Nashville Jam Camp
Thursday through Sunday, December 4-7, 2025
Registration opens August 1, 2025 at 9am Central
Fiddles, banjos, mandolins, guitars, Dobros, and basses welcome!
This camp is for intermediate and advanced players who are looking to improve their skills playing with other people.
This is your chance to get better at all the things you love about bluegrass jamming with the
guidance of some of the greatest bluegrass musicians in the known universe.
This camp is not open to the general public, so please only register if you've received an invitation from us for this year's camp.
Megan Lynch Chowning ~ Sharon Gilchrist ~ Kimber Ludiker ~ Maddie Dalton ~ Avril Smith ~ Celia Woodsmith ~ Brenna MacMillan
*Instructors include Megan Lynch Chowning, Sharon Gilchrist, Kimber Ludiker, Maddie Dalton, Avril Smith, and Celia Woodsmith. Not to mention special guest banjo instructor Brenna MacMillan!
*Dates for Nashville Jam Camp are Thursday through Sunday, December 4-7, 2025
*This camp will focus on bluegrass-style jamming and will draw on traditional bluegrass songs and tunes.
*Registration will be first come, first picked, and numbers will be updated in real time on the home page and registration page.
*The price for on-site lodging, tuition, and all meals is $1150. The price for traveling to and fro each day (we call this being a "day camper" which includes tuition, breakfast, lunch, and snack) is $900. We also offer dinner add-on options for day campers. Read the FAQs to learn more about the specifics.
*Register early - with only 16 spots time is of the essence... All of the Nashville Acoustic Camps sell out quickly. You don't want to miss this!
This is unlike any camp you've ever encountered...
In the hills just above Nashville, TN there is a house set back in the woods where people go in the late fall to learn how to jam and play bluegrass music from some of the greatest players and instructors in the known universe.
Only 16 campers are allowed to attend so each class is small and every camper comes away feeling like he or she had a couple of days of private lessons. And yet, friendships are made that last a lifetime. It's pretty magical. Teachers are chosen because they are able to make special connections with their students. Meals are handmade and generally pretty southern and always delicious. You will stay on-site or travel from your home each day and learn from the masters.
This camp will be a little different than most of our other Nashville Acoustic Camps because we are bringing several instruments together to learn to play music as an ensemble. Jam classes will be grouped together by experience levels with an even mix of instruments and led by an instructor. There will also be workshops where we will choose groups randomly (with a more uneven mix of instruments) and play songs together with guidance from the instructors, simulating a real life jam situation. We'll also be doing a lot of singing. Lead singing, harmony singing, we'll work on it all. On Sunday of camp you'll have the opportunity to record your jam group along with any of the instructors with a real Nashville recording engineer. We plan to offer bass instruction for everyone at camp, (we'll provide a few basses for everyone to share) since we don't expect to get many, if any, bass players to sign up for camp. But we'd like to make bass players out of everyone who does come. We are so excited about this format - bringing all the instruments and voices together to share a Nashville Acoustic Camp experience!
Nashville is only a stone's throw away so there are always field trips into town to see a great concert or visit a traditional music hotspot.
Pay Here! The PayPal button will appear here on August 1st, 2025, at 9am Central. Campers will be taken on a first come, first served basis based on how the deposits come into PayPal. Please give us about an hour to confirm your registration. If you pay a deposit but do not make it into camp, your deposit will be immediately refunded and you will be placed on the waiting list in the order your deposit was received.
