The Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music festival was very successful as musicians from across the nation gathered at the Grove Civic Center and Snider’s Camp for a great weekend of sharing, learning, and playing. The instructors/coaches, are all stellar instrumentalists bringing their talent and devotion to help students have a deeper appreciation of music to the Fiddle Camp each year. They come back each year eager to see that their students from the previous year have progressed to a much higher level of playing. These instructors who have their own multi-talented students year round go home from the Fiddle Camp with new teaching ideas and inspiration to do a better job of encouraging their students to try different styles of music. The theme for the festival weekend is to encourage the participants to stretch their talents and to have fun as they work to reach new goals.
2014 Fiddle Camp participants
Fiddle Camp students from L to R
Jennifer Hendris, Grove, OK
Brady Helms, Grove, OK
Nate Smith, Prague, OK
Jana Jae, founder of Grand Lake Festivals, Inc. and host of the Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Fest has encouraged and mentored many talented groups and individuals throughout her career in music. She is involved with all the participants, encouraging them to interact with other musicians, become comfortable playing on stage with groups before an audience, enjoy learning to play contest tunes and many different styles of music.
Everyone enjoyed the entertainment by Bluegrass Friends, Jana Jae Family and Friends and Ozark Wildfire. The talented instructors and camp participants also wowed the spectators with a wide variety of music. In addition, the Amateur Fiddle Contest is always a popular event on Saturday night at Snider’s Camp, giving all participants a chance to play on stage in a contest setting. This is an important and fun occasion for the audience as well as the participants.
The Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Fest is the final festival of the 2014 Grand Lake Festivals season, declaring the three festivals in this series a big success. Grand Lake Festivals, Inc., a non-profit organization, is dedicated to bringing good family entertainment to the Grand Lake area with the assistance of a huge group of dedicated volunteers, the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, OK Film & Music, the City of Grove and local and area sponsors including Air Power Systems, Tulsa OK, Solow Ranch, Grand Savings Bank, Rapid Remedy Urgent Care, Prairie Breese, LTD, Grand River Abstract & Title Company, Arvest Bank, 1st Bank & Trust, Grand Pointe Convenience & Grand Motel, Prudential Realty, Cathy Schaefer, Realtor, Barbara Armijo/The Holmes Organisation, Best Western TimberRidge Inn, Bank of Grove, Harps, Bank of Oklahoma, Drake’s Restaurant, Grand Rental Station, 1st National Bank, Catfish John’s, Worley-Luginbuel, Universal Images, Lungren Chevrolet, Cherokee Queen Motel, Jana Jae’s Gallery Southwest and Snider’s Camp. A special thanks to area media helping promote the events including Grand Lake Association, Grove Area Chamber of Commerce, Grove Sun, KGVE, KTUL, KVOO, KODE, Grove Area Merchants Association, Okla Travelnet, FM99.5, Video Revolution, Robert Livesay Photography, Cantrell Marketing Group, CPS Solutions and Muns Music.
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