Midwest Banjo Camp

Dates for Next Camp: June 5-8, 2025

**Registration for MBC 2025 Is Open. Sign Up Today!**

 This Was Our MBC 2024 Program Schedule

New This Year: Full-Time Programs in Bass and Voice

MBC 2025 Band-in-Residence: Special Consensus

Midwest Banjo Camp 2025 will take place June 5-8, 2025 at Manchester University in North Manchester, Indiana. At MBC, you can study old-time or bluegrass banjo with some of today’s best players and teachers in both styles; we also offer full programs in bass, tenor banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and voice. Our program features hands-on classes, demonstrations, two faculty concerts, and still leaves lots of time for jamming with your fellow banjo enthusiasts.

“Special” feature for 2025. The entire Special Consensus bluegrass band – Greg Cahill, Greg Blake, Dan Eubanks & Brian McCarty – is in residence. We’ll announce their role and activities once we’re closer to camp.

Midwest Banjo Camp offers the following instruction options

Format

MBC runs from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon and offers nine class sessions — four on Friday, three on Saturday and two on Sunday (with about 20 different classes per session and nine sessions, this means you’ll have around 180 options to choose from over the course of Camp). There are staff concerts on both Friday and Saturday evenings. Half of our staff performs on Friday, and the other half on Saturday; so over the course of the weekend you’ll have the opportunity to hear our entire staff in concert!

We also offer instructor-led jams on Thursday and Friday evening, and another instructor-led jam on Saturday afternoon (that’s three in all!)

Finally, on Thursday evening you’ll will have a chance to experience our entertaining and informative demonstrations – round robin presentations by our instructors on various musical themes.

For more information on all these activities go to Program, Classes in Bluegrass Banjo & Old-Time Banjo, Other Instruments & Voice, Concerts & Jams, and Demonstrations. Or simply go to the Program menu and browse the offerings.

Videos from Faculty Concerts

Check out video recordings on YouTube of our Instructors performing at the MBC 2024 Faculty Concerts.

You can also view videos on YouTube made during the MBC 2023 Faculty Concerts. and the MBC 2022 Faculty Concerts.

Here’s a link to videos on YouTube made at MBC Faculty Concerts during all years from  2011 to the present (to access them all, go to “Playlists”).

Here Is Our 2024 Camp Photo!! 

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2025 Instructors

Bluegrass Banjo: Keith Billik, Greg Cahill, Eli Gilbert, James McKinney, Beth Mead, Ricky Mier, Steven Moore, Alan Munde, and Grace van’t Hof

Old-Time Banjo: Sam Bartlett, Hilarie Burhans, Howie Bursen, Victor Furtado, Adam Hurt, Michael Miles, Ken Perlman, Lukas Pool, and Molly Tenenbaum

Tenor Banjo, Other Instruments, & Voice

  • Tenor Banjo: Tyler Jackson
  • Bass: Dan Eubanks
  • Fiddle: Jane Rothfield
  • Guitar: Greg Blake
  • Mandolin: Brian McCarty
  • Voice: Elizabeth Loring

Click for for instructor photos and bios.

How to Register for MBC

Check out our Registration Info page; links are there that get you directly to our registration form.

Travel to MBC

For information on travel to Camp, go to the Camp Info menu and click on the “Our Venue” page. Or simply click here.

Our Archive Page

Check out our Archive Page and learn about the Midwest Banjo Camp tradition. It lists all our world-class faculties, gives thumbnail links to our group photos, and displays every one  of our “cool & unusual” T-shirt designs:  2005-2024. There were no group photos or T-shirt designs during the Pandemic years 2020 and 2021.

This Was Our MBC 2024 “Out of This World” T-Shirt Design

This lively scene from MBC’s second century – held in a galaxy far, far away – was created by Michigan artist Dennis Preston.