05/28/2026
Hey Friends !
We are just days away from the Kerrville Folk Festival Harmonica Workshop which happens from June 1st-June 3rd, 2026. We still have a few seats available for a few more students and you don’t want to miss this very special workshop this year with our two very talented visiting teachers, Mr. Jason Ricci and Mr. Hank Shreve!!!!!! Booking information is located at the end of this message. Signup and come join one of America’s most long-standing harmonica workshops!!
JASON RICCI
Check out Jason’s Website at https://www.jasonriccimusic.com/
Jason Ricci has been an internationally touring and multiple award-winning harmonica player, vocalist and teacher for the last 30 years.
As a teacher he has made over one thousand free instructional videos for YouTube over the last 20 years, he's taught at seminars for Jon Gindick, Hohner Harmonicas (USA and Germany), SPAH (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of Harmonica), The Acoustic Blues Workshop (Port Townsend Washington), Blues in The Schools (USA, Germany & Mexico) and many more workshops. Ricci also founded The Harmonica Collective Teaching Convention with Winslow Yerxa that has brought in the absolute top names in the harmonica world as instructors and performers for many years. Ricci continues to participate hundreds of public and private seminars as well as thousands of one on one lessons and continues to post a free instructional video on YouTube every Friday.
In addition, you don’t want to miss Jason’s performance at the Kennedy Outdoor Theater on May 31st beginning at 7:00pm. See the link https://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/KFF2026_ART-SCHEDULE-2-scaled.png
HANK SHREVE
Check out Hank’s website at https://www.hankshreveband.com/
Hank Shreve began playing harmonica at the age of 8 and has established himself as a major harmonica talent on the blues scene in the Pacific Northwest. Between the ages of 8 - 18, he picked up other instruments, such as Drums, Keyboards, Guitar, Dobro, Lap-Steel and Vocals.
Hank won the Northwest Harmonica Championship in 2008 and CBA’s Muddy Award for Best Harmonica in 2009 and 2013. Also, Hank won the 2021 Rooster Blues Award for Best Male Vocalist. Hank has performed at the Las Vegas Big Blues Bender, The Waterfront Blues Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, the Cognac Blues Passions Fest in France with Karen Lovely, and Seattle’s BumperShoot with Magic Dick and Lee Oskar.
In November 2018, Hank was a featured artist and teacher in the Jason Ricci/Winslow Yerxa Harmonica Collective, in New Orleans, along with John Nemeth and Rick Estrin.
Hank has shared the stage with Honeyboy Edwards, Smash Mouth, Merle Haggard, Norton Buffalo, Gregg Rolie, Marcia Ball, Sista Monica Parker, Amy Clawson & Pam Tillis, Terry Robb, Magic Dick, Lee Oskar, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Karen Lovely, Deanna Bogart, Roger Fisher (from Heart), Curtis Salgado, DK Stewart, Johnny Dyer, Lloyd Jones, Paul deLay, RJ Mischo, CJ Chenier, Aki Kumar, Jim Belushi and many other national and international acts.
Apart from being one of Eugene, Oregon's beloved musicians, Hank is also a music instructor. He currently teaches online classes through Music Masters in South Eugene. He teaches Harmonica, Drums, Guitar, Lap-Steel, Piano and Music Fundamentals. He also is a contributor to Tomlin Harmonica School, as well as Ronnie Shellist's Global Harmonica Summits.
Hank is endorsed by Hohner Harmonicas, Blows Me Away Productions, and Lone Wolf Blues Company
With the variety of music and teaching styles we are offering this year ensures that you not only will get the full harmonica experience but by attending the workshop will give you the ability to take away knowledge that you can apply for years to come to as an accomplished well rounded player.
ROB ROY PARNELL,Director
Check out Rob Roy’s website at https://www.facebook.com/robroy.parnell.77
Singer, songwriter, and performer, Rob Roy Parnell has been mixing rockin' blues, boogie woogie, R&B and soul for over forty years playing for audiences throughout the United States and abroad.
Parnell was born into a music family. His father played guitar and sang in vaudeville shows as a kid. His mom was an opera singer. Bob Wills was a family friend and had a great influence on Parnell’s desire to play music. As a young man he first played trumpet excelling as a jazz improvisationist receiving awards at jazz festivals for his solos in jazz performances. At age seventeen his brother Lee Roy www.leeroyparnell.com introduced Rob Roy Parnell to the harmonica. With the encouragement of his friend Jack Pearson (guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band), Parnell played harmonica in front of an audience live for the first time at the age of eighteen.
He remains busy touring, songwriting and session work in the studio. One of his songs “Oughta Know” is on Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark’s “ Blind, Cripple and Crazy” CD. He is very proud of this accomplishment from his mentor Delbert McClinton. He has been a repeat performer on the Grand Ole Opry.
For twenty-four years now, he has been part of the teaching staff at the Kerrville Folk Festival’s harmonica workshop serving as the musical director of the workshop.
In addition, Parnell has played with some of the harmonica greats including Kim Wilson, James Cotton, Sam Meyer, Norton Buffalo, Delbert McClinton, Gary Primich, Peter “Mad Cat” Ruth, Adam Gussow, Brendan Power, ,Joe Filisko, Eric Noden, Steve Baker, PT Gazell, James Conway, Ronnie Shellist, Brandon Bailey, Mitch Kashmar, Mickey Raphael, Jimmy Hall, Tom Ball, Jimi Lee, Nic Clark, Buddy Greene, Michael Rubin, Sonny Boy Terry, Dave Nevling and many others.
WORK SHOP INFORMATION
For more information and to sign up for the workshop go to
https://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.org/workshops/harmonica/
Members of the Society and Preservation of Harmonica please use the discount code of SPAH10 for a 10% discount.
The three-day workshop fee includes a free one of a kind Kerrville Folk Festival Harmonica Workshop T-Shirt (no two years are ever the same), free lunch, A free Hohner Harmonica. Players on the night of day 2 get to do a campfire performance with several guitar players from the festival and a live band performance on the final day at the Threadgill Theater!!
We look forward to seeing you all there at the Kerrville Folk Festival for the best workshop yet!
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Mission of the Kerrville Folk Festival Harmonica Workshop To provide a positive learning environment for teacher and student that engages all to learn, study and promote a broader understanding of the harmonica and to inspire all in becoming more passionate about becoming a better player and person....
