Pinetop Perkins Foundation awards record number of scholarships for 2014 Workshop Experience

The Fifth Annual Master Class Workshop Experience will be held June 18-20, 2014

 
A total of 23 scholarships were awarded to young musicians from 17 different states around the country to attend the Pinetop Perkins Foundation‘s Fifth Annual Master Class Workshops this year in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This includes two youth who were given the Ann Rabson Memorial Scholarship:  Logan Layman from Williamsburg, Virginia was given the piano award, while the guitar award went to Mike Butler from Union Beach, New Jersey. The Pinetop Perkins Foundation awarded an additional 21 scholarships to young musicians attending piano, harmonica and guitar workshops. The scholarship winners this year are an impressive group of accomplished and talented young musicians.
 
Bob Margolin, Austin Young and intern Christone Kingfish Ingram cover the guitar workshop.  The harmonica workshop is led by Gary Allegretto with David Berntson assisting, and Daryl Davis and Clay Swafford lead the piano workshop. They will be joined by a number of adult workshop participants for the three-day event.
 
The workshops begin on June 17 with a meet-and-greet dinner at Hopson Commissary. It includes a reception Thursday evening at the Delta Blues Museum and concludes with a gala performance at Ground Zero on Friday evening, June 20.  Although the scholarships are closed, a limited number of slots are still available in the harmonica and piano workshops.  The guitar workshop is filled up for this year.

Logan Layman is part of a sibling duo called “In Layman Terms” hailing from Williamsburg, Virginia where Logan is an eight grader at Toano Middle School. Logan and her brother Cole have a passion for the blues and write original, foot stomping music. They have been making music together for as long as they can remember. Logan was named “Blues Kid of the Year” in 2013. She is known as the little girl with the BIG voice.  Logan’s favorite female vocalist is Shemekia Copeland.

Eighteen-year-old Mikey Butler hails from Union Beach New Jersey, and has been playing for almost 12 years and studying under blues great Matt O’Ree for seven.  His main blues influences are Alvin Lee (of Ten Years After), Steve Miller, and Joe Bonamassa.  He says that “I am honestly just an average teenager off-stage with average grades and a good group of fdriends.  But on stage I am Mikey B.  A whole new persona comes out and I let my guitar take hold of the audience to pull them in.”  This is Mikey’s second time studying with Bob Margolin at the Pinetop Foundation Workshops.  He writes that Bob “has inspired me to do so much with music and I feel like my time in Clarksdale isn’t done yet.”

Pinetop Perkins Foundation 2014 Scholarship Winners

 

Adam Land	Piano	Fremont, Indiana
Sophie Bernheisel	Piano	Greenbelt, Maryland

 

Andrew Sullivan	Guitar	Vancleave, Mississippi
Cole Layman	Guitar	Williamsburg, Virginia
Jesse Black	Guitar	Jasper, Tennessee
Garrett Parker	Guitar	Rockwall, Texas
Joe Tellmann	Guitar	Franklin, Ohio
Alissa Grattuso-Chesis	Guitar	Denver, Colorado
Adam Miller	Guitar	Novato, California
Jake Kulak	Guitar	Glastonbury, Conneticut
Kelsey Carlisle_	Guitar	Mt. Airy, North Carolina
Connor Stith	Guitar	Bowling Green, Kentucky
Derex  Williams	Guitar	Helena, Arkansas
Ian Glass	Guitar	Indianapolis, Indiana
Nic Clark	Harmonica	Arvada, Colorado
Evan Hawk	Harmonica	Franklin, Indiana
Carson Diersing	Harmonica	New Palistine, Indiana
Justin Gates	Harmonica	Rockford, Illinois
Nigel Schonfeld	Harmonica	Shelbyville, Indiana
Marcus Cartwright	Harmonica	Holly Grove, Mississippi
Aidan Thomas Hornaday	Harmonica	Atlanta, Georgia

Further information and a complete schedule of events are available on the Pinetop Perkins Foundation website at www.pinetopfoundation.org

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