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    Beginning Bluegrass Mandolin with Jiro Kobuku

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    Presented by Passim Folk Music & Cultural Center at Passim School of Music

    January 14-February 18, 2010

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    Thursdays [6:30 pm] Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18 Jiro Kiboku, of the David Wax Museum, will teach a bluegrass mandolin class for beginners – no experience necessary. Jiro will start with the very basics, and you’ll learn how to hold a mandolin, how to hold a flatpick, and how to you’re your instrument. As you learn to pick and strum, you’ll learn some traditional fiddle tunes and variations for mandolin. Through these songs, Jiro will teach you the chords and scales. At the end of each class, he will give you exercises and tabs to practice each day. Jiro, a phenomenal multi-instrumentalist from Osaka, Japan, found a home in the Japanese bluegrass community, and on his band’s first tour of America, he met his hero Bill Monroe. He later returned to the United States to study at Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2008. In The David Wax Museum, Jiro’s breath-taking dobro solos and spectacular mandolin ability make him a thrill to take in.


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        Passim School of Music

        26 Church Street, Suite 300
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Tickets: $132 nonmembers / $108 Passim members

        Info Phone: 617-491-2382

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        January 14-February 18, 2010

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        6:30 - 7:45 pm

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