ResoSummit: Total Dobro Overload by Design!

ResoSummit=3 days of workshops by a diverse, stellar faculty; 3 evening performances at the Station Inn plus a closing faculty Dobro All-Stars performance; after-hours jams; luthier consultations; and more. ResoSummit's home is the Scarritt-Bennett Center, a beautiful campus in Nashville's Music Row-Vanderbilt area.
Our goal: To send you home with enough homework, ideas, and especially inspiration to make this a highly creative and productive time in your musical life.

Registration Fee: $430
Includes all workshops & activities, 3 Station Inn performances, and the closing Dobro All-Stars performance. Does not include optional on-site housing or meals. The registration fee is unchanged from 2012; on-site housing fees are lower than 2012. Optional on-site meals will be available by pre-order, with orders taken closer to the event.

Registration+Wait List

Registration opened exclusively to those on the ResoSummit email list at 7:05 pm CST, and sold out at 8:14pm. If you are interested in attending ResoSummit, don't despair - we make offers to many people on the wait list every year.

Sign up for the wait list by completing our simple online registration survey.

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Schedule highlights

ResoSummit begins on Thursday, Nov. 14. Registration opens at 3pm, and on-site room check-in opens then also. There is an optional "get acquainted" dinner at 5:30pm in the Susie Gray Dining Hall at the Scarritt-Bennett Center, our ResoSummit "home", and the first official event of ResoSummit will be an 8pm performance at the Station Inn by Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes. Informal jamming space will be available beginning at 1pm, and is available after-hours each day of ResoSummit, as deep into the night as you wish to use it.

Friday, Nov. 15 features an all-Summit opening session, where you'll meet the faculty and hear them play in duos. Three workshop sessions follow, plus an "optional activities" hour with options ranging from informal performances and demos to one-on-one opportunities to consult with faculty and our staff luthiers during "office hours". After a dinner break we'll be back at the Station Inn for a performance by the Dale Ann Bradley Band (Phil Leadbetter on dobro), followed by informal after-hours jamming.

Saturday, Nov. 16 has a similar schedule, with four workshop sessions, plus an optional activities hour, and an 8pm performance at The Station Inn featuring Flatt Lonesome, featuring Michael Stockton on dobro

Sunday, Nov. 17 features two morning workshop sessions, plus one 2-hour session after lunch. There is an opportunity on Sunday for a workshop at a nearby recording studio, and the 2-hour final workshop is a good opportunity for a more in-depth treatment of key topics. ResoSummit then closes with "Dobro All-Stars" faculty performance, which will end by 6pm. Some participants leave on Sunday afternoon or evening; others stay overnight and leave on Monday, so we provide after-hours jamming space for Sunday night.

Workshops

ResoSummit offers approx. 80 workshops during 10 workshop sessions, covering a broad range of topics. The workshop schedule includes core topics offered every year, along with new topics based on faculty interests and suggestions from prior years' surveys. Check out the 2013 Workshops here.