Old School Bluegrass Intensive at Everdale Farm
Fri, Sep 26
|Everdale Farm
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2025, 3:00 p.m. EDT – Sep 28, 2025, 4:00 p.m. EDT
Everdale Farm, 5812 6th Line, Hillsburgh, ON N0B 1Z0, Canada
About the event
At this fall's Bluegrass Intensive, we are going to be camping on the beautiful grounds at Everdale Farm in Erin, Ontario (1hr+ drive west of Downtown Toronto)
Old School camps are for adults who want to widen their playing skillset, learn some new tunes, and have fun learning while growing their music community. This weekend camp intensive will have all the standard elements that make an Old School camp so special: instrument classes (instruction in bass, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, guitar, fiddle and mandolin) interactive workshops facilitated by top-tier pickers, late night jams with new friends, band labs, camper performances, exclusive concerts by your world-class instructors, and unlimited inspiration. Old School is also where you’ll meet your new best music friends, find some regional jam circles, and cultivate future bandmates.
Instructors
Jason Mercer - Bluegrass Banjo and Bass
Kyle Kirkpatrick - Clawhammer Banjo and Guitar
Saskia Tomkins - Fiddle
Joey Wright - Mandolin WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Two nights' of camping, group instrument lessons, interactive workshops, jams, student performance opportunities, exclusive concerts, dances and more!
All meals, snacks, coffee and tea
Choice of instrument class: Bluegrass Banjo, Clawhammer Banjo, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, or Fiddle
Facilities and use of our beautiful campgrounds, provided by the incredible folks at Everdale
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EACH TICKET?
A Day Camper pass includes all meals and camp programming, it just means that you won't be camping on-site and that you plan on arranging your own, separate accommodations.
There's also a Tent Camping ticket, which means you'll be camping on-site at the beautiful Everdale Farm property with us!
And finally, a Companion registration is for folks who are accompanying campers who are taking an instrument class (ie. any of the other options) but will not be in an instrument class themselves. This fee still includes all snacks and meals, concerts, jams, and workshops.
If you have any questions at all or have trouble registering with this new ticketing system and website, please email Jaymie at her new address jaymie@oldschoolcamps.ca
Here are some photos from the Old School Bluegrass Intensive at Hotel Wolfe Island in November, 2024.
