Monthly Archives: November 2010

As the whispering wind blows through the grounds of the Cowan Community Center, you can hear the faint beckoning of mountain music calling you!!!  Although spring hasn’t sprung, visions and dreams of early summer with mountain music, dance, and storytelling is echoing through the mountains, hills, and valleys around us.  Those of you who enjoy family,  backporch pickin’, ol’ timey stories,  and the smell of country cookin’ should be making plans to come to Cowan Creek during the last full week of June. 

June 20th thru 24th, we will be hosting our 10th annual mountain music school.  Don’t let the word “school” scare you and make you feel sick to your stomach.  Groups of people, all ages, coming together to learn how to play the old time mountain music, as we say, the precursor to the music today, fiddle, banjo, guitar.  Tuition for those living in this great state of Kentucky is $150.00 and $200.00 for out of state participants.  Five very full days at $30 to $40 dollars a day, lunch is included and a potluck on Friday evening.  Can’t beat that price at Krogers’!

Come on over and visit!!! We’ll be looking for ya!!!

Art Stamper Scholarship: Erin Meyer, daugher of Dawn from Warsaw, Kentucky.  She was a student in the Early Intermediate Fiddle Class taught by Michael Garvin.  This was her first year at Cowan Creek.

Burt Hatfield Scholarship: Emily Berry, daugher of Lisa and Craig Marshall, from Burdine, Kentucky.  She was a student in the Beginning Guitar Class taught by Ron Howard. This was her first year at Cowan Creek.

Ray Slone Teaching Assistantship:  Brandon “Farmer” Grigsby, his first year at Cowan Creek Mountain Music School, stepped in and assisted Ron Howard with the Beginning Guitar Class.  He came every day and was a great asset to the music school.

Rodney Sanders Scholarship:  Joseph “Hunter” Holbrook, his first year at Cowan Creek Mountain Music School, was a student in the Early Intermediate Banjo class taught by Ms. Sarah Wood. “Hunter” is the son of Sandy Holbrook and they reside in Jenkins, Kentucky.

Congratulations to these scholarship winners!! Hope to see you next year at Cowan Creek!!!