Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
Northwoods Blues Licks is a series of instructional guitar videos featuring regional guitar players.
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Sam Zimmerman: visual artist, teacher; Liz Engelman: dramaturg, founder and director of Tofte Lake Center; Jessica Peterson: essayist, playwright, co-founder of Yellow Tree Theater; Erin Cain: University of Minnesota-Duluth Student Liaison
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Jennifer Jubenville: Manager, the Bookstore at Fitger's; Lisa Buckman: General Manager, Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My aim is to help Northwoods guitar players better understand each others' approach to the blues and to document and share the blues guitar vernacular of the Northwoods. Measurable outcomes include: 1) produce a series of 10 educational videos with accompanying resources (notation and tablature, play-along tracks) featuring regional guitar players, 2) publish the video series and ancillary resources on a freely and publicly available online platform. I will know that Northwoods Blues Licks is a success when I am able to share compelling, quality, instructional content with my viewers. I will know that the work is a success when I start to see Northwoods guitar players viewing, liking, and commenting on these videos. I look forward to hearing back from folks about the blues lick they learned from their favorite local guitar player, or how they use this lick in their solos all the time now, or how great all these videos look. I plan to encourage viewers to post videos of themselves playing the licks in the comments; I can't wait to hear my first viewer video! This is when I'll really know that Northwoods Blues Licks successfully documents and shares the blues guitar vernacular of the Northwoods.