John Hermann workshop in St. Louis, MO [Feb 25th]

Anybody in the remote vicinity of St. Louis, MO with an interest in clawhammer banjo should make it over to the Folk-School of St. Louis this Saturday [Feb, 25th] for a workshop with John Hermann.

Here's his info from the Folk School bio page:

"John Herrmann has been traveling the world playing old-time music for over thirty years. Equally adept on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass, and guitar, he is known as the “father of old-time music” in Japan. He has taught numerous times at every leading music camp in the United States, including the Augusta Heritage Festival, Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Swannanoa Gathering, Banjo Camp North, Merlefest, the Wheatland Music Festival, and the Anchorage Folk Festival. He toured extensively in Germany with highly regarded percussive dancer Ira Bernstein, in France, Germany, and Italy with the French band “Ida Red,” and has done several tours through Japan with Meredith McIntosh. He has recorded at least fifty records on labels such as Rounder, County, and Sugar Hill, most notably with Art Stamper and Ralph Blizard. John also played at the National Heritage Award Ceremony, for which Blizard was the recipient, and has performed numerous times at the Smithsonian Folk Festival on the mall in Washington. He recorded “Songs from the Mountain,” with Tim O’Brien and Dirk Powell, a record inspired by the book “Cold Mountain,” and subsequently toured the country with its author and National Book Award Winner, Charles Frazier. He was a member of the “Down From The Mountain” tour, with Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. He won first place at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival with Bigfoot in 2010. He lives in Marshall, North Carolina."

Rhys Jones is also giving a fiddle workshop, Meredith Watson will be doing a workshop on harmony singing, and Meredith McIntosh will be doing a workshop on Old Time guitar.

Here's the event page for more info. Plenty of good ones coming up as well.

Hope to see some of you there!

-Sean