Mandolin for Beginners (Long Weekend)

Learn to play driving rhythms and create sweet melodies on the small-but-mighty mandolin! Explore healthy and approachable techniques to playing melody on a few old-time tunes. Get introduced to a unique, right-hand method for enhancing your mandolin sound. Practice basic chords and strum patterns for backing up both tunes and songs. Even discuss some practical music theory. Most of all, you get to experience the joy of making music!

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Ellie Grace was born into a deep musical tradition and has spent her life touring internationally as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and dancer. Ellie holds an MFA in Dance and has directed schools of folk music and dance in Missouri and North Carolina as well as being on faculty at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and University of North Carolina. She is a devoted teacher and holds an undying commitment to using the performing arts to build community and lift others up. When not on the road, Ellie leads a folk community chorus in Kansas City. At the end of 2019, she released a highly-anticipated solo album of all original songs, On the Side of Love.