Private Banjo Coach for actor, Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle).

Banjoist and Singer for Mayoral convention.Guitarist and Banjoist for the Kinesis Project.Banjoist for Elton John Tribute album featuring current pop stars.Hilary Hawke is a banjo player/multi-instrumentalist who performs, teaches and resides in Brooklyn, NY. My teaching philosophy is that we learn best when we're having a good time and are excited about the material, with a few technical exercises thrown in for good measure ! I cater my lessons to each student individually depending on what they're interested in, the aim being to enable their self-expression and deepen their connection to themselves/their music And if a student likes to sing and play an instrument, we can work with both elements. I also offer basic to intermediate music theory and sight-reading as part of these lessons, as desired. I love working with anyone who is excited to learn how to speak through their instrument, and incorporate material from different folk traditions from around the world, including songs from Georgia, Ukraine, Greece and songs in the Spanish language. She offers private lessons in voice, guitar, piano and accordion to people ages 3 to 122. She has been teaching children and adults privately and in classroom settings since 2015, as the music teacher at Pono Learning Center, in classes for toddlers at Kids at Work, as summer staff at Bread and Puppet Theater and as a guest instructor for the Jalopy Chorus at the Jalopy Theater and School of Music. When not performing her original music, Ali also works with various projects including the Crimson Ragdolls and Bread and Puppet Theater, and works as a music educator. Ali Dineen has been performing her original music and songs from the American folk tradition in New York and across the United States for the past several years, drawing upon music ranging from 1920s American jazz to Eastern European polyphony.

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