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Athens Cabin Camp- April 2024!

Y’all, Cabin Camp is headin’ back down south to Athens, GA!

This is a 3-day camp happening April 25-27, 2024!

See the camp registration page and register yourself by CLICKING HERE!

Check out a highlight vid from the camp in '23:

Want info/suggestions for preparation? Check out the 2024 camp song list.

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Great news!

Link to Katie’s demo of some melodic and single string banjo backup licks are in this video I recorded on Saturday April 27, 2024. Recorded by Al Swint.
Katie’s demo of melodic and single string backu0p banjo licks

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Absolutely great time again. I have SO much to work on and made SO many good friends.

I cant wait to do it again next year. Hint Hint Hint Ben. :slight_smile:

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I’m gonna try! I’m so glad you came, thank you. I wish we had more time to hang out and talk, will aim for that next year. You did an awesome job on your interview–thank you for doing that.

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@al.swint Thanks so much for sharing that! Knowing a bunch of licks is great, but only if you know how to apply them. The example applications in this video are great! It’s gonna help me a bunch!

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Man that’s great stuff! Katy is a walking dictionary of licks. It blows me away that she can also play them while singing.

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It’s the stuff she plays in between the licks that I want to learn. She’s amazing

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Thanks so much for posting this! Katy gave us some gems and kernels of knowledge, a springboard to better playing. The Athens camp this year was so inspiring to me… Herb

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What song did the two campers sing with the Purple Hulls during the Saturday night concert? It was the one with the bass singer and it was something like “meet Jesus the man”?

@BZPowell, Mike Harrison (@mharrison43) was singing lead, and I think he suggested it. I was the bass singer, but Mike just asked me to follow his lead. I didn’t know the song, but here’s a link to a video of it if anyone else knows the name: https://youtu.be/-n0Q0LsdCjE?si=wJnJe5TOyyt0OTMa
And thanks Mike for including me—it was fun.

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Thank you @JKL ! It was great having that bass vocal. The song is What Kind of Man. Here’s how it’s done:

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