Don't forget SharonC's announcement: 

Bach In-the-subways Worldwide Event 21-31 March 2022

Totally unrelated, I just got a notice about this:

Peghead Nation is having a new workshop starting in a few days "Improvising for Fiddlers and Violinists" with Alisa Rose! 

The classes start on Thursday, February 24, 2022, from 5 PM to 6 PM Pacific Time (8 pm to 9 pm Eastern Time). The live sessions will be held every other Thursday evening, ending June 2.

In this eight-session workshop, you’ll learn to improvise and connect to your own creative impulses through musical games, simple exercises, and fiddle tunes. You’ll explore improvisation fundamentals of rhythm and pitch as well as learn how to create and vary melodies, use small building blocks or motifs to build a solo, practice scales and arpeggios, and much more. These exercises can be useful for a musician of any level as they work on fundamental skills of listening deeply, understanding structure and form, and relating to pulse and pitch with awareness. Alisa’s workshop series is designed for intermediate-to-advanced violinists and fiddlers but will be worthwhile for players of other instruments as well.

Alisa’s approach to improvising and practicing improvising was developed from years as a professional musician in a variety of musical contexts, including improvising on fiddle tunes with Scroggins and Rose, improvising for contemporary silent film scores with the Clubfoot Orchestra, improvising with the Real Vocal String Quartet, and as an Improvisation Ensemble instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Alisa has this to say about her workshop: “My path into improvisation was primarily through playful exploring and following my ears. In this workshop, we’ll play games that explore isolated fundamental aspects of improvising. I encourage you to approach these exercises, or as I call them games, with a sense of play. Please know you can do no wrong. Play all the weird notes or sounds you want to—it’s part of figuring out what you want to play and freeing yourself from the eternally judging internal critic we musicians tend to have inside at all times. It can be overwhelming to be told to improvise or compose with total freedom, so these games will start with improvising with extreme limits, using only one note, or all notes and no rhythm, and we will build skills from there. I hope you can join us!”

Please join us for Improvising for Fiddlers and Violinists! Click here to see Alisa’s introductory video and to sign up.