Friday Dinner - Spaghetti Dinner with Side Salad 

Saturday Continental Breakfast 

Saturday Lunch - Soup and Salad with Grilled Cheese 

Saturday Dinner - Grilled Chicken/Tofu, Kimchi Collard Greens, Bread, Rice and Peas 

Sunday Continental Breakfast 

Sunday Brunch - Bacon, Eggs, Fruit, Pancakes, Breakfast Potatoes 

FRIDAY MAY 29

4pm - load in for campers 

THEME OF WEEKEND - STORY SONGS

4 - 6pm Dinner meet ‘n greet- Get to know your new songwriting tribe. Jonas & Sue talk about flow of weekend and to let what happens this weekend expand your process.

INSPIRATION

6 - 6:45pm Digging Deep With Dr. D.  Our guest archaeologist will tell us about this land, it’s history & prehistory, because his science is about among many things; telling a story, looking to the past to understand the future, & patiently uncovering information. Stories can be told the same way, uncovering the strata of layers through time. 

BUILDING COMMUNITY

6:45 -7:45pm Starting Songs with Art & Archaeology w/Deb & Sue

Start with Deb as she inspires you to make your own original art piece, then Sue will give you some writing prompts based where your writing, science, and art meet.  

8 - 9:30pm Open Mic Introduction/Icebreaker

We invite you to play the main stage: sign up, tune up,  bring a song to stage as a means of introduction.  But before you start your song, tell us briefly how you wrote it. Let’s get to know each other as writers. (This is not a feedback open mic).

9:30 - 10:30pm Art of the Jam with Jonas Friddle at campfire or Quonset hut - weather depending.

SATURDAY MAY 30

7am - Continental Breakfast

—-SIGN UP BOARDS FOR ONE-ON-ONE SLOTS at barn—-

7:30am - 8:45am (Early Bird Session) Improvisation for Singer Songwriters with Sue.

Free up your lyric, melody, performing options, & writing with simple in-class exercises. Using Sue’s wildly popular 11 point improv checklist, you dive into vocalise, jump writing, and expansive performing in this interactive class. 

9 - 10:15am Invitation to a small Dig Site on the White Oak property. Uncover the past history, prehistory, & geography w/Scott,  Description of dig to come

Deb will also be there as your artistic guide explaining how you can implement what you see, touch & learn in your book. Bring your notebooks, and phones for pics.

10:30 - 11:45am Idea Book Making with Deb 

Deb will guide folks through the process of building their own mini song-zine from a single sheet of paper. Participants can personalize and decorate their “books” with beautiful cover papers and upcycled collage materials that can then inspire written ideas, poems and songs. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own special photos or other flat, glue-able imagery to include. Let the dig, layers, strata, and imagery inspire you. 

11:45 – 12:45pm Lunch

COMMIT TO SONG 

12:45 – 1:30pm Facing the Blank Page, Quick panel on starting Songs

1:30 - 3:00pm Free Write Time and One on One Sessions

3 - 4:15pm Harmony Through the Backdoor 

Known for their soaring, original harmonies, Sons offer this unique harmony workshop. They start out by sharing a song, breaking  it down, and teaching the class their tips & tricks. Sons demystify the harmony building process and invite students to try the  ideas on for size. Some principles discussed in-class will be song-building, breaking tradition, common-notes, and arranging. Q & A to follow.

4:15 – 5:30pm Story Song Structures with Jonas - class description to come.

5:30 - 5:45pm Local Vineyard Lady start us off with Cocktail Hour

5:45 -6:30pm PART 1 - Feedback Open Mic using a feedback form to take notes for yourself and to share with attendees. 

6:30 - 7:30pm Dinner time

8 - 9pm  PART 2 -  Feedback Open Mic with feedback forms

10 - 11pm Jam and hang at the campfire

SUNDAY MAY 31

7am  Continental Breakfast

7:30 - 8:30am  Dig site Part 2 & Stone Tool Workshop w/Dr. Demel

8:30 - 10am Banjo for Guitar Players with Jonas

8:30 - 10am Everything is Music w/Sue

10 - 11am Bruce Class - How To Finish A Song

11:30 – 1pm Lunch & Small Group Shares (each one of the teachers takes a small group and the attendees share songs and ideas in the round, from the weekend with one another over lunch).

1:30 – 2:45pm Staff Concert - gather in the barn and enjoy a concert from Jonas & Sons.