Roland White All Level Mandolin Workshop

Down Home Guitars in Frankfort,IL is honored to host Grammy award-winning mandolin legend Roland White for a day long, all level in-store workshop on Saturday, March 21st 2009. Roland made his name with his group the Kentucky Colonels with brother Clarence White( who would later join The Byrds), and was a member of  Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass, Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, the progressive bluegrass band Country Gazette, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, which won two Grammies, and currently leads The Roland White Band, which earned a 2003 Grammy nomination for their CD "Jelly on my Tofu".
Mandolin master Roland White will teach a 4-hour workshop on topics such as right and left-hand technique, chord shapes and how they work together, playing breaks to a songs, double stops, back-up, mandolin set-up, tremolo, acquiring speed, ensemble playing, and more, depending on the students'  preferences and needs.   Roland will spend some time with each student individually and provide chord diagrams and tablature handouts.  The workshop should be equally beneficial to players of all skill levels. 
Roland is widely praised as a teacher, having taught mandolin and guitar privately and in workshops for many years.  He loves to teach beginners and has boundless enthusiasm for the music, which rubs off those around him.  He has published a critically and popularly acclaimed mandolin methods, Roland Whites Approach to Bluegrass Mandolin and Roland White's Mandolin Christmas and is in demand at music camps and seminars. 
The workshop costs $60 and space is limited. You must pay in full to reserve a spot. You can pay by credit card over the phone at (815)469-6321 or in person at Down Home Guitars. Sign up now!

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