Webnash Productions: Traditional Acoustic Music Workshops In The Berkshires

Starting in fall of 2005, Webnash Productions is collaborating with National Guitar Workshops to bring you more workshops. We plan to expand to 12 workshops per year by the spring of 07. We will be bringing you some new teachers, such as John Jorgenson and Peppino D’Augustino. The friendly staff at NGW will be taking reservations and handling the advertising and administration. The registration and schedule links will take you to their site. Webnash Productions (Mike) will still be at the workshops, which will continue to be held at Shaker Meadows.

Webnash Productions is the vision of its founder;
Michael Erkkinen. It is a business that:

hosts acoustic guitar workshops
hosts concerts
sponsors educational public performances that focus on the history, lore, and musical styles of rural American depression era musicians.

The unusual name of "Webnash" was the result of its founder's first good guitars being a Webber, and a National, and needing to invent a screen name for the, then new, invention known as the internet. The workshops are three day intensives that occur at least once per month in the Berkshire Hills, led by a world famous staff of teacher/performers. Webnash hosts one concert at a local venue during every workshop, to expose the general public to the fine music of its staff. Webnash also offers educationally-oriented performances to the general public for the purpose of exposing a wide audience to the origins and varieties of traditional American acoustic music. These performances are multi-media and audience interactive, including slide shows, lecture, song composition, and performers playing songs and demonstrating musical styles. The performances happen at museums, libraries, cultural and community centers, coffee houses, art centers, festivals, and private homes. Through scholarships, grants, and an attitude of inclusion, Webnash attempts to make its programs available to all who have a strong interest.