Folky Fish Jam Camp
Thursday May 29, 2025
Join us for an exciting day of hands-on workshops taught by festival artists!
In partnership with The Adam Yount – John Hotze Memorial Music Education Awards
- Music Camp is Thursday May 29, 2025 at Maramec Spring Park
- All Skill levels welcome!
- String Instrument Workshops!
- Instruments Available Upon Request
- Festival Performance!
- Ages 10 – 18 Welcome
- Scholarships Available!
Folky Fish Jam Camp is a full day of music instruction designed for students aged 10-18 and is taught by festival performers. Students can register for guitar, fiddle/violin, viola, cello, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, upright bass, or singing. Students will perform onstage to kick off the festival on Friday!
Friday May 30, 2025 – Student Performance at Folky Fish Festival
Jam Camp is full. We are no longer taking applications.
2025 Folky Fish Fest Sponsors
Ellen Coplin
Ellen Coplin crawled over to the piano as a toddler and hasn’t been able to shake the music habit since! She grew up in Northwest Ohio playing piano and cello and graduated from Taylor University with a bachelors in music composition. She is an accomplished and experienced teacher across many instruments including piano, cello, guitar, bass and ukulele. She plays cello and keyboard with newgrass band Debutants and Irish band Soltre.
Sean Hoffman
Sean Hoffman has been teaching and playing fiddle for many years. He grew up playing bluegrass with his family in Indiana and studied Irish music with New York-based fiddler Brian Conway. He plays with multiple bands including Debutants, Bobcat Opossum, and Soltre. He is fascinated by the relationship between Irish music and old-time dance music, those not so distant cousins separated by an ocean and re-imagined in the hills and hollers of the New World.
Beth Watts Nelson
Experience the joy of harmony singing! Beth will lead the group in traditional solfege, rounds, and partner songs to create three and four part harmony the easy way. Strengthen your voice and refine your listening skills in this fun workshop open to all humans. If you can breathe, you can sing. And when you sing in harmony with others the results are AWESOME!
Lukas Simpson
Lukas Simpson is a singer-songwriter from St. Louis, MO who performs and teaches guitar, mandolin, ukulele and banjo for all ages. He has toured across the United States and Ireland and his original songs have been used in Nissan car commercials, stage adaptations of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and performed by an orchestra.
Janie and Allan workshops and kid’s camp
Award winning fiddler Janie Rothfield and husband Scottish singer and guitarist Allan Carr have been playing and recording their unique blend of Celtic and Appalachian music for over 40 years!
Jon Swain
Jon Swain: Fundamentals of Bluegrass Guitar – fundamentals in bluegrass rhythm guitar workshop.
