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Roar Like a Violin Monster
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Develop Your "Thing", Whether or Not It's "Jazz Violin"
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The #1 thing you can do to become a better musician
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structuring creative practice to avoid overwhelm
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Amplifying your acoustic violin with acoustic violin pickups
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CSW Faculty List
Finally! We have confirmed the faculty list for this year’s Creative Strings Workshop and Festival.
Here are the 11 artists/musicians who will be teaching, playing and enlightening us in our workshop come June 28 to July 4 in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeremy Kittel – scottish, celtic, classical, jazz violinist and violist
Alex Hargreaves – fiddle styles and jazz
Mike Block - cellist in fiddle styles and rock/singer songwriter
Marcelo Vieira – brazilian and jazz cellist and singer/composer
Paul Brown – modern jazz and fusion guitarist/composer
Christian Howes – jazz, rock and classical violinist/composer
Stephanie Nilles – singer songwriter, pianist
Mike Barnett – fiddle styles and jazz
Billy Contreras - everything
Nathaniel Smith – wunderkind cellist in folks styles and jazz
Robert Anderson – from String Project L.A. for jazz and rock
And a variety of rhythm section players to lend support to the team.
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Watch out for the blog feature of each faculty only here at www.ChristianHowes.com
