FEATURING:
NED LUBERECKI
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON
JACK HATFIELD
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – MORNING ONLY | $65.00 | |
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – AFTERNOON ONLY | $65.00 | |
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – FULL DAY | $100.00 |
The 50th Annual Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) Bluegrass Music Awards and 41st National Convention and Band Championship will be held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN on January 24-26, 2025.
The SPBGMA Banjo Workshop 2025 will be held on Sunday, January 26 2025, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (CST).
SCHEDULE
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE – 9:00 to 10:30 – Jack Hatfield
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – 10:30 to Noon – Kristin Scott Benson
LUNCH – Noon to 1:00 (includes informal jam for all)
BANJO SETUP – 1:00 to 2:00 – Jack Hatfield
ADVANCED – 2:00 to 3:30 – Ned Luberecki
FACULTY JAM – 3:30 to 4:00 – Ned Luberecki, Kristin Scott Benson and Jack Hatfield
Questions? Email [email protected]
Ned Luberecki
Banjoist for the Becky Buller Band and host of More Banjo Sunday and Derailed on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Bluegrass Junction, Ned Luberecki was named Banjo Player of the Year for 2018 and Broadcaster of the Year for 2023 by the IBMA, and inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame in 2024. Ned is the author of the Complete Banjo Method series for Alfred Music and has numerous lesson videos available at TrueFire.com. Living in Nashville, TN, he is an in-demand performer and session musician having appeared on stage and recordings with Becky Buller, Chris Jones, Jim Lauderdale, Ray Stevens, Nedski & Mojo and many others. Ned is a popular instructor at music camps and workshops across the US, Canada and Europe including Camp Bluegrass, RockyGrass Academy, Kaufman Acoustic Kamp, Sore Fingers (UK) and Bluegrass Camp Germany. His website is nedski.com
Kristin Scott Benson
Kristin Scott Benson is the six-time International Bluegrass Music Association’s Banjo Player of the Year, recipient of the 2018 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, and 2024 inductee into the American Banjo Hall of Fame. Since 2008, she has been a member of The Grascals, performing over 200 times on the Grand Ole Opry. Her latest recording effort with Mountain Home Records entitled “Benson”, is a joint venture with husband, Wayne. Kristin is also a world-renowned teacher. In addition to private lessons, she has taught at Bela Fleck’s esteemed Blue Ridge Banjo Camp since its inception, as well as many other bluegrass and banjo camps all over the country.
Jack Hatfield
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP DIRECTOR
JACK HATFIELD has been picking banjo since he was seventeen years old. Jack’s first venture in publishing was when he started writing as a columnist for Banjo Newsletter magazine in 1976. He wrote the Scruggs Corner column for five years, analyzing the style of the father of bluegrass banjo. The sixty tablatures and analytical comments he wrote while authoring this column still today constitute the most comprehensive and accurate collection of Earl Scruggs transcriptions anywhere. Jack then wrote the Beginner’s Corner column for seven years, and for twelve years authored a column called Concepts and Systems which attempted to de-mystify music theory, present alternative banjo techniques, discuss difficult and seldom-taught topics such as arranging and composition, and present other “big-picture” concepts relating to music applied to the five-string banjo.
Jack has written several highly acclaimed banjo instruction books, published by his own company Hatfield Music and for Mel Bay Publications, the largest publisher of stringed instrument instruction books in the world.
Jack was on the faculty of very first banjo camp, the Tennessee Banjo Institute in 1988. Since then he has been Bluegrass Director of all three of Banjo Newsletter’s Maryland Banjo Academys and the Nashville Academy of Traditional Music. He is the director of the banjo workshop at the SPBGMA (Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America). Just a few of the past instructors include Kristin Scott Benson, Alison Brown, Noam Pikelny, Gary Davis, Richard Bailey, James McKinney, Mark Pruitt, Tom Adams, Jason Burleson, Butch Robins, Larry McNeely, Ned Luberecki, Bela Fleck, JD Crowe, Sonny Osborne, Sammy Shelor, Greg Cahill, Pete Wernick and Bill Evans. Jack has gleaned from all these great artists insights and teaching methods he applies to his own classes.
In 2006, Jack established his own Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy near Gatlinburg, TN, which was held in conjunction with Five-String Fest in 2014. In 2015, Jack embarked on a big renovation project and moved his camps into the Hatfield Music Barn adjacent to his shop overlooking Pigeon Forge.