June 22 - 27, 2025
Join us in Rodney, Michigan at Camp Brethren Heights.
Save the date for Earful 2025!
A black and white heart-shaped linocut print depicting two musicians looking out over farm fields. They are facing away from the viewer. One has long hair and is playing the fiddle, and the other has short hair, a hat, and is playing the banjo. Print by Gray Reynolds.
A close image of an Earful camper wearing tap shoes and cuffed jeans. Their left foot is turned out and a pair of sneakers rest on the floor in the background.
Our mission is the passing on of traditional dancing and fiddling, with related instrumental traditions. We encourage learning to play by ear, knee-to-knee, foot-to-foot, from tradition bearers in a non-competitive setting. The result is the perpetuation of community-based entertainment and creative traditional arts practice.
About Earful
Earful of Fiddle Music & Dance Camp, established in 2009, offers aspiring musicians and percussive dancers the opportunity to learn from experienced musicians and dancers who are passionate about passing it on. Earful of Fiddle provides four days of classes in multiple levels of percussive dance, traditional fiddle, guitar, banjo, cello, singing, and ukulele.
Five evenings of jam sessions and dancing expose participants to the idea of the “community session,” consisting of fiddle tunes accompanied by a host of rhythm instruments and dancing feet.
A detail image of the wooden scroll of an upright bass belonging to an Earful camper with metal geared tuners. The bass is leaning against a picnic table in the camp lodge.
“A well designed, intimate camp. So many return campers could lead to cliques, but I find the Earful gang to embrace all newcomers and welcome them in to all activities with enthusiasm. It's like everyone wants to share the joy of the camp and let others in on ‘our little secret.’ Great stuff.”
- Earful of fiddle camper
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