Wed 2/21 @ 6:30PM
Each month, the Music Settlement hosts its “Old-Time Jam” at its Ohio City location.
Musicians from advanced beginners to old pros, ages 12 and up, are invited to join in and jam on traditional folk songs that their originators all learned and spread by ear, just as you can at this jam. Suitable instruments violin (fiddle for the evening!), viola, cello, double bass, banjo, guitar, mandolin, autoharp and dulcimer, both hammered and lap.
Some minimum ability on the instrument is expected although you don’t have to be facile by any means — working with experienced musicians will help you grow. They tell you in advance what key each session will be in; February’s is in the key of A. and add “Key of C and modal tunes may be added spontaneously at one of the G or A jams.”
The jam is free, although the nonprofit Music Settlement always welcomes donations.
themusicsettlement.org/all-offerings/old-time-jam
2600 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113