I want to attend a folk music camp

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So I am more or less into 'new weird america' type folk music, but especially old British Isles folk songs, especially the ones about like dead people, and also old time Anthology-style US folk music. Basically anything scary. And I want to get my parents to send me to folk music camp, and learn how to play old style English folk songs and like American folk and maybe bluegrass or something, though that seems harder. I don't want to learn how to play gay shit or like have to go hiking or anything, or sing alongs, and also don't want there to be too many old people. I don't play that shit. Does anyone have any recomendations for folk music camps? I am ok at guitar but not that good, but I can play a rough version of a Bert Jansch song (Reynardine). It's awesome.
thx, daniel

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Saturday, 19 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You could move to CHicago for the summer and take classes at the Old Town School of Folk Music. It's where Roger McGuinn learned how to play!

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i would have loved to go to a camp like that if i had known of their existence back when i was a child

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Daniel move to the Pioneer Valley in Western,MA. Shop at Joshua's record store, Mystery Train in Amherst. Party at Sunburn's Wire photoshoot hideaway in Belchertown. A jolt 2 hours east is Twisted Village. It's folk camp all day every day..

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i recommend forgetting about it and waiting for it to all go away.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was going to be an amateur!st thread.

― youn, Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

pack up your money, pull up your tent mcguinn, youre going to folk music camp.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

well I didn't really mean to stress the whole NWA (haha nice acronymn)thing, I more just want to learn the old ballads and folk songs. BTW, Mystery Train is a great store, I got Paul Flaherty albums for 5-7 dollars there as well as Odessa by the Beegees and lots of other things including the record "FOLK SONGS OF THE SUPERNATURAL" by Tony Roberts and John Berrand, which is probably a large part of the reason that I want to go to folk music camp. I went to Jazz Camp in Amherst in the summer before I think 10th grade, and it was there I decided that I didn't want to be a jazz musician cause I kept taking the bus into town and buying free jazz records instead of practicing (and cause all the other pianists were better than me).

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Monday, 21 June 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a man in Glover, VT you may want to meet. His name is Burt Porter. He was in the movies Ethan Frome and Where The Rivers Flow North. Plays all the standards of a hundred years ago from many a land. Strictly Old Folk Music. Former teacher, a nice gent, and you could probably stay at or near his place. Right next door to the Bread & Puppet Theatre. Truly folksy. Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] .

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 21 June 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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