For the sixth year, Cowan Community Action Group, Inc., through Cowan Creek Mountain Music School brings you virtual classes to keep you progressing in fiddle, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, and Appalachian ballad singing. Instructors feature master musicians from across the Appalachian region and beyond including Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Earl White, Scott Rucker, Andrew Duckworth, and Evelyn Tackett. Each class meets for one hour each week for 8 weeks in January and February via Zoom.

Tickets are live now. Standard tuition is $160 and scholarships available. Register today at cowancreekmusic.org/programs/winter-cowan-2026/ .

What is it like to take an online course with Cowan? Sign up to take free 20 min sessions with any of the Winter Cowan Faculty on December 7th, starting at 1 p.m.! Register at tinyurl.com/cowanpickinparty.