About This Workshop
Learn how to move your clawhammer banjo playing beyond familiar positions and playing by rote to a more fluid, intuitive way, and the ability to use clawhammer style to play any music. With instruction on movable chord shapes and patterns in G tuning to help you connect the entire banjo neck, and lots of practice time and tips.
Meet the Instructor
Evie Ladin
Evie Ladin’s polyrhythmic clawhammer banjo style, resonant voice, and percussive dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Celtic Connections, Lincoln Center to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Following a decade and three albums with the Stairwell Sisters, Evie has released four CDs that feature her banjo playing and songwriting: Float Downstream, Evie Ladin Band, Jump the Fire, and Caught on a Wire, as well as a traditional banjo and fiddle duet album with some of her favorite fiddlers: Riding the Rooster. She is also a crackerjack percussive dancer and incorporates that rhythmic work into her playing and singing. A popular instructor at many music camps, as well as Berkeley, California’s Freight and Salvage when she is home, Evie tours frequently with her partner Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band.
The Fluid Clawhammer Banjo: G Tuning Workshop Includes:
- Exploration of common tunes and songs in G tuning, and techniques for playing them in different ways, with a goal of moving your playing from rote recitation to lively interaction.
- Dedicated practice time in each session to help you absorb and embody new chord positions, transitions around the banjo neck, melodic embellishments, and more.
- Four 75-minute live Zoom sessions, held weekly on Tuesday evenings, from 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm PST (8:30 pm to 9:45 pm EST), starting September 8, 2025
- High-quality video recordings of each session, posted on Peghead Nation within a week, so you can review lessons and revisit them after the workshop concludes
- Permanent access to all Fluid Clawhammer Banjo materials and videos after the live sessions are over
Sign Up for Live Workshop
Workshop fee of $150, participate live or view recordings on your own schedule.
In this four-session live workshop series, Evie Ladin explores G tuning as a way to move your clawhammer banjo playing beyond familiar positions, patterns, and rote versions of tunes, to a more fluid, intuitive way of playing. She’ll guide you through learning movable chord shapes and finger patterns to give you practical ways to navigate and connect the banjo neck, with lots of practice time and tips. You’ll work on transitioning smoothly between areas of the neck, recognizing useful note relationships and variations, finding any chord you might want, and using just what you need to move quickly for easier flow. You’ll focus on a newfound knowledge of the fretboard to react and play based on what’s going on around you. The goal is to feel more relaxed, confident, and free while playing clawhammer banjo with other musicians. This workshop is ideal for players with a basic foundation in clawhammer banjo who are ready to play with greater confidence, freedom, and musical flexibility.
Fluid Clawhammer Banjo: G Tuning Workshop
Welcome to Fluid Clawhammer Banjo: G Tuning
Learn how to move your clawhammer banjo playing beyond familiar positions and rote playing to a more fluid, intuitive way, and the ability to use clawhammer style to play any music. With instruction on movable chord shapes and patterns in G tuning to help you connect the entire banjo neck, and lots of practice time and tips.
