2011 Folk Boot Camp at Cantos
The 6th Annual Folk Boot Camp at Cantos is a three day workshop series running in conjunction with the Calgary Folk Music Festival that runs July 20 to July 22, 2011 at the Cantos Music Foundation (134 11 Ave SE). www.cantos.ca
Folk Boot Camp at Cantos offers a unique chance to learn from the festival’s favourite guitar heroes and songsmiths. Held at Calgary’s best kept musical secret, the Cantos Music Foundation, festival artists teach a dozen of the willing for three hours, three days in a row, among the Foundation’s collections of rare and curious keyboards, organs, Theremins, and instruments played by the Rolling Stones.
Folk Boot Camp at Cantos is geared towards musicians that have a basic grasp of their craft and want to supplement their own studies with guidance from some of the world’s finest musicians.
How to register
Registration: $150 per workshop
Register online or phone 403-233-0904
Special Discount:
Register in two workshops - 1 morning, 1 afternoon - for $250.
Call the folk festival at 403-233-0904 to register and receive the discount)
Resgistration includes:
Three-day workshop, breakfast or lunch depending on registered workshop, free admission to our Boot Camp lecture series
15% discount on four-day pass for the Calgary Folk Music Festival (call the Folk Festival office to purchase at 403-233-0904 and identify yourself as a Boot Camp registrant)
Special room rate at 5 Calgary Suites (call the Folk Festival office to purchase at 403-233-0904 and identify yourself as a Boot Camp registrant)
The Workshops
Guitar with Matt Andersen - Registration is full
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Learn from self-taught bluesman Matt Andersen and become more than just a “strummer”. Rather than a lot of talk on scales, modes and theory, Matt will focus on the importance of rhythm, dynamics, tonal variation, melody and bass coordination, and the beautiful marriage of guitar and vocals.
Guitar with Mighty Popo
Wed July 20 - Friday July 22
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$150 Register online or 403-233-0904
Get grounding in the basics of Eastern and Central African guitar styles along with blues, dub, basic rumba and soukous, reggae skank and chuck and appropriate use of the wah-wah and delay, from an artist whose rooted music encompasses all these genres.
Songwriting with Joel Plaskett - Registration is full
Wed July 20 - Friday July 22
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Learn, play and collaborate with a songwriter loved for his ability to pen infectiously catchy pop songs. Expect startling musical discoveries, lessons in co-writing, and the inspiration behind some of Joel’s greatest songs.
Vocals with Chic Gamine
Wed July 20 - Friday July 22
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$150 Register online or 403-233-0904
Gain knowledge about how to sing with others in a group or collective - and how to blend with and complement other voices in a powerful, passionate and creative way from this talented Winnipeg vocal collective.
Songwriting with David Francey
Wed July 20 - Friday July 22
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$150 Register online or 403-233-0904
Get insight into the writing approach that has worked for Canadian folk poet David Francey and discover (or rediscover) a sense of enjoyment and fulfillment in your writing process.
Songwriting with Catherine MacLellan
Wed July 20 - Friday July 22
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$150 Register online or 403-233-0904
Realize the connection between poetry and music isn’t just a lyric. It’s a phrase, a well-placed breath and an evocation of simple stories, experience and emotion.
Boot Camp Lecture Series
Guitar as an Accessory to the Human Condition: A Conversation with Vernon Reid
Wednesday July 20 7:00 pm
Cantos Music Foundation
$20 (free to Boot Camp registrants)
Buy online or 403-233-0904
While most of the world knows him as the leader of the pioneering multi-platinum rock band Living Colour, Vernon Reid’s career reaches even further into the depths of eclecticism with heavy metal and punk, R&B and avant-garde jazz. Peppering all he does with his hallmark anarchic, lightning-fast guitar solos, Vernon Reid’s rampant eclecticism has lead him to collaborate with a wide range of artists from Carlos Santana to the Roots, Spearhead to B.B. King and back again.
His ongoing journey with the guitar has brought about a unique perspective that has him treating the instrument as a symbol, an object, and most importantly, a fascinating point of human contact.
Vernon Reid is a great example of unlikely things coming to pass. He’ll talk about how the guitar has changed him, allowing the journey rather than the destination to rule.
Hosted by Bob Keelaghan
