Our annual Holiday Party is coming up on FIRST FRIDAY, December 6, 2024, and Red Wing Academy is back!!! We absolutely love supporting and partnering with Red Wing Academy each year, and it is such a pleasure to host a small group of these talented students each year for our holiday celebrations.
Red Wing Academy is a music camp hosted by Eric Brubaker of The Steel Wheels. It’s a four-day intensive camp held annually at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. This camp is designed to nurture young musicians, providing them with the skills, talents, and community to go beyond classical training into the world of improvisational performance and group play. The culmination of the academy is a performance on-stage with the Steel Wheels at Red Wing Roots Music Festival. It’s open to non-beginner violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, mandolin and banjo students ages 5 – 19. Students receive individual and group instruction from highly trained music teachers and are coached by members of The Steel Wheels throughout the week. It’s an incredible opportunity to play with and learn from music experts.
Gaines Group Architects sponsors the academy each year to support the next generation of musicians in our community. A focus on musical instruction not only teaches kids how to play, but studies have shown that it accelerates brain development in young children, particularly in the areas of the brain that are responsible for processing sound, language development, speech perception, and reading skills.
A special Thank You to Meg with Tiller Strings for making the partnership possible!
