Victor Wooten's Bass/Nature Camp

The B/NC Week-End 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.

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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/.

Special Guests at previous camps have included:

Béla Fleck, Futureman, Joseph Wooten, JD Blair, Edgar Meyer, Bob Babbitt,
Derek Jones, Leni Stern, Christian McBride, Rudy Wooten, Kenny Davis, Mike Pope,
Oteil Burbridge, Bill Dickens, Muriel Anderson, Jim Roberts, Neoshi Jackson, Jennie Hoeft,
Rhonda Smith, Derico Watson, Pamelia Kurstin, Michael Kott, Barry Green, Kelly Gravely,
Marcus Miller, Dr. Randy Kertz, Howard Levy, Roy Vogt, Kai Eckhardt, Richard Bona,
Stu Hamm, Will Lee, Michael Manring, John Billings, Joe Murphy, and more!

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