Janie’s Jumpstart Weekend Old Time Camp In Oxford PA
at the home of Pete Peterson and Kellie Allen
September 26-28, 2025 (5pm Friday-3pm Sunday)
Weekend long Old Time Camp for Intermediate-Advanced level musicians
Classes and Jamming with Janie Rothfield (Fiddle/Banjo/Guitar)
Paul Brown (Fiddle, Banjo)
Terri McMurray (Clawhammer Banjo, Banjo Uke)
Kellie Allen (Guitar)
With Pete Peterson (Old Time Songs and Finger Style Banjo) and Allan Carr (Guitar)
Registration includes all classes, jams, staff concert, coffee/tea/snacks and fun all weekend long!
NEW MEAL FORMAT
No Saturday or Sunday breakfast-Just Morning Coffee & Tea
Lunch will be provided
Friday and Saturday Dinners are POTLUCK-Bring something to share-food item sign up will be available. Bring your own beverages and snacks too!
ACCOMMODATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED
CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Upon registering, Janie will be in touch with you to arrange an assessment of your playing to make sure you are in the right class for your ability.
Email Janie at info@janierothfield.com for more info
SPACE IS LIMITED-SIGN UP NOW FOR FIDDLE, CLAWHAMMER BANJO OR GUITAR CLASS
There will also be a variety of additional drop in instrumental classes including banjo uke, mandolin and bass as well as singing and old time songs.
Spend the weekend learning from and playing with world class old time musicians and great teachers and “JUMPSTART” your playing! Janie’s Jumpstart features small classes, great teachers, staff house concert and tons of jamming with the teachers all in a comfortable house setting!
Our motto is “we are not here to teach you all the tunes, but how to play them better”!
JANIE’S JUMPSTART CANCELLATION POLICY
REGISTRATION FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MEDICAL OR FAMILY EMERGENCIES ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
Old Time Fiddle/Clawhammer Banjo with Janie Rothfield
Janie will focus on the all important rhythm and melodic techniques to help you add musicality, expression, rhythm, drive and fun to your playing. Throughout the class you will learn not only fabulous tunes in a variety of tempo’s, rhythms, and melody but also how to make those tunes your “own”, how to pick up a tune on the fly, chords and how to play back up or accompaniment for a song. These classes will help you find and develop your own musical old time voice.
Janie will teach tunes from a variety of traditional sources and regions, listening to the old recordings and get a feel for where the music came from. She will also teach you a few of her own original tunes!
Janie has spent her life learning from and playing with older generation and contemporary traditional musicians from many places around the US and world! Her style and approach to playing and teaching old time music is a reflection of those experiences- She has taught at premier music camps and music festivals such as Festival of American Fiddle Tunes (WA), Earful of Fiddle (MI), Midwest Banjo Camp (IND), Banjo Camp and Mandolin Camp North (MA), Great Lakes Music Camps (MI), Old Songs Festival (NY), Philadelphia Folk Festival (PA), Hoppin’ John (NC) and international at FOATMAD (UK), Old Time in the Alps (SWITZ), Belgium Old Time Music Festival (BELG) and dozens of workshops and her own Janie’s Jumpstart Weekends! She as two new recordings out (The Two of Us with Allan Carr and The JAES (her new quartet with Allan Carr, Ellen Coplin and Sean Hoffman)-available on Bandcamp.
Paul Brown-Fiddle/Finger-style Banjo
Paul will teach a variety of old time tunes with a focus on sharing and teaching you how to play in the style of and learn some of his favorite tunes he played with his mentors such as Tommy Jarrell and Benton Flippen!
Paul Brown can’t get enough of down home old time and bluegrass music. And he loves to share it. He started singing the songs his mom knew from central Virginia when he was a little kid. He picked up the banjo at age ten and the fiddle and guitar as a young man. He steeped himself in the music of his elders the best way possible: by playing with them at home and on the road for decades. You’ll love his authentic, solid sound as a singer, guitarist and prize-winning banjo picker and fiddler.
Paul is a retired NPR radio journalist, long a familiar voice on NPR’s world newscasts, who started his radio career at the renowned old-time and bluegrass station WPAQ in Mount Airy, NC. He’s a veteran of the Toast String Stretchers, the Surry County Boys with Robert Sykes, and the Smokey Valley Boys with Benton Flippen. He studied banjo intensively with Round Peak legend Tommy Jarrell, and he’s recorded and produced numerous iconic old-time music albums of artists including Art Stamper, Rayna Gellert, Ralph Blizard, and Benton Flippen.
Terri McMurray-Clawhammer Banjo/Banjo Uke
Terri’s clawhammer class will focus on her authentic old time style and tunes she learned from “older generation” players such as Tommy Jarrell, Luther Davis, Norm Edmonds and Kyle Creed!
About Terri McMurray: Terri McMurray has great chops on 5-string banjo, banjo uke, and guitar. She looked and listened hard during her years around some of the great master traditional musicians in North Carolina and southern Virginia, and it shows in her playing. Terri played for more than 20 years with the Toast String Stretchers, the most active band in the well-known metropolis of Toast, NC, between Round Peak and Mount Airy. She was a founding member of the Old Hollow String Band with Kirk Sutphin and Riley Baugus.
Pete Peterson: Old Time Finger Style Banjo
Pete Peterson is a legendary (and prize winning) three-finger banjo player, guitarist and traditional singer. His extensive knowledge, skill and experience playing traditional old-time music is unrivaled, making him in high demand as a teacher and contest judge as well! Pete has taught banjo, guitar, and singing at Mars Hill Blue Ridge Old-time Week, Augusta Heritage Camps, and others including Gainsborough, UK, Dorrigo (AUS) and Wirrina (AUS). He has been a judge at Clifftop, the Charlie Poole Festival, the Florida Fiddle Contest and other places. He got his first guitar and banjo over fifty years ago and now plays one of Charlie Poole's banjos. Pete's signature and distinctive sound on the banjo echoes Charlie Poole, who played three-finger banjo, backup style. Pete also plays guitar with a thumb pick, following in the style of old-time guitarists such as Roy Harvey, Maybelle Carter and Riley Puckett. He was a regular contributor of articles and reviews to the Old-Time Herald.
Pete will take you through the fundamentals of old time finger style banjo, how to apply it to a tune or accompanying a song.
