DOBRO ENTHUSIASTS, RESONATOR PLAYERS, SLIDE PRACTITIONERS, GUITARISTS, STUDENTS, AND TRAVELERS OF ALL AGES, SKILL LEVELS, AND INTERESTS ARE WELCOME!

ResoSummit 2023 is an event for players and music-lovers of all ages, levels, interests, and tastes! Whether you are a master player, a beginner, or just an enthusiastic fan, our four-day programs offer activities and workshops for you. Our environment is non-competitive and is strictly about immersing oneself in the joys of music and our lovely surroundings!

Your Registration Includes:

  • Exclusive private performances every evening by Rob Ickes and members of the all-star faculty
  • Daily workshops and master classes led by our all-star Faculty
  • Intimate workshops of all levels: from true beginner to very advanced
  • One-on-one mentor sessions with the Faculty
  • Luthiers Luthiers Luthiers
  • Camper open mics
  • Concerts at night at Station Inn
  • Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners every day
  • Located in the heart of Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee

An Invitation from Rob Ickes

We are thrilled to announce that Reso Summit 2023 will be held from November 2-5, 2023, at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville. This annual celebration of the resonator guitar brings together some of the most talented players and luthiers from around the world, and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of the best yet!

We’ve got an incredible lineup of players and performers scheduled for Reso Summit 2023, including Cindy Cashdollar, Billy Cardine, Abbie Gardner, Jimmy Heffernan, Bobby Ingano, Jay Starling, and Mike Witcher. In addition, we are excited to welcome two special guests this year: the amazing Sierra Hull and Justin Moses. Both Sierra and Justin are incredibly talented musicians, and we are honored to have them join us. And hey, our pal Trey Hensley will be there too!

Reso Summit is also a chance to learn from the best, and we are thrilled to have two of the most talented luthiers in the business joining us this year: Paul Beard and Byrl Murdock. Paul and Byrl are experts in their craft and will be sharing their knowledge with attendees throughout the event.

Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, Reso Summit 2023 is an incredible opportunity to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the resonator guitar. So don’t miss out on this unforgettable four-day event! Mark your calendars now and join us in Nashville for Reso Summit 2023.

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Artists

Rob Ickes

Sierra Hull

Trey Hensley

Cindy Cashdollar

Billy Cardine

Abbie Gardner

Jimmy Heffernan

Justin Moses

Bobby Ingano

Jay Starling

Paul Beard

Byrl Murdock

Schedule

The Camp Schedule is subject to change. You will be provided with an updated schedule upon check-in. Also, we will post the daily schedule in case there are last-minute changes.

Thursday November 02

  • 1:00pm

    Rob Ickes ResoSummit 2023 Check In

  • 3:30pm – 5:00pm

    Welcoming Orientation and Q&A with Rob and all the instructors

  • 5:30pm – 6:30pm

    Dinner

  • 7:00pm

    Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley Concert

  • 8:30pm

    Open Mic and Jamming

Friday November 03

  • 7:30 – 8:30am

    Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 10:30am

    Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley “Playing in a Duo” Master Class

  • 10:45 – 11:45am

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 12:00 – 1:00pm

    Lunch

  • 12:30 – 2:00pm

    Mentor Sessions- one on one time with the Faculty!

  • 2:15 – 3:30pm

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 3:45 – 5:00pm

    Jimmy Heffernan “Intro to Pedal Steel” Masterclass

  • 5:00 – 5:30pm

    Free Time or Jam

  • 5:30 – 6:30pm

    Dinner

  • 8:00pm

    Evening Concert: Reso-Summit Spectacular Featuring – Billy Cardine & Bobby Ingano – Abbie Gardner & Cindy Cashdollar

Saturday November 04

  • 7:30 – 8:30am

    Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 10:30am

    Bobby Ingano and Billy Cardine: “Dobro in Hawaii”

  • 10:45 – 11:45am

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 12:00 – 1:00pm

    Lunch

  • 12:30 – 2:00pm

    Mentor Sessions one on one time w the Faculty

  • 2:15 – 3:15pm

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 3:30 – 4:30pm

    Signing Session- bring your stuff! Photos and singing with the Faculty!

  • 4:30 – 5:30pm

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 5:30 – 6:30pm

    Dinner

  • 7:00pm

    Faculty Concert

  • 9:00pm

    Open Mic and Jamming

Sunday November 05

  • 7:30 – 8:30am

    Breakfast

  • 9:00 – 10:30am

    Compass Recording Studio class (broken into two groups)

  • 10:45 – 11:45am

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) “How Did You Do That?” Ask the Faculty questions about what they played last night! – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 12:00 – 1:00pm

    Lunch

  • 12:30 – 2:00pm

    Mentor Sessions

  • 2:15 – 3:15pm

    Breakout Classes (Your Choice) – Abbie Gardner – Billy Cardine – Bobby Ingano – Cindy Cashdollar – Jay Starling – Jimmy Hefferman – Rob Ickes

  • 3:30 – 4:15pm

    Group and Individual Photos

  • 4:30 – 5:30pm

    Justin Moses and Sierra Hull Masterclass/Q&A

  • 5:30 – 6:30pm

    Dinner

  • 7:00pm

    Justin Moses and Sierra Hull Concert

  • 9:00pm

    Open Mic and Jamming

Monday November 06

  • Goodbye Everyone!

And take a look at the many topics our All Star Faculty will be exploring with you during the 4 days and nights! Topics will be slotted in to class times as we get closer to the event.

Rob Ickes:
• Blues Up Your Dobro Playing!-we’ll start by examining Josh Graves blues style and expand from there. What makes the Blues so great, and how you can inject it into your playing!
• Playing in a Duo (With Trey Hensley) – Putting it all together! Creating great solos, rhythm techniques, backing up a singer, playing and singing at the same time. We’ll look at everything that goes into a great duo performance. All attendee
• Solo Dobro Arrangements- Rob will demonstrate his approach to arranging songs for solo Dobro performance. We’ll look at how to find melodies, and combine them with bass and chordal notes to create a beautiful piece of music with just you and your Dobro.
• Mastering the Fretboard- Rob shows you how learning scales in many different positions can improve your playing and help you easily find the right note at the right time.
• The Inner Game of Dobro- Tired of playing well in your practice room, then falling apart when you get to the jam session or gig? We’ll cover a lot of ground in this class including thoughts on stage fright, trying too hard, developing good habits, practice routines, improving technique, creativity, perfectionism, and much more.
• Bluegrass Album Band Vol. 3-Rob will take you on an audio tour of his favorite Bluegrass Album Band recording and discuss what makes this such a classic album.
• Rhythm techniques-beginner and advanced classes, Rob will discuss his unique approach to playing rhythm. We will examine right and left hand techniques, how to approach the minor chord, and other more complex chords. We’ll also discuss Using both hands to mute notes, how to play rhythm while singing and much much more.

Compass Studios Recording Workshop-we will walk to nearby Compass Studios and answer all your questions about recording the Dobro with IBMA Award Winning Engineer, Ben Surrat. Topics will include using headphones, mic choices and mic placement, reverbs and other effects. Home studio enthusiasts will love this class! (All Levels)

Abbie Gardner:

• Advanced Warmup Routine
• Solo Reso Arrangements – “hot seat” coaching.
• How to practice (a motor learning approach).
• Down the Mountain – learn an open D tuning blues song.
• Singing & Playing at the same time.
• Music Theory for Dobro.
• Prevention and treatment of dobro injuries.

Jimmy Heffernan:
• Bakersfield Country: Learn the West Coast sounds of incredible guitar players like Grady Martin and Roy Nichols that translate very well to the Dobro.
• Intro to playing swing on the Dobro.
• Must know licks: A collection of licks from Josh, Jerry, Rob, and Mike, etc. And we’ll work through how to use them in songs we all play.
• Learn Rob’s intro to BlueHighway’s “through the window of a train”: Rob’s groundbreaking intro to this song contains some absolutely fabulous licks that you can use everywhere.
• Go-to licks over a C chord: Dramatically expand your inventory of licks you can use either in the key of C or over a C chord in any key. I’ll be using the Bill Monroe song “Toy Heart” in the key of C to illustrate.
• Playing backup: 80% of all the Dobro playing you’ll ever do is back up. I’ll clue you in on some dos and don’ts and give you some real ammunition to use. I’ll be using backup tracks with a vocalist to help illustrate.

Cindy Cashdollar:

• Move Smooth: Getting the left & right hand working together for smooth moves and clean playing. Proper bar & fingerpick use, clean movement between chords, damping rhythm, single-note technique.
• Chord Exploration & Excavation: 7ths, 9ths, minors, how to find & how to use.
• I Got The Blues: Bass runs, blues turnarounds, riffs, and more.
• Swing That Thing: Some fun with G6th tuning.
• D Is For De-Tune: Exploring the different sound & songs of open D tuning.
• With Bobby Ingano: Hank Williams And Hawaii: The history, tunings & different music genres of the steel guitar.

Jay Starling:

• Seldom Scene songs/ Mike Auldridge Stylings.
• Building a solo! Targeting chord tones and using rhythm.
• Rhythm/comping and backing a singer.
• Music Theory.
• Q&A! Jamming, prepping for the stage, warming up, calming the mind.
• Learn some standards always called in a pick!
• Billy Cardine:
• How to learn to transcribe Music (Dobro players, vocalists, and other instrumentalists) from recordings…including the use of tools…computer, notation software, etc.
• Dobro around the world…Learn one lick/phrase from each destination around the world.
• Miles Davis and comfortably Dobro’able Jazz Phrasing.
• Harmonics, Chimes, Squeaks, and Squawks: a range of sounds from the Dobro, as applied to classic tunes.
• Rhythm Boot Camp: Learn to provide a fun and helpful rhythm in all settings, duets, trios, quartets, etc., as well as with drums.
• Rig Breakdown/Live Performance discussion: gear, pedals, signal processing, EQ’ing…setting up for success on the stage. If time permits, Studio Session preparation and performance.

Bobby Ingano:

• How to play “Aloha Oe,” which is one of the most recognizable songs the world over.
• How to achieve the sweetest tone possible on the Steel Guitar.
• Muting the strings.
• How to play the song that every beginner starts with, which is “Hene Hene Koaka.”
• Hawaiian vamps or turn-arounds, which are played between the verses on nearly all Hawaiian songs.

PLUS Jimmy Heffernan Master Class:

• Intro to the pedal steel guitar: The pedal steel guitar is the not too distant cousin of the Dobro. Pedal steel came into country music in 1954 and quickly became the sound of the late 50s, 60s, and 90s country music.I don’t think there’s a Dobro player out there who hasn’t wondered about playing pedal steel someday.This class will take some of the mystery out of the steel guitar. I will go through how the pedal steel is similar to the Dobro as well as how it produces that unique sound that only a pedal steel can accomplish.

Scarritt Bennett Center

Scarritt Bennett Center is located in the historic midtown area, right off Music Row and next to Vanderbilt University. The campus, which is listed on the National Historic Registry, is within walking distance of dozens of restaurants, music venues, and famous Nashville attractions. The campus is also a 5-minute walk to a bus stop, easily accessible via a cab/Lyft/Uber, a 5-minute drive from downtown Nashville, and a 15-minute drive from the Nashville International Airport.

Recommended Accommodations:

  • There are accommodations available at Scarritt Bennett Center for Reso Summit Slide Fest. The accommodations, however, are for a retreat center and there is no television, room service, etc available. If you have any questions you can call the Welcome Center at (615) 340-7469, or email at reservations@scarrittbennett.org. Please use the code Dreamcatcher2023 to get a discount on your booking.

    • Prices start at $80.00 (before taxes) for a single twin bedroom with a shared restroom. However, they do offer different types of rooms so please inquire about availability with the booking staff.

    • Please be sure to tell the staff at the time of booking if you need a 1st-floor room, since they do not have elevators in the sleeping buildings.

    • Additionally, Please have your Credit card handy as the first’s night’s deposit will be required at the time of booking.

Of course, you are welcome to stay wherever you like in Nashville as well!

Travel Directions

Scarritt Bennett Center

Address
1027 18th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212

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Pricing and Registration

Register by September 3rd for 10% off!!

Please join Rob’s Facebook group just for people attending Reso Summit. We will be using that to post lots of information over the months to come and it’s a great place for you all to share info, video, etc. You will get a link to join the group on your receipt.

Registration

  • Registration
    1,299

    Your registration will include all performances, workshops, concerts, musical activities, goody bags, and all meals at Scarritt Bennett – it does not, however, include accommodations. We have procured discounted rates at Scarritt Bennett, but you will need to make your own arrangements.

    If you have a loved one joining you in Nashville, we have a meal plan available for an additional $399 at checkout.

What's Included

  • All workshops, concerts, activities, and entertainment for 4 days and nights
  • Station Inn concerts
  • One-on-one mentor sessions with our faculty
  • Breakfasts, Lunches, and Dinners
  • Parking at Scarritt Bennett
  • Wi-Fi

What's Not Included

  • Accommodations
  • Transportation to Nashville
  • Alcohol and snacks
  • Personal musical gear

Recommended Accommodations

  • There are accommodations available at Scarritt Bennett Center for Reso Summit Slide Fest. The accommodations, however, are for a retreat center and there is no television, room service, etc available. If you have any questions you can call the Welcome Center at (615) 340-7469, or email at reservations@scarrittbennett.org. Please use the code Dreamcatcher2023 to get a discount on your booking.
    • Prices start at $80.00 (before taxes) for a single twin bedroom with a shared restroom. However, they do offer different types of rooms so please inquire about availability with the booking staff.
    • Please be sure to tell the staff at the time of booking if you need a 1st-floor room, since they do not have elevators in the sleeping buildings.
    • Additionally, Please have your Credit card handy as the first’s night’s deposit will be required at the time of booking.

Of course, you are welcome to stay wherever you like in Nashville as well!

Pricing and Registration Policy

  • Registration & Payments
    • All rates are per-person, unless stated otherwise.
    • All prices subject to change. Prior sales excluded. Dreamcatcher Events reserves the right to change any price, package or offering at any time without prior notice.
    • All rates are subject to 9.9% surcharge, which includes all local, state, and occupancy taxes.
  • Installment Payment Plan – Upon checkout, you have the option to pay in full or one 50% installment.
    • Upon registration, a non-refundable deposit of 50% of the total purchase amount is charged to your credit card.
    • The remaining balance will be automatically charged to the credit card on file on September 1, 2023.
  • Cancellations
    • All payments and deposits are final and non-refundable unless you enroll in the Active Cancellation Insurance program. The Active Cancellation Insurance program is a program that will enable you to receive a full refund should you cancel your registration for any reason as long as you file your claim no less than 48 hours before the event.
    • To enroll in this program, you can purchase the Insurance at check out. The cost to consumers is 20% of the cart total after any discounts have been applied. It will clearly spell out the amount in dollars it will cost at the time of checkout.
  • Dreamcatcher Events LLC reserves the right to re-schedule any event if there should be an “Act of God,” pandemic, natural disaster, or any other circumstance which makes an event impossible to hold. In this circumstance, Dreamcatcher may issue full financial credit in the amount paid to all registrants who have paid. These “Credited” funds may be used solely for the specific event to be rescheduled. The financial credit shall last two years from the dates of postponement. Registration refunds will not be distributed in the event that an event has to be rescheduled due to circumstances beyond Dreamcatcher’s control. This also applies to any registrant who may not be able to attend an event due to Covid and/or Force Measure.

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