To organize and conduct traditional and folk music education classes and workshops for adults and children, and to provide concert performance opportunities for students of such classes and workshops, and to support professional performances of such music conducted by the berkeley society for the preservation of traditional music, a california nonprofit corporation.

Arts & Culture , Single Organization Support

The organization, in collaboration with the berkeley society for the preservation of traditional music, conducted music education classes and workshops. The organization offered 110 workshops, with 1,525 students. Also offered were 189 6-week classes throughout the year, with 1,325 students in attendance. Class and workshop offerings include instruction in banjo, guitar, mandolin, folk song repertoire, fiddle, harmony singing, songwriting, music theory, dulcimer, upright bass, harmonica, and ukulele, along with multi-instrument ensemble classes focusing on bluegrass and old-time string music styles. the organization holds an annual "fiddlekids" camp for one week during the summer. 60 children attended the 2014 fiddlekids camp classes.