Like a musical sherpa, Bagaduce Music offers ‘Guided Jams’
Weekly events are free and open to all. Their history is recorded on cedar shingles.
April 14, 2026
By staff
BLUE HILL—Ever wanted to jam with people but were afraid too afraid to ask?
Bagaduce Music has found the answer, with it’s weekly “Guided Jam” session where musicians of all levels of expertise join together to play music.
The event is free to all, and welcomes anyone with a stringed instrument. Special guests like musicians Molly and Elsie Gawler, Benjamin Foss, or Bagaduce Music executive director Bennett Konesni lead the sessions.
Jam leaders walk musicians through their individual parts of the various rhytms and melodies, eventually putting it all together into song.
At each session, attendees write down on a wooden shingle the names of the songs they played, along with its chord progressions.
In the video above, participants on March 11 play “The Moon and Seven Stars,” an 18th century jig. In the video below, Konesni explains the growing archive of cedar shingles on which each evening’s songs are inscribed.
Guided jams are held at Bagaduce Music in Blue Hill on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Anyone can just show up and join the music making.
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