About
West Marin Fiddle Camp is an outdoor, all-acoustic camp where students spend a week learning and sharing new tunes in folk, old-time, bluegrass, country, cajun/zydeco, and roots music. The program includes classes, workshops, band classes, an all-day kids program, evening fires, jams, teacher concerts by the fire pit, a pre-party concert, and a student concert. Daily activities include yoga, meditation, walks, warm-up time, guided nature walks to the garden, tide pools, beach, forest, and butterfly grove, as well as quiet time, relaxation, a wild card workshop, dance, jamming and hanging, and sleepy time.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: One-week session spending a week at West Marin Fiddle Camp, with camping from Sunday evening July 19 after 5:30pm until Saturday morning July 25, 2026, and Monday–Friday programming July 20–24, 2026; day campers attend 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Monday–Friday.
• Price: $1150 for Overnight Campers (includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, workshops Monday–Friday plus camping Sunday evening until Saturday morning); $875 for Full-day Campers (includes afternoon/evening programming, lunch, and dinner, no camping); $675 for Day Campers 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Monday–Friday (includes lunch); students may pay a 50% deposit plus $50 deposit fee with the remaining half due on or before July 1st; no refunds are available, and if the camp cancels due to natural causes, participants receive credit toward a rescheduled event or a refund minus a $100 processing fee if they cannot attend the rescheduled time.
West Marin Fiddle Camp describes its mission as an outdoor, all-acoustic camp focused on folk, old-time, bluegrass, country, cajun/zydeco, and roots music, preserving American folk heritage through oral tradition. It is described as a small, artist-run, grassroots, family camp centered around community and friendship, with about 50–75 total campers and limited spots available. The camp is described as a grass roots music camp offering classes, workshops, and concerts featuring world-class instructors teaching acoustic guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and more, with an emphasis on learning by ear and no sheet music.
Overnight campers sleep in their own tents or, with prior notice, in their own vans or RVs, and this is an outdoor camping event with indoor instrument storage available in a Yurt. Bathroom facilities are limited to portable toilets and outdoor showers with limited hot water, and participants are reminded to leave no trace when packing up on Saturday. All students are asked to do two meal shifts during the week, one cooking meal shift and one meal clean up shift, and homemade, locally-sourced, healthy meals with gourmet dinners are served, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner for overnight campers and lunch and dinner for full-day campers. The event happens rain or shine, includes picking fresh fruit off the trees, and students under 21 must be accompanied by a paying parent or guardian, with overnight campers under age 18 required to have a paying supervising guardian on site.
One testimonial describes West Marin Fiddle Camp as an “absolutely amazing experience” and “a truly special place” for deepening a musical journey, with a nurturing and inspiring environment where musical growth happens naturally and joyfully. The same testimonial highlights the kids program as warm and welcoming, with a balance of structured music learning and playful downtime, and describes it as a great first step for a parent and child to share time together and get introduced to fiddle tunes.
Last updated June 11, 2026.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: One-week session spending a week at West Marin Fiddle Camp, with camping from Sunday evening July 19 after 5:30pm until Saturday morning July 25, 2026, and Monday–Friday programming July 20–24, 2026; day campers attend 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Monday–Friday.
• Price: $1150 for Overnight Campers (includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, workshops Monday–Friday plus camping Sunday evening until Saturday morning); $875 for Full-day Campers (includes afternoon/evening programming, lunch, and dinner, no camping); $675 for Day Campers 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Monday–Friday (includes lunch); students may pay a 50% deposit plus $50 deposit fee with the remaining half due on or before July 1st; no refunds are available, and if the camp cancels due to natural causes, participants receive credit toward a rescheduled event or a refund minus a $100 processing fee if they cannot attend the rescheduled time.
West Marin Fiddle Camp describes its mission as an outdoor, all-acoustic camp focused on folk, old-time, bluegrass, country, cajun/zydeco, and roots music, preserving American folk heritage through oral tradition. It is described as a small, artist-run, grassroots, family camp centered around community and friendship, with about 50–75 total campers and limited spots available. The camp is described as a grass roots music camp offering classes, workshops, and concerts featuring world-class instructors teaching acoustic guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and more, with an emphasis on learning by ear and no sheet music.
Overnight campers sleep in their own tents or, with prior notice, in their own vans or RVs, and this is an outdoor camping event with indoor instrument storage available in a Yurt. Bathroom facilities are limited to portable toilets and outdoor showers with limited hot water, and participants are reminded to leave no trace when packing up on Saturday. All students are asked to do two meal shifts during the week, one cooking meal shift and one meal clean up shift, and homemade, locally-sourced, healthy meals with gourmet dinners are served, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner for overnight campers and lunch and dinner for full-day campers. The event happens rain or shine, includes picking fresh fruit off the trees, and students under 21 must be accompanied by a paying parent or guardian, with overnight campers under age 18 required to have a paying supervising guardian on site.
One testimonial describes West Marin Fiddle Camp as an “absolutely amazing experience” and “a truly special place” for deepening a musical journey, with a nurturing and inspiring environment where musical growth happens naturally and joyfully. The same testimonial highlights the kids program as warm and welcoming, with a balance of structured music learning and playful downtime, and describes it as a great first step for a parent and child to share time together and get introduced to fiddle tunes.
Last updated June 11, 2026.
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