Orville Johnson

Dobro, Guitar, Lap Steel, Mandolin, Weissenborn

Orville is a nationally acclaimed player and teacher of lap-style dobro. He also teaches fingerpicking, flatpicking, and bottleneck slide styles on acoustic guitar, covering many roots music genres. He’s available for consultations on recording, arranging, singing, and music theory.

Orville was born and raised in the southern Illinois heartland. He is a singer, instrumentalist, record producer, songwriter, session player, teacher, and, above all, an instinctive and sensitive musician. As his entry in the Encyclopedia of Northwest Music (Sasquatch Press 1999) states, Orville “has become a vital figure on the NW music scene in the 30-some years he’s lived here, appearing on over 400 CDs, movie and TV soundtracks, and hosting a roots music radio show.”Orville is known as a patient and insightful teacher of music and has taught at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, International Guitar Seminar, Port Townsend Blues Week, Euro-Blues Workshop, and many others.

Orville's teaching style is based on helping students accomplish their goals, developing an approach that fits their own ways of learning, adding technique and repertoire, and, ultimately, bringing them to a point at which they can teach themselves. Knowledge is power.

Ages: Adults
Levels: All
Specialties: Blues, bluegrass, slide guitar, recording, arranging, music theory
Availability: Tuesday mornings, afternoons, and evenings
Online/In-Person: Online only
Rates: $55 for 30 min
Website: orvillejohnson.com

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