Fiddlers’ campout to offer performances, workshops in Sequim starting Thursday

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, June 9, 2015

SEQUIM — The local chapter of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers will hold its June Campout at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, this Thursday through next Sunday.

The public is invited to stop by, listen to the live music — and even join in the camping, musical jamming and workshops.

Greg and Jere Canote are this year’s featured performers and workshop instructors.

Their background includes many years on public radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and music festivals from Switzerland to Seattle to Port Townsend.

Musicians are encouraged to bring their acoustic guitars, fiddles, upright basses, mandolins, banjos, harmonicas or ukuleles to play.

For information about jam sessions and camping, contact Gayle Powers at wotfa.dist15.clallam.jefferson@gmail.com.

Campers will start arriving at 5 p.m. Thursday; an open jam session will go from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m.

Then comes a ukulele workshop at 4 p.m. Friday; a fiddle and guitar workshop will go from 7:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. that night.

Saturday has another fiddle-guitar workshop at 10 a.m. and a “band tricks/types of jams” workshop at 11 a.m.

The Canote Brothers will step up for a performance with the Old Time Fiddlers at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Workshops cost $15 each, while the jam sessions and performance are free.

More jam sessions are planned for Friday during the day and evening, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, and Sunday wraps the campout with a gospel hour at 10 a.m. and cleanup at 11 a.m.

Dry camping, with no electrical or water hookups, costs $7 per night.