Feb 6: Beautiful Fingerstyle Guitar Lullabies for Parents, Grandparents, Uncles and Aunts! with Mark Hanson

Saturday, February 6, 2027

11am – 1pm

Dusty Strings 3406 Fremont Ave N

Maximum Enrollment: 16

Registration & Refund Deadline: Wednesday, February 3, 2027

Grammy winner Mark Hanson plays regularly in the neonatal ICU in Portland for the preemies. This workshop presents a number of his beautiful guitar solos aimed directly at babies and youngsters whose neural pathways are developing through hearing good music. Designed for all fingerstyle players who play for children — of all ages! 

Skills Needed: Lower intermediate fingerstylist and up

What to Bring: Guitar in standard tuning at A-440. Recording device— for your personal use only — no social media postings!

Teacher: Longtime Dusty Strings workshop presenter, Mark Hanson, is a Grammy winning fingerstyle guitarist, author, and educator who has authored over two dozen guitar instruction manuals. Mark has shared the stage with many of the greats in the guitar world (John Renbourn, Jerry Garcia, Laurence Juber, Tommy Emmanuel, and more) and played for President Obama in San Francisco in 2009. He won a Grammy in 2005 for his contributions to the Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar album. He was a columnist at Frets magazine in the '80s.

*Most classes and workshops are geared towards late-teens and adults. Younger learners will benefit most starting with private lessons.

If you have any questions about group classes, or the school in general, don’t hesitate to contact us at (206) 634-1662 or music@dustystrings.com.