and how to take more advanced rhythmic approaches to their backup playing. Banjo players will work on chord shapes, chord structures, and rhythm for syncopated tunes. Fiddle players will work on improving 4th-finger performance and seconding. Bass players will learn how to create bass lines and when to ride the root.

4:00pm: Workshop: Stringband Ensemble with The Yellow Dandies
Participants will combine the techniques and approaches they learned in the individual classes to create small groups able to perform “on-the-spot” arrangements.

5:30pm: Concert: The Yellow Dandies