Redwood Music Kid Camp Faculty 2023
SARAH NEWMAN – HARP and keyboards
Sarah Newman is a multi-instrumentalist with over 10 years music teaching experience with all ages. She currently plays and teaches on all saxophones, Harp, Piano, Vocal’s, Ukulele, and rainbow hand bell choir groups At Be Natural Music. and teaches at Spring Hill School she is a UCSC graduate with a Major in community Studies and a minor in Jazz Music. she is very passionate about sharing the joys of playing harp and finds it a very natural instrument to play. Sarah has been teaching private lessons on folk harp for six years and enjoys inspiring song writing and improvising on harp as well with all ages.
Shelley Phillips – guitars
Shelley Phillips has a Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Shelley has appeared on more than 20 albums on the Gourd music label, including her solo albums The Fairie Round, Pavane, The Butterfly, and The Wood Between the Worlds, as well as a duet album with Barry called Wondrous Love. In addition she teaches at several other summer programs, including founding the Boxwood Flute Festival's children's, teens' and seniors' programs in Nova Scotia and teaching music related crafts at various primitive skills gatherings in the west. Shelley is the founder of Community Music School of Santa Cruz. She lives on the foggy California coast with her husband and her very spoiled cat.
abigail goodman – flutes and whistles
ABBY IS A CLAWHAMMER BANJO AND WHISTLE PLAYER TRAINED IN OLD-TIME AND CELTIC MUSIC. SHE ALSO ENJOYS SINGING AND SONGWRITING, AND HAS RELEASED HER FIRST ALBUM UNDER THE NAME OF THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. ABBY IS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL TEEN BAND, AND HAS ATTENDED TEEN CAMP FOR SEVERAL YEARS. CMS HAS HELPED HER DEVELOP A DEEP PASSION FOR PLAYING AND TEACHING MUSIC, AND SHE IS EXCITED TO TEACH WINDS AT KID CAMP THIS YEAR.
Brianna Ady – bowed instruments
Brianna has been playing traditional music since the age of seven, when she first began to learn the violin. Though she does also have classical training, folk music has always been at the heart of her musical growth and exploration, fostered in no small part by the Community Music School summer camps. She has many years of experience helping students and staff alike at these camps, but the rest of the year is currently teaching general music education at Old Orchard School in Campbell.