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The BNC Instructors Music staff
Nature Staff
Staff Nature Instructors:
Wing Chun Instructor:
Administrative Staff :
Faculty Subject to Availabilities. Special Guests at previous camps have included: Béla
Fleck, Futureman, Joseph Wooten, JD Blair, Edgar Meyer, Bob Babbitt, Victor has a lot of 'famous' friends. Who knows who might be there!
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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.
Adam
Nitti has toured with the Dave Weckl band, Jeff Coffin Mu’tet, the
Justice League, and Angie Aparo, and has also performed with such
legendary jazz artists as Scott Henderson, Peter Erskine, Jimmy
Herring, Mike Stern, Kirk Covington, Wayne Krantz, and many others. He
is currently touring with Steven Curtis Chapman, a 5 time Grammy
winning pop gospel artist based out of Nashville. Adam is also Chief
Learning Officer for MusicDojo.com, an interactive online music school,
and is a bass clinician for SWR and Warrior Instruments. Adam is also a
columnist for Bass Player magazine, is an adjunct faculty member of
Lagrange College's school of music. He has released 3 recordings to date on
Renaissance Man Records.
Anthony
Wellington is Victor's Bass Tech, Stage Manager and Bass Player with the Victor Wooten Band. Anthony teaches over 90 students in the Washington, DC area and has been playing "forever".
Dave Welsch has been playing bass since 1970 and teaching for over 25 years. He works as Management Assistant for Victor, designs and maintains the websites, designs some of the VW merchandise, is Tour Manager for the Victor Wooten Band, and is sometimes known as Vic's Alarm Clock.
Richard is the founder and director of Earth School in Western, NC. He is a former Lead Instructor at Tom Brown's world famous Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey. Richard has also trained and studied extensively with Charles Worsham, a gifted Tracker and teacher of life. He teaches programs throughout the United States and has also led programs in Australia. He has taught survival skills to Navy Seals and civilians alike. During the past 15 years Richard has taught nature awareness and survival skills to thousands of people of all ages. He is an avid outdoorsman, fishing guide, writer and a self-trained Naturalist. Visit his school online at 
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 lives in Nashville, and
is an accomplished craftsman and wilderness Emergency Medical Technician
(EMT). 
Hilary
Penny 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 Colorado 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 13 years.
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Exceptions are noted.