Lizzy has recently launched her new online fiddle school
"PUT THE FIDDLE IN THE MIDDLE"
Put the Fiddle in the Middle Club is a community where you can take a deep dive into roots music and build confidence as a fiddler. Through an innovative blend of roots music immersion methods, you will find pathways to more ease on your instrument. Whether you're a casual or professional fiddler, our supportive community fosters growth and creativity, ensuring you flourish as a musician.
Book a chat with Lizzy to learn more!
For 13 years, Lizzy offered private and group music lessons to students of the Gunnison Valley. Her lessons were rooted in ear-based music training with the foundations of both classical violin and traditional fiddle traditions. Students benefited from full immersion in music study with lessons in music theory, site-reading, improvisation, tone, performance, and jamming techniques.
Lizzy taught violin, fiddle, guitar, mandolin and songwriting to students in Crested Butte, Gunnison, and Almont.
Lizzy has a deep love for the art of play music. After developing the foundations for proper technique, she encourages her students to have fun and let loose while playing music. Often, Lizzy will teach singing, body percussion, meditation, writing exercises and dance along with the instrument techniques to help her students become more relaxed and confident as carriers of rhythm and melody.
Listen to the Music Camp for Kids
Founded in 2014, Listen to the Music camp is an exploratory camp for children ages 6 and up in the Gunnison Valley that teaches nature awareness, listening, music composition, critical thinking, and the basic tenants of environmental stewardship.
Through music, art, play, hiking, journaling, scavenging, exploring, community building, poetry and jamming, Listen to the Music campers get a chance to connect to themselves, nature, each other and develop techniques for creative expression with the support of Lizzy as their guide and teacher.
Lizzy offers fall, winter and spring informal group lessons to home-school groups, pre-schools, libraries in addition to her camps which are open to the public in the summer. Please be in touch if you are interested in hiring Lizzy for programming.
Jollification Camp
Fiddle camp for adults in the High Rockies
In August 2017, Lizzy Plotkin and Jenny Hill hosted the inaugural Jollification Camp!
2018 was a blast!
