Brothers Eugene Present
The Sweetgrass Music Camp




September 18 -22, 2024
JbarL Ranch.com Crazy D Lodge

TBA National Flatpicking Champion and renowned guitarist, singer, songwriter, storyteller, producer and educator.

Tyler Grant’s adventurous career has spanned the better part of thirty years, and has taken him from sideman to bandleader; and young hotshot to mentor in the Bluegrass, Americana and Jam Band scenes. His sixth solo release, Tryin’ To Have A Good Time, captures the image of a life-long wanderer staking out musical roots which extend to a canopy of song.

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 Chris Coole’s 30-year career as a full-time musician into three eras – ten years as a Toronto street and subway busker; ten years playing bluegrass residencies around Toronto’s bar scene; and ten years touring internationally; both solo and with the likes of The Lonesome Ace Stringband, The David Francey Band, and The Foggy Hogtown Boys. 

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Lauren Rioux is enthusiastically sought out for her teaching expertise and leads workshops across the globe. Her online string resource site,  JamWithLauren.com provides students the world over with access to her innovative curriculum, inspiring and motivating blog, but most importantly- her inimitable teaching style. Lauren helps musicians (mostly string players) unlock their inner voice and achieve their potential. Lauren believes that everyone has the ability to create a sound they love, experience the joy that their sound produces, and express what they’re unable to articulate with words. 

As a performer, Lauren has toured the United States, Europe and the UK with Darol Anger and his Republic of Strings, as a duo with Brittany Haas, with Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly, and with her husband Sten Havumaki.

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Sharon Gilchrist has long made her home in the American traditional music scene.  Whether she's playing mandolin or upright bass, singing a traditional ballad or performing original material, you hear and artist steeped in traditional Appalachian music relaying those sounds through her own diversified musical lens.  Sharon has performed with the Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman, Darol Anger, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands and Uncle Earl.  She is recognized internationally as a respected teacher of mandolin and offers four courses in mandolin instruction online.

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