Harmonica Collective, April 7-9 in Indianapolis

Now in its fourth year, the Harmonica Collective is a three-day teaching event with enriched content for intermediate and advanced harmonica players. While all staff members are expert blues harmonica players, this event goes beyng blues into rock, jazz, and traditional music.

Co-produced by Winslow Yerxa and Jason Ricci, it offers daily classes from four expert guides, performance coaching with a full band, one-on-one sessions, and evening jamming. In addition to the intermediate/advanced classes, the Red Schoolhouse program offers beginner instruction and remedial coaching from a dedicated staff.

Sponsoring vendors will also be present, including Blue Moon Harmonicas (combs and built harmonicas), and effects and amp maker Lone Wolf Blues. Seydel and Rockin' Ron are sponsors, and we're working on a few more. Merchandise from sponsors will be both offered for sale and raffled and/or auctioned at the end of the event.

Expert Guides this year include Winslow, Jason, half-valved swing master PT Gazell, and up-and-coming multi-harmonicist Ross Garren, who is the overblow columnist here on bluesharmonica.com. Each Expert Guide will teach one topic per days to small groups that rotate among all four guides, allowing for individual attention.

The beginner teaching staff includes Special Guest Star Buzz Krants, Dan Ridgeway, and Jarred Goldweber.

LD Miller will teach a special class on Saturday. LD is a young player with John Popper-like chops who was featured on American's Got Talent a few years back.

All three days will feature Jason's New Orleans band, The Bad Kind, in performance coaching sessions on Thursday and Friday, and backing LD Miller during his teaching segment.

Thursday night features a blowoff at a lcoal club features the Expert Guides and several hot local players. Other evenings will have both eleective classes and a jam circle.

For more information or to register, please visit harmonicacollective.com