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Special Events Calendar- Past Events for Year 2007

Here's a list of past special events, most held in our store at 1100 North Washington, Lansing MI. (Here's a map to our store).
Also see our current events calendar.

past calendars ... 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Novice Guitar Session I with Bob McCloy
Friday , January 05, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Another two part Novice guitar workshop by Elderly Instruments instructor Bob McCloy


Bluegrass Guitar II
Friday , January 12, 2007
10:30 pm - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Sign-up for both sessions of this workshop and sav $10 (only $70 for both!)


An Improvisation Workshop with JOEL MABUS
Saturday , January 13, 2007
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Mabus is everything a modern string player ought to be : versatile, innovative, tasty, and funny...." - The Twin Cities Reader


Blues Ukulele Workshop with Lil' Rev
Tuesday , January 16, 2007
05:00 pm - 6:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger


Blues Ukulele Workshop with Lil' Rev
Tuesday , January 16, 2007
05:00 pm - 6:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger


Blues Ukulele Workshop with Lil' Rev
Tuesday , January 16, 2007
05:00 pm - 6:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger


Blues Ukulele Workshop with Lil' Rev
Tuesday , January 16, 2007
05:00 pm - 6:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger


Blues Ukulele Workshop with Lil' Rev
Tuesday , January 16, 2007
05:00 pm - 6:30 pm
workshop (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Listen to this! Lil' Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger


Novice Mandolin I with Bob McCloy
Friday , January 19, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30
workshop (free$40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

A two-part mandolin course for those looking to start off on the right foot!


A Novice Acoustic Guitar Workshop with Bob McCloy
Saturday , January 20, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Register for this workshop and Bob's "Novice II" workshop a month later, and get a $10 discount!


A Novice Bluegrass Banjo Workshop with KEITH BILLIK
Saturday , January 20, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"...he makes each person feel special about their experience in learning...the banjo." - Bob Ashbaugh


A "Beatles for Solo Guitar" Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Workshop with Bob McCloy
Saturday , January 27, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Lennon & McCartney, George Harrison, "Yesterday," "I Feel Fine," "Here Comes the Sun," "When I'm 64"....


A Novice "Meet the Ukulele" Workshop with CHRIS HAMILTON (and a Second Session, also)
Saturday , February 03, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

The inventor of the "Legolele," Chris Hamilton builds playable ukes for fun.


A (Long-Awaited) Dobro Workshop with IBMA "Dobro Player of the Year"* ROB ICKES
Saturday , February 10, 2007
02:00 pm - 5:00 pm
workshop ($80.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

*"SEVEN-time" Winner of IBMA's "Dobro Player of the Year" Award, that is!


Bob McCloy's Follow-up Novice Acoustic Guitar Workshop--and a $10 discount
Saturday , February 17, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Register for this workshop and Bob's January 20 "Novice I" Workshop, and get a $10 discount!


A Bluegrass (Flatpicking) Guitar Workshop [actually two!] with BOB McCLOY
Saturday , February 17, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Sign up for BOTH of Bob's Bluegrass Guitar workshops and get a special deal.


A FREE In-Store Concert with Singer/Songwriter JEN SYGIT
Thursday , February 22, 2007
05:30 pm
in-store performance (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"...mournful blues tunes, haunting folk ballads or rousing bluegrass numbers..." - Earthwork Music


A FREE In-Store Concert with Singer/Songwriter DAISY MAY wsg Seth Bernard
Saturday , February 24, 2007
11:00 am
in-store performance (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"She's enough folk to satisfy most and enough country to satisfy the rest." - Recoil Magazine


A Second Session of Chris Hamilton's Novice Ukulele Workshop
Saturday , March 03, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Register for this and Chris's February 3 Novice I Workshop and save $10: 2 for $60.


A Follow-Up Bluegrass (Flatpicking) Guitar Workshop with BOB McCLOY
Saturday , March 10, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

For a special deal, also see Bob's February 17 Bluegrass 1 Guitar Workshop.


A Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Workshop w/ Bob McCloy
Saturday , March 10, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Learn how to play full solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements in blues, jazz/swing and bossa nova styles!


A "Right- and Left-Hand Technique Workshop" with CINDY KALLET
Saturday , March 17, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"Kallet, quite simply, casts a spell...." - Sing Out! Magazine


A Beginners' Tin Whistle Workshop with GREY LARSEN
Saturday , March 17, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"...a gifted multi-instrumentalist who consistently demonstrates his melodic finesse" - The Washington Post


Homespun Pickin' Night @ Elderly Instruments
Thursday , March 29, 2007
06:00 pm - 8:00 pm
workshop (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Come and Pick along with some our favorite Homespun Instructional Products!


So You Want To Play The Mandolin? A Novice Workshop with ALAN EPSTEIN
Saturday , April 07, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

A special $10-off "two-fer" deal (buy both workshops for just $60!) and a mandolin for use in the workshop if you need it.


A New England Fiddle Workshop with LISSA SCHNECKENBURGER
Saturday , April 21, 2007
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"...a hot hand with the reels and jigs, mixing deftly ornamented traditional tunes with clever perky originals" - Dirty Linen


VG Stratocaster Clinic with Greg Koch
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
05:00 pm
demonstration (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

FREE! Demo of the new Fender VG Stratocaster with guitar wizard Greg Koch


An Anglo Concertina Workshop with English Traditional Master BRIAN PETERS
Saturday , April 28, 2007
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
workshop ($65)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"It is players like Brian who are pushing Anglo playing forward...." - Alan Day, Anglo International


A FREE in-store concert by Laura Bates and Brandon Foote
Saturday , April 28, 2007
12:00 pm
workshop (in-store performance- Free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Celebrating the release of their first recording for Earthwork Music "Jubilee!"


DIGI-TRUCK-TOUR
Tuesday , May 01, 2007
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
workshop (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Call in sick because the Digitech Digi-Truck stops here on may 1st!


Secrets of Swing Masterclass with Ray Kamalay
Saturday , May 05, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Upgrade your knoweldge of repertoire of Classic Acoustic Swing with renowned teacher and performer Ray Kamalay!


More Mandolin Basics! A follow up of Alan Epstein's NOVICE MANDOLIN Workshop
Saturday , May 12, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

A second session of Alan's Novice Mandolin Workshop--get both for $60.


Clogging and Fiddling Tandem workshops with Matter and Ghost
Saturday , May 19, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Two workshops (one for beginning cloggers, one for fiddler's and instrumentalists warming up for festival season) With Neil Woodward and Shelia Graziano of Matter and Ghost


An In-Store Concert and Meet and Greet with Johnny Hiland
Thursday , August 30, 2007
07:00 pm
in-store performance (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

"I think Johnny Hiland is the most versatile guitar player I've ever heard. From Bill Monroe to Eddie Van Halen, he can play it all." - RICKY SKAGGS


Secrets of Swing Masterclass with Ray Kamalay
Saturday , September 22, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Upgrade your knoweldge of repertoire of Classic Acoustic Swing with renowned teacher and performer Ray Kamalay!


Laurence Juber - Up Close with LJ (Evening Workshop and FREE lunch-time in-store concert)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
05:00 pm - 7:00 pm
workshop ($50)
Location: Elderly Instruments

LJ is also giving a free lunch-time in-store concert at 12:30 pm, so call in sick and make a day of it!


Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop with Chris Proctor
Saturday , September 29, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($50)
Location: Elderly Instruments

A fingerstyle lesson with reknowned performer Chris Proctor!


Guitar Accompaniment Workshop with Larry Unger
Thursday , October 18, 2007
06:00 pm - 8:00 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

This workshop will conclude by giving students a chance to try their new skills acommpanying the Gypsy Violin Students!


Gypsy Violin Workshop with Eden MacAdam-Somer
Thursday , October 18, 2007
06:00 pm - 8:00 pm
workshop ($35.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Learn Gypsy and Eastern European Violin with an acclaimed instructor!


A FREE In-Store Concert with Detour
Saturday , October 20, 2007
11:00 am - 11:45
in-store performance (free)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Celebrating the release of their first CD, this hot new Michigan bluegrass band is sure to please!


A Guitarist's Toolkit Workshop with Brooks Williams
Saturday , October 27, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

A workshop on arranging, writing, and performing with Brooks Williams!


Conquering Stage Fright with Doug Berch
Saturday , November 03, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($40.00)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Doug Berch will use 30 years of performing experience to help you overcome stage fright.


Private Lessons with Bob Carlin
Friday , November 09, 2007
01:00 pm - 600
workshop ($75)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Take a Private lesson with this acclaimed clawhammer banjo player!


Clawhammer Banjo Workshop with Bob Carlin- Morning Session
Saturday , November 10, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30
workshop ($50)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Improve Your Clawhammer Banjo Skills at any level with master banjoist Bob Carlin!


Clawhammer Banjo Workshop with Bob Carlin- Afternoon Session
Saturday , November 10, 2007
02:00 pm - 4:00
workshop ($50)
Location: Elderly Instruments

***Sign-up Early - there are only 15 spots for each session, and they are going fast!


Holiday Guitar with Bob McCloy
Saturday , December 01, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Learn some fun new arrangements of holiday songs to share with your family and friends!


Beatles for Solo Guitar with Bob McCloy
Saturday , December 01, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Bob will teach solo guitar arrangements of more Beatles classics (different tunes than last year!).


Bluegrass Guitar I with Bob McCloy
Saturday , December 08, 2007
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Another two-part Bluegrass Guitar workshop with Elderly Instruments Instructor Bob McCloy (sign-up for both for $70)


Concepts of Finger Picking (arranging for Solo Guitar) I
Saturday , December 08, 2007
01:00 pm - 3:00
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Another two part course in fingerstyle guitar playing with Elderly Instructor Bob McCloy


Intro to Swing Guitar Rhythm Workshop with Brian Delaney
Saturday , December 15, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
workshop ($40)
Location: Elderly Instruments

Learn the basics of Swing Rhythm from the ground up!



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