Mark Shark is currently giving banjo lessons on site at Blvd Music. With over forty years of playing experience Mark Shark is a fine multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, teacher and now author. He has shared the stage with Jackson Browne, Jesse Ed Davis, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and John Trudell.

Pat Cloud

Pat Cloud has played professionally since 1968 and has been an instructor of the five-string banjo since 1971. He specializes in all finger-picking styles including bluegrass and melodic jazz improvisation. He is included in the 1988 Oak publication, "Masters of the Five-String Banjo" in which Tony Trishka states: "He is the first five-string player to achieve a wide-reaching command of the jazz vocabulary, and as such inhabit a rarefied world which he now shares with a select few." Pat has authored two books from Mel Bay, "The Key To Five String Banjo" and "Straight Ahead Jazz For Banjo." His teaching philosophy can be summed up as a combination of solid music fundamentals plus the most important element of just "having fun." He teaches intro to Five-String Banjo, effective practice techniques, chords (structure and application), basic to advanced fretboard theory, and beginning to advanced improvisation. A rare opportunity to study with a legend in the world of banjo.