Here are more folks you'll be meeting at the camp.  Some will teach a seminar or a jam, some are at your disposal throughout the week.  Some just need to be disposed of.

Sam Broyles

Sam has been playing roots music since rocks were new.  He started playing bluegrass back in the 1970s in Texas and has played in bands in both Texas and Colorado.  In the 1990s, he and his wife Pat Japenga starting playing Irish music.  He plays mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, and has recently developed a mild psychosis which allows him to enjoy the sound of the plectrum banjo.

For the last two years, Sam has performed the invaluable job of booking the featured acts for the Black Rose Acoustic Society, and has brought in several other performers for special concerts.

He and Pat are two people you can count on to get it done.  Sam's official title at the camp is Director of Shiny-Object-Related Thought Displacement Mitigation. When Charlie sees something shiny and becomes distracted, Sam detects it and steps in to deal with the matter at hand.

Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall is a full-time guitar, mandolin and bass teacher.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education with emphasis in French horn, and has taught high school band as well as classes in beginning guitar, fingerpicking, bluegrass rhythm guitar, music theory and jamming.

Charlie was a founder and driving force of the Black Rose Acoustic Society in Colorado Springs, a favorite destination for roots musicians and roots music fans.  He performed for ten years with the popular folk/bluegrass band Black Rose, was a finalist in the 2000 National Fingerpicking Championship and was nominated Bluegrass Guitarist of the Year in 1996 by the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. 

Charlie is director of the Colorado Roots Music Camp, and the significant other of Marianne McTigue.

Pat's musical bio reads just about like that of her husband Sam Broyles, except without the Texas part.

Today, she and Sam will travel farther to play in an Irish session than most people are willing to travel for a liver transplant.  She plays mandolin, guitar, plectrum banjo, and Irish flute and will happily whack you upside the head if you don't get your Irish ornaments right. 

Like Sam, Pat will be helping make things run smoothly at the camp.  Especially those Irish ornaments.

Marianne plays and teaches violin and fiddling in Colorado Springs, and is a registered instructor with the Suzuki Association of the Americas.  Undaunted by two degrees and a former life in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, Marianne has two kids, William and Anna. 

Marianne is an excellent teacher and an expert at getting folks started both on violin and fiddle styles.  She teaches our Intro to Fiddle class.

She's the significant other of Charlie Hall.