Guitar, voice, and harmonica

Greig is a long-time Americana community member, and hosts the Staturday community jams, aswell as Americana nightWednesdays at Cutter's in Eudora.  He usually finds himself in a working band, playing around town, and focuses on techiniques helpful for playing in a group in his lessons.  Greg can help you learn classic rock, blues, folk, and many other styles, as well as songwriting, and singing and playing guitar at the same time.  And if you want to learn harmonica,Greg is your man. 

Violin

Cyril had been teaching violin for ten years and playing for twenty-one when he wandered into Americana Music Academy.  Since everyone there is uncommon friendly, they didn’t turn him out, and he now teaches anyone who wants beginner or intermediate lessons on the violin and viola.  Cyril has particular experience with the Suzuki Violin Method, which emphasizes ear training and provides an excellent foundation for learning a broad range of playing styles.  He enjoys teaching and usually loses track of when the lesson was supposed to end.

Drums and Percussion

Dylan Bassett is a composer, percussionist, and teacher. He has been playing percussion for over 20 years and holds a B.A. in Music. His 17 years of experience teaching include work with the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Drury University, Webster University Dance Institute, Missouri State University, the Missouri Arts Council, Gash Voight Dance Theatre, Americana Music Academy, and out of his private studio. Dylan teaches private lessons in drum set, snare drum, keyboards, congas, djembe, orchestral and marching percussion, as well as traditional African, Cuban, and Brazilian drumming.

He has performed in numerous jazz, rock, African, blues, and fusion bands throughout the U.S and in Africa. Dylan is currently directing the KU African Drum and Dance Ensemble and performing with the afro-jazz-funk band SUNU and various jazz bands in the area.

Vocals / Guitar

Raised on the plains of Kansas, Ashley Davis is a musician whose songs are as much a product of the natural beauty found in her childhood environment as they are the bluegrass, folk and classic country sounds that surrounded her in her youth. Through her many travels and experiences, a Master of Arts in Traditional Irish Music from the University of

Limerick, Ashley has grown into a true artist, whose influences live in ancient Celtic lore and American folk music.

Come to Ashley for singing lessons or beginner's guitar. She is a full-time, touring musician who teaches when not on the road. If you want to learn to sing, improve the voice you have, learn what repertoire best suits your voice, accompany yourself while singing, learn to play guitar from scratch, Ashley's the one for you. For more information on Ashley, visit her website at www.daisyrings.com or email her directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

 "If traditional Irish music in the U.S. is to become anything other than a museum piece, it needs people like Ashley Davis." -Sean O Driscoll/ Irish Times

Piano, voice, bass, and beginner guitar

Heidi Gluck is accepting students of all ages and skill levels for voice, electric bass, piano, beginner guitar,
songwriting, demo-recording, group and ensemble lessons.

She tailors her lessons to the musical desires of her students and believes that fun comes first when learning or practicing an instrument. Heidi grew up in Canada where her first job in junior high was playing in her mom's band. She studied music at the University of North Dakota, and has since had the pleasure of performing around North America and Europe on the road and in the studio with acclaimed bands, playing bass, guitar, lap steel, keyboards, and singing.

Banjo / Guitar / Fiddle

Jim has been playing guitar since his teens, and fiddle and banjo since the early 1980s. In the early 2000s, he became interested in the folk traditions of fife and drum corps, having realized that many of the old fiddle tunes were used as marches by fifers during the early days of the Republic. He has performed and toured with such groups as The 97th Regimental Stringband, and The Euphoria Stringband.

Jim specializes in fife, finger-picking guitar, old-time contra-dance style fiddle, and the claw-hammer style of banjo playing. He is a former banjo contest award winner at the National Fiddling and Picking Championships.

He currently performs with the alt-country group Getty Township playing 6- and 12-string guitars, fiddle and vocals.

Mandolin / Guitar / Vocals

Pedal Steel Guitar and Dobro

Banjo

Noah Musser plays banjo in the bluegrass band The Prairie Acre. After seeing Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys bring the house down in Bean Blossom, Indiana in 1973, Noah immediately fell asleep. He was 2 years old. As a lasting effect of that early exposure, Noah had recurring banjo dreams for 22 years until purchasing his first 5-string in 1995, As a daytime graphic designer and illustrator, Noah’s musical approach brings together the precision of an engineer with the spontaneity of a artist.

Piano / Guitar / Bass

Michael Paull was born and raised in Ft. Collins, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He moved to Lawrence in 1993 ("I thought I'd go see what the horizon looked like.") where he has lived ever since. In January of 2003 he became a staff teacher at the Americana Music Academy and keyboard player in a number of musical groups promoting awareness of the school's community outreach programs. He teaches all skill levels on piano, incorporating early jazz, classical (including Ives and Copeland), folk blues, country, rock n' roll and any creative mixture of these styles for composition and improvisation. Michael performs his own works frequently and coordinates other performers for benefits and various local music events.

Director, Americana Music Academy

Fiddle/Violin/Beginning Mandolin & Guitar

Mandolin

Joe is a Lawrence native who is known for his meticulous rhythm and clean style on the mandolin. He began playing the mandolin at the age of nine and has been performing in local bands for over twenty years. Joe was a two-time Kansas Fiddling and Picking youth award winner and in 1999 was named the Kansas Fiddling and Picking mandolin champion. He also won the RockyGrass mandolin contest in 2000. In addition to his fine mandolin technique, Joe holds a Master’s degree in Education.

 Ukulele

Linda got interested in playing ukulele when she regularly attended old-time music jams. Tired of being an observer, Linda mentioned to a friend that she wished she had a banjo ukulele to play at the music sessions. Two years later that friend surprised her with a Christmas gift of a 1926 Sears and Roebuck banjo ukulele – the $3 model!

Since 2006, Linda has been a performing member of the Kansas City Ukesters, a ukulele club in Mission, Kansas. She also teaches ukulele workshops at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.

Linda's classes focus on beginning and intermediate students who play soprano, concert and tenor-sized ukuleles. These sessions are tailored to the preferences and interests of the student. Beginning sessions include tuning, entry-level songs, how to learn and remember new songs, and jamming etiquette. Intermediate classes include: songs using more advanced chord progressions, transposing and strum patterns.