Midwest Banjo Camp

June 5-8, 2025 / North Manchester, IN

Midwest Banjo Camp 2025 will take place June 5-8, 2025, at Manchester University in North Manchester, Indiana. At MBC, you can study old-time or bluegrass banjo with some of today’s best players and teachers in both styles; we also offer full programs in bass, tenor banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and voice. Our program features hands-on classes, demonstrations, and two faculty concerts, and it still leaves lots of time for jamming with your fellow banjo enthusiasts.

“Special” feature for 2025. The entire Special Consensus bluegrass band – Greg Cahill, Greg Blake, Dan Eubanks & Brian McCarty – is in residence. We’ll announce their role and activities once we’re closer to camp.

This is our 20th Camp coming up (not counting Pandemic cancellations). For more on the history of MBC, check out our Camp Archives.

Midwest Banjo Camp offers the following instruction options

Susanville Music Camp

June 17-19 / Susanville, CA

This year the Susanville Bluegrass Festival will provide a great and affordable opportunity to improve your instrument playing capabilities and vocal skills in a relaxing classroom atmosphere, including one-on-one time with some of the best bluegrass musicians/instructors in the industry today. Our instructors specialize in guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, and vocals, as well as songwriting. Our list of instructors are touch to match the likes of Rick Sparks, Music Camp Director and Vocal Class Instructor, the 2023 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Award winner, Greg Blake, guitar, and his band “Hometown” include, Brian McCarty, mandolin, Todd Davis, banjo, and Grant Cochran, bass.

Bluegrass Camp at Ashokan

August 4-8, 2025

IBMA Mentor of the Year, Kimber Ludiker, hosts this fun and friendly week of bluegrass instruction and jamming for fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass, harmony singing, songwriting, and, new this year, dobro! Learn from inspirational teachers hand-picked to cultivate a magical learning experience. There’ll be classes, concerts, mini-lessons, band scrambles, open mics, and more. All levels and backgrounds are welcome!

FOR INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED PLAYERS: Get personalized feedback, improve your instrumental skills, and jam with players of a similar ability.

FOR BEGINNERS: The schedule will include one instrument class per day at a beginner level, plus plenty of time to practice what you learned, and opportunities to jam at extra slow tempos with other beginners.

Walker Creek Music Camp

October 23-26, 2025 / Petaluma, CA

For students of all ages who love to play and sing Traditional American Music!
Bluegrass, Oldtime and other related styles.
Held at the beautiful Walker Creek Ranch near the SF Bay Area