INSTRUCTORS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – MORNING ONLY | $65.00 | |
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – AFTERNOON ONLY | $65.00 | |
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP 2025 – FULL DAY | $120.00 |
The 50th Annual SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Awards and 41th 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). The workshop instructors will be announced soon!
SCHEDULE
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE – 9:00 to 10:30 – Jack Hatfield
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – 10:30 to Noon – TBA
LUNCH – Noon to 1:00 (includes informal jam for all)
BANJO SETUP – 1:00 to 2:00 – TBA and Jack Hatfield
ADVANCED – 2:00 to 3:30 – TBA
FACULTY JAM – 3:30 to 4:00 – TBA and Jack Hatfield
Questions? Email jack@hatfieldmusic.com
Jack Hatfield
SPBGMA BANJO WORKSHOP DIRECTOR
JACK HATFIELD has been picking banjo since he was 17 years old. Jack’s first “big break” 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). Just a few of the past instructors include Kristen Scott-Benson, Alison Brown, Noam Pikelny, Gary Davis, Richard Bailey, James McKinney, Mark Pruitt, Tom Adams, Jason Burleson, Butch Robins 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.