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Level 2 Bluegrass Camp

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You’ve landed on the 2024 camp page. See the 2026 camp page… we hope you can join us!

August 25, 2024 – August 30, 2024

Directed by Pete Wernick

Silver Bay, NY at the Silver Bay YMCA Conference Center

87 Silver Bay Road, Silver Bay, NY 12874

Silver Bay is a large Y Camp and Conference Center, on Lake George in the Adirondacks.

Tuition: $490

$200 discount for the next 8 bass players who register

$15 off thru March 31. Deposit of $150 holds your spot; 50% refundable for cancellations more than one month in advance.

Reduced Rates for Housing! Thanks to being recently re-classified as “off season”, Silver Bay has lowered most applicable housing/meals prices. See details below.

All rates include 3 daily meals. The first 4 categories are reduced as of mid-July 2024. These will apply to all reservations, including any previously made.

  • Bayview Lake View: $198.50 Single Occupancy / $124.25 Double Occupancy / $77.00 youth / $54.00 child / $20.00 2-5 year old
  • Bayview Non-Lake View: $187.50 Single Occupancy / $118.75 Double Occupancy / $77.00 youth / $54.00 child / $20.00 2-5 year old
  • Inn Private Bath Lake View: $253.50 Single Occupancy / $151.75 Double Occupancy / $90.00 youth / $63.00 child / $20.00 2-5 year old
  • Inn Private Bath Non-Lake View: $237.00 Single Occupancy / $143.50 Double Occupancy / $77.00 youth / $54.00 child / $20.00 2-5 child

The following will remain the same as the rates are lower than rack rates:

  • Inn Shared Bath: $115.00 Single Occupancy / $74.00 Double Occupancy / $50.00 youth / $30.00 Child / $20.00 2-5 year old
  • Hemlock: $100.00 Single Occupancy Adult / $70.00 Double Occupancy Adult
  • Spruce Mountain Lodge: (at least 10 people must book together) – $100.00 per person, per night
  • Hillcrest: (at least 6 people must book together) $100.00 per person, per night

Pete Wernick

All Bluegrass Skills Taught

9am-12:30pm: Daily classes for banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro, bass…AND… Coached small jam groups, intermediate/advanced.

1:50-5pm: coaching on harmony singing (one coach per trio), classes on songwriting, basic music theory, practice “boot camp”, playing under pressure, stagecraft, and more!

Activities every evening: fiddle tune jam, open mics, karaoke, history, jamming, beautiful sunsets!

Organized Bands: $65 Discount for Each Band Member

For band members registering together, to work together as a band throughout the week: $65 off each member’s tuition. Bands will have opportunities to perform and get performance coaching including working with a sound system on stage (band lab), band cohesion, rehearsal guidance, band decision-making, “how to make a band work”.

Band members must first contact Pete as a group, for approval of the group members’ band discount.