Winter Village Music Camp 2025

Winter Village Music Camp is a fun and inspiring winter weekend of learning, listening and playing music in a friendly and welcoming setting. The camp is designed for musicians of all skill and experience levels, offering nearly one hundred workshops on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, ukulele, singing, and songwriting in a variety of styles including Bluegrass, Old Time, Irish, New England, Cajun, Scandinavian, Swing, Folk and Americana. Our faculty is comprised of touring professional performers along with many of Ithaca’s finest teacher-performers. You can study with Rachel Eddy, Emily Miller & Jesse Milnes, Judy Hyman, Kevin Wimmer, Louise Bichan & Ethan Setiaway, Quinn Bachand & Natalie Padilla, the Clements Brothers, Eli Gilbert, Richie Stearns, Austin Scelzo, Joey Arcuri, Dave Davies, Tim Ball, Tenzin Chopak, Laura Hart, Benny Bleu, Perry Cleaveland, Maria Gillard, Paul Fairbanks, and Rick Manning. Whether playing on the front porch or the performance stage, Winter Village offers musicians the tools to play better, practice more effectively, enhance performance skills to help you share your love for music with others.

In addition to workshops, the camp offers jamming at all experience levels and styles, and three great faculty concerts - an opening concert on Thursday evening (not included in weekend registration fee), a Saturday Night Camp All-Faculty Concert (included in your registration), and a closing concert on Sunday evening (not included).

For those who have attended past Winter Village Camps, please note that Winter Village is moving after 14 great years at La Tourelle to downtown Ithaca with food and lodging at the Canopy Hotel & Strand Cafe and workshops & performances at the Community School of Music & Arts. We are excited about the move and look forward to sharing all that downtown Ithaca has to offer to our guests and visitors.

Early weekend registration pricing is available through October 31st. On November 1st weekend pricing will increase to $325 for adults and $275 for students & seniors.

SPECIAL REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS

• Spending the weekend at the Canopy Hotel? Email [email protected] with your proof of overnight room purchase and we will send you a promo code to for $25 off of your camp registration fee. This offer is good only during early registration period through October 31.
• Are you a CSMA Member? Email [email protected] with proof of membership and we will send you a promo code for a $50 discount on your camp registration fee. If you are not a member you can join CSMA for $75 and get a variety of benefits while supporting this fine organization and getting $50 off your camp registration.

Host or Publisher Rick Manning