Students learn to keep Appalachian music alive [View all]
Cross posted from Appalachia Group.
Greenville Online
Students learn to keep Appalachian music alive
Charles Sowell, Special to The Greenville News
August 18, 2014
It's an amazing thing to see a young girl pick up an instrument that she's only had for three days and play a complex bluegrass song on it.
That's what happens from time to time with the kids who join the Young Appalachian Musicians (YAM) program. "From the start, Ella was on fire," says Susan Ware-Snow, the volunteer instructor who has taught 10-year-old Ella Hennessee for the past couple of years.
"I teach classes in Easley and Greenville," says Ware-Snow. "Students commit to attend one class a week," taught at a local church.
"Some really catch on," she says, "others don't and drop out after the first six-week session. There is the option to go for another six week session and quite a few of our students do just that."....
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