Instructors

 

 

Victor Wooten is the bassist with the Grammy Award winning Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. Since the age of 5, Victor has been entertaining and amazing audiences around the world with his funky grooves and jaw-dropping thumb technique. He also has an intense love of the outdoors and a deep commitment to education. He has been teaching music for many years and has studied and practiced outdoor skills with Tom Brown, Jr., Charles Worsham, and others. He teaches basic animal tracking in Nashville, TN. Victor will be teaching both music and outdoors skills during each day of the camp.

 

Steve Bailey has held down the groove with top artists from every style from Dizzy Gillespie, Larry Carlton, and The Rippingtons to Willie Nelson. His collaborations with Victor and Bass Extremes have thrilled and amazed audiences all over the world. Steve is a first-call bassist on both coasts, performing on electric 6-string fretless and acoustic bass.

 

Regi Wooten, the oldest Wooten brother, is known as 'teacha' by many musicians in the Nashville area and beyond. Regi started the whole thing when he first taught Victor to play bass. If you're amazed by what you see Victor do on bass, wait until you see (and hear) Regi do it on guitar! Regi has many students in Nashville and has a unique teaching style. Victor says, "He's the best guitarist and one of the best bass players I know."

 

Adam Nitti is a bassist, composer and educator from Atlanta, GA. He heads the bass department at the Atlanta Institute of Music and is the author of 8 volumes of bass curriculum there. He is the first-call session bassist in Atlanta with commercial credits including Coca-Cola, the Atlanta Braves, Disney, IBM, Cartoon Network, Home Depot and others. Adam is a clinician for SWR amplifiers and D'Addario Strings. Visit Adam OnLine

Hilary Lauer grew up in Colorado where she spent many summers in the mountains camping and hiking. She took many classes at, then became a volunteer for Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature & Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey. Finally she became a full-time instructor for Tom Brown's school for three years, where her specialties were awareness, hide tanning, stalking and movement. She now lives in Pennsylvania and is a wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and teaches wilderness emergency first aid for Wilderness Medical Associates. She's also been an avid guitar player for the past 9 years.

Seth Recarde grew up in Pennsylvania and began practicing native and wilderness living skills when he was only 10 years old. After many years of experience he became a "caretaker" for Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature & Wilderness Survival School's camp in New Jersey, living in a handmade shelter and practicing skills for a year. Then he taught as an instructor for two years for Tom Brown's School where his specialties were shelter, fire, rock working and bow-making. Seth now lives back in Pennsylvania, and is an accomplished craftsman and wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

 

Richard Cleveland is the former Head Instructor at Tom Brown's world famous Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey. He now owns and operates Earth School, in western North Carolina, and has taught nature awareness and native skills to thousands of people of all ages. Richard is also a trained in first aid and wilderness medicine. Visit his school online at http://www.lovetheearth.com/.

 

Other teaching and support Staff members include:

Holly Wooten, Colleen Katsuki, Anthony Wellington, Dave Katsuki, JD Blair, Kurt Storey, Justin Katsuki,
Sifu Brian Edwards, Jonathan Morse, Dave Welsch, Danette Albetta, The Wooten Brothers,

and our camp mascot:

FAITH

Victor has a lot of 'famous' friends. Who knows who might be there!