!! SAMW Week 1 is CANCELED!! Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, WUMB has made the difficult decision to cancel our July 12-18, 2020 Summer Acoustic Music Week. Sponsored by WUMB Radio in Boston, Massachusetts, SAMW offers an exuberant week of intensive instruction, jamming, workshops, concerts and musical collaboration with instructors attuned to the needs…
!! SAMW Week 2 is CANCELED!! Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, WUMB has made the difficult decision to cancel our August 16-22, 2020 Summer Acoustic Music Week. Sponsored by WUMB Radio in Boston, Massachusetts, SAMW offers an exuberant week of intensive instruction, jamming, workshops, concerts and musical collaboration with instructors attuned to the needs…
In light of the novel coronavirus pandemic WUMB has decided to cancel both the July and August weeks of SAMW for the summer of 2020. The University of Massachusetts Boston has also cancelled all summer in-person gatherings, and will move exclusively to online teaching for the summer. This was a difficult decision, but a necessary one….
So much in our music community has changed, and is changing — it’s hard to keep track of it all! So we’re going to try to help — here you’ll find listings and descriptions of the music, services and other events that SAMW folks are making and participating in online. This post will be updated…
Thanks for visiting the WUMB Acoustic Music Camps Website. This will serve as a good introduction to our camps for you. If you have never attended a summer music camp, please stop for a minute and check us out! We offer general folk music camps, which means that each camp provides a number of different styles of folk music instruction as opposed to focusing on one style or technique.
The courses we offer range from the traditional to the contemporary, taught by instructors who are experienced musicians and love to teach. Whether you play guitar, fiddle, mandolin or dulcimer or perhaps want to learn more about songwriting and vocal techniques, on our camp pages you can find more information about each camp including instructor bios, class descriptions and schedules.
One of the wonderful features of our Acoustic Music Camps is the music that the instructors and students all bring to share. This is the core of our program. Much of this happens during jam sessions, but there are also concerts, open mikes and workshops that expose the wonderful wealth of music found at all of our camps.
The sites are inspirational. Our Summer Music Acoustic Week (SAMW) is situated on nearly 200 acres of woods and green spaces. With a mile of beach front on Lake Winnipesaukee, SAMW offers a beautiful view of the lake and the Ossipee Mountains. Our Fall and Winter Weekend campus is nestled within the glorious pine woods of Groton, MA.
Please enjoy your visit to this Website; check out the instructors and course offerings and view the galleries. If you have any questions, contact us at
samw@umb.edu
