Here’s our jam-packed 2022 Old Songs Festival Schedule of over 100 workshops, sessions, and performances! Time to study up and plan your festival. Some hard choices ahead for you, we know. Sorry about that! The program is always subject to change. We’ll keep updating it as we tweak the schedule, a little here or there.
Full Festival Schedule Grid PDF
(Friday Evening through Sunday)
Friday Daytime Classes & Sessions
3–4:30 pm Please arrive 15 minutes early
Area 2: Great Groove Band & Chorus with the Great Groove Band Staff (till 5 pm)
Area 3: Interactive Melody and Rhythm with Great Gambian Griots (till 4 pm)
Area 5: The Lineage of Song with Matthew Byrne
Area 6: Joy of Singing with Claudia Schmidt
Area 7: Songwriting with John McCutcheon
Area 8: Kentucky Women with Sam Gleaves & Deborah Payne
Area 9: Mandolin with Jim Lloyd & Addie Levy
4–5:30 pm
Area 4: Community Barn Dance with George Wilson, Selma Kaplan, and caller Paul Rosenberg
Grandstand: West African Drum Circle with John Dickson & Bill Fitchner
4:30–6 pm
Area 8: Open Mic with Kate Blain
Sales Building: Banjo Lesson with Pat Attanasio, from the Guitar Center