Georgia Pick & Bow Traditional Music School

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Photos: Students in Lumpkin County are keeping bluegrass and old-time music traditions alive as part of the Georgia Pick & Bow Traditional Music School. April 2013.

Selu Adams focuses on her instructor's every bow stroke as she learns a new fiddle tune. (All text by Margo Booth.)

Curtis Jones (second from left) teaches guitar and mandolin in the program. Here, he talks to advanced guitar students in his summer camp class. The week of camp gives students an opportunity for concentrated instruction in the instrument and also offers electives such as song, dance, storytelling, and arts and crafts.

Hannah From (right) gets a lesson in upright bass from instructor Geoff Hohwald.

Nathaniel Rogers takes in knowledge from his teacher during guitar class.

Pick & Bow instructor Parker Highsmith (right) works with fiddlers on their rhythm during a jam session.

Hannah Eary and Cory Pender showed up at Pick & Bow camp as veteran performers, putting a song together for the camp's end of the week showcase.

Curtis Jones plays his banjo as he gives instruction to Callie Cantrell, the bass player for the Pick & Bow Bluegrass Band.

Sky Hancock (left) and Morgan Clark practice a new fiddle tune.

The Pick & Bow Bluegrass Band on stage. Pictured are, from left, Parker Cantrell, Jackson Cantrell, Callie Cantrell, Angie Joaquim and Savannah Cantrell.

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Selu Adams focuses on her instructor's every bow stroke as she learns a new fiddle tune. (All text by Margo Booth.)

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