Our new home will allow us to offer a full array of activities associated with community music organizations. Some of the programming we're looking at:

• Field trips to bring students to our facility for day-time performances and workshops


• Outreach programs that send Freight musicians and teachers to school classrooms


• Ensemble and master classes


• Private and group instruction


• A library/resource center of books, photographs, recordings, videos, memorabilia, etc.


• Touring musicians can conduct workshops, lectures, and symposiums


• A retail outlet offering books, recordings, instructional materials, and musical instruments

I. Basic Courses:

• Beginning guitar, fiddle, and mandolin
• Blues guitar
• Clawhammer banjo
• Bluegrass banjo

II. Advanced Courses:

• Klezmer mandolin (Tony Phillips)
• Songwriting (Danny Carnahan)
• Clawhammer guitar (Michael Stadler)
• Clawhammer banjo (Evie Ladin)
• A dozen ways to work a flatpick (Ray Bierl)
• Folktales: How music is learned (Kevin Carr)
• Swing rhythm guitar (Tony Marcus)
• Old time fiddle and string band (Suzy Thompson)
• Medieval and Renaissance music and madrigals (Shira Kammen)
• Expanding your Irish song repertoire (Shay Black)
• Architecture of music (Kyle Thayer)
• Irish airs (Melanie O'Reilly)