Mark Hanson’s Accent On Music LLC conducts its 13th summer guitar seminar in Portland, Oregon, August 7-10, 2012. It will be held in the conference facilities at the Ramada Inn Portland Airport, near Portland International Airport (PDX).
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can register online or by mail or
fax by printing out our registration
forms (see registration section below). To request registration
materials through the mail or by fax - or for more information
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The Daily Schedule
- Seminar check-in occurs first thing Tuesday morning, August 7
- Classes start that same morning.
- Each morning - Tuesday through Friday - features a full-group class taught by one of the instructors, or some combination of instructors.
- Each afternoon - Tuesday through Friday - students will attend three one-hour classes, one class with each instructor. The afternoon classes feature smaller groups of students, determined by playing ability and experience.
- Evening events include a performance by a local pro, student recitals, and the Public Concert by the instructors.
The Public Concert
A public concert featuring the three instructors takes place in Portland on Friday evening, August 10, 2012. Concert location and tickets will be made available in the Spring, 2012.
The Instructors
Two award-winning guitarists will join Accent On Music founder and Grammy-Award winner Mark Hanson for the Seminar. “A Prairie Home Companion” mainstay Pat Donohue is one, and 2006 national fingerpicking champion Doug Smith is the other. Both are top-notch instructors, as well as great players/composers and all-around nice guys!
Mark Hanson
Along with being a brilliant and sensitive fingerstyle player and arranger, Mark is considered one of the top instructors in the field working today. His more than 30 titles include best-selling Travis Picking and Hawaiian slack key books/CDs, and blues and arranging DVDs. He (along with Donohue and Smith) won a Grammy in 2005 for his contributions to Solid Air Records’ “Henry Mancini Pink Guitar” CD. More recently, his music has played on American Idol and various syndicated TV and radio programs. His most recent release is the transcription book/instructional CD for his jazz standards recording Great American Songbook for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar.
Pat Donohue
Pat is well known as the house guitarist on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” radio program. He is also Keillor’s perfect musical foil: a brilliant writer of songs and satirical lyrics to well-known tunes – “Would you like to play the guitar, and carry money home in a jar.” Pat’s considerable playing ability compelled no less than Chet Atkins to call him “one of the greatest fingerpickers in the world today.” The 1983 national fingerpicking champion, Pat is steeped in folk styles and the blues, and plays swing jazz beautifully. He will share his considerable knowledge of those idioms enthusiastically. He recently has had a Signature Edition Series OM guitar made for him by C.F. Martin and Co.
Doug Smith
Another Grammy-Award winner and national fingerpicking champion, Doug has gained a reputation as a brilliant technician with a unique compositional flair – and a gifted singer as well. Doug has recorded numerous CDs for Solid Air Records in Southern California, and performs all over the world. As a well-trained musician and an experienced instructor, Doug is great fun in the classroom, as he shares his ideas clearly and thoroughly, all the while encouraging players at every level of development. Doug and Mark work regularly as a duo, and have arranged and recorded the duet on each of Solid Air’s compilation CDs: Mancini, Cole Porter, Leiber & Stoller, Elvis, Disney, etc. |
