Artist Support
Many artists who have played at Frontier Home are teaching, have merch to sell, or are offering personalized concerts in Aaron Jonah Lewis’ case. We reached out and found out who is offering what. Many of these folks are often too busy with touring to offer lessons, so this is a unique time to learn from some great musicians and help keep this music alive. You can also donate to the Log On Festival Fund here and 100% of your support will go to these and other artists who have played or given workshops at Frontier Home.
McKain Lakey
McKain Lakey is available to teach a bunch of stuff you might wanna learn! A Berklee-trained vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and audio engineer, she’s got your bases covered.
Offering video lessons in: Voice; Guitar/Banjo/Fiddle (catering to beginning/intermediate students, or folks interested in accompanying voice); Songwriting; Audio Engineering Concepts (catering to women/non-binary folks, or people who have felt intimidated or excluded from learning this stuff in school or on the job)
Sliding scale rates $40-60/hour (or $20-30 for a half hour). Willing to work out trades with people whose income has been impacted by COVID-19. contactmac@mckainlakey.com
Aaron Jonah Lewis
Classical banjo master and amazing fiddler. He also does personalized streaming concerts in oldtime, bluegrass, blues, early jazz, and country blues. aaronjonahlewis@gmail.com
Charmaine Slaven and Charlie Beck
Kaley and I have been taking fiddle lessons from these two and they’re wonderful. They also teach banjo, guitar, and flatfoot dance. charmaineslaven@gmail.com
Evie Ladin
Evie Ladin and Keith Terry are doing an ongoing Sunday Salon until this ends. They are also offering a clawhammer banjo repertoire drop in class beginning May 5. They are actually doing so many things that you should check out her FB page for the most updated list of events: https://www.facebook.com/pg/EvieLadin/events/
The Horsenecks
Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern have done such a wonderful thing by starting Quarantine Happy Hour, a daily livestream of traditional artists from around the world. Gabrielle does a children’s music class every day, and they teach fiddle and banjo.
Allison deGroot
Agh one of my favorite banjo players and teachers. So good! Everyone could benefit from an online lesson from her, which she is now offering: allisondegrootbanjo@gmail.com Her wonderful record with Tatiana Hargreaves is available here.
Tatiana Hargreaves
Simply one of the best fiddlers out there, and now available for online lessons. Flexible $60 for one hour, $180 for four hours. Open to trades. tatianahargreaves@gmail.com
Jefferson Hamer
Jefferson teaches all around the world; I’ve taken a few classes with him and they are always fantastic. Wonderful song repertoire and a seasoned guitar teacher. Get a lesson on the books: hamer.jefferson@gmail.com
Jordan Tice
Such an incredible guitarist and person. He is now teaching online: jticeyall@gmail.com. Hawktail is also selling a very beautiful letterpress-printed poster with four of their tunes. I ordered one, and you can too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSk3zpt6tKU