Violin with Sumaia J.

I have experience teaching all levels and I love doing everything from teaching tunes, to exploring more modern techniques and setting of playing the fiddle, such as: • What happens if your friends have a cool rock band and you want to jam with them but you play the violin and it feels awkward? • What happens if you go play with them and your friend looks at you to take a solo in the middle of a tune? (AH!) • What if you are playing in a traditional folk band and you want to figure out what else you can do besides play the melody? . . . et cetera! Not to worry, that's why I'm here, and I'm more than happy to help with all these problems and more! Playing the fiddle/violin can fill so many roles now a days and people LOVE hearing it! You'll be your town's new rock star! :) I grew up in Santa Cruz, CA playing the fiddle and going to music camps and studying classical music intensely as well as traditional fiddle music from many countries and regions. I studied in Boston at the Berklee College of Music, as well as lived in Nashville, and now hold a degree in Performance with a minor in American Roots Music. Throughout my many years of playing, I've been immersed in many different settings: I have experience playing amplified, being dropped into a jazz band and told to solo next to a saxophone player, being asked to come play with a local folk-rock cover band, playing at Bluegrass Festivals across North America, fronting a band, and being hired as a fiddle player to back up a singer-songwriter.