For the past several years, the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society’s Teagarden Youth Trad Jazz Camp has had to turn away applicants, and so we have expanded our camp program for 2017 to two one-week camps, rather than just one.
The first week will be from July 23rd to July 29th, and the second week will be from July 31st to August 6th. We can now accept 90 campers for each week, and hopefully not have to turn anyone away!
The faculty for week one will consist of:
Trumpet/Cornet: Rusty Stiers and Jeff Kreis
Trombone: Greg Varlotta
Saxophone: Terry Myers
Clarinet: Anita Thomas
Bass/Tuba: Matt Perrine
Guitar/Banjo: Howard Alden
Piano: Jason Wanner and Curtis Brengle
Vocal: Shelley Burns
Week two faculty will consist of:
Trumpet: Rusty Stiers and Bria Skonberg
Trombone: Greg Varlotta
Saxophone: Terry Myers
Clarinet: Anita Thomas
Bass/Tuba: Matt Perrine
Guitar/Banjo: Nahum Zdybel
Piano: Jason Wanner and Curtis Brengle
Vocal: Shelley Burns
The Teagarden Trad Jazz Camps have been operating for the past 31 years, and many of the current crop of young trad jazz players in both New York and New Orleans are graduates of our program. Some have continued to work with us as counselors, and several have found their way onto the faculty.
The camp focuses on improvisation, both individual and collective, in the “Dixieland” or small band swing styles. Campers work
