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Monday, 16 June 2014

Successful Music in the school project in Barneveld (NL)

BROKELAND BULLETS TEACHES BLUEGRASS MUSIC TO YOUNG STUDENTS

The Norwegian band Brokeland Bullets (brokelandbullets.com) took a group of young students under their wings to introduce them to the joy of playing bluegrass music. In a joint project between the Music School in Barneveld (The Netherlands) and the Stichting EWOB Voorthuizen (organizer of the EWOB Festival Voorthuizen, ewob.eu) Brokeland Bullets spent two hours of their time to teach bluegrass music at the local MusicSchool, housed in the local theatre in Barneveld. This workshop was financially supported by the D'Addario Company from the U.S.A.

28 students, along with family and friends, came to the workshop that was held on the Wednesday evening before the EWOB Voorthuizen festival. After having played for half an hour, performing a number of bluegrass songs, the six band members spread out over the main foyer of the theatre and explained all about the instruments (violin, mandolin, bass, guitar, dobro and banjo) to the students.

After this presentation another hour was spent rehearsing the song "Man of Constant Sorrow". In the previous month the students had already rehearsed this song during their individual lessons. Now they were taught the finer details by the experts. Afterwards the band and all the