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

Patty Domeniconi - Director of SAMW

Lorraine Hammond - Music Director

Dick Pleasants - Founder of SAMW