3rd Saturday Beginner/Intermediate Bluegrass Jam (BIBGJS)

About this event

NOTE WELL: The Beginner/Intermediate Bluegrass Jam (BIBGJS) IS NOW HELD ON THE 1st and 3rd SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH.

Our Current BIBGJS song book is dated April 17, 2026. IT IS COMPLETELY NEW - HAS 107 BLUEGRASS SONGS AND A LINK TO A YOUTTUBE EXAMPLE OF 105 OF THEM. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS ALL NEW SONGBOOK AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://www.blackroseacoustic.org/s/20260416-BIBGJSSongbook-V30a-FINALRevised.pdf

Join us for a Beginner/Intermediate Bluegrass Jam (BIBGJS jam) led by Robin B. and Charlie S. this Saturday morning from 10 AM to noon at Calvary United Methodist Church. These jams are now held the 1st & 3rd Saturday of each month.

These BIBGJS jams are a great introduction to bluegrass-style jamming for all levels of pickers and singers. If you know the basic chords of G-C-D on your acoustic instrument and want to learn how to play music with others, this is the jam for you. This jam, stylistically, is bluegrass; if you have questions about what that implies, please feel free to ask!

All levels of players are welcome, but the jam is geared toward beginners and intermediate players. Our goal is to get you to lead songs and play basic solos, We use the BIBGJS songbook that can be downloaded from the Black Rose Website (see below) or the Parking Lot Pickers book (Amazon) or you can bring your own sheet music to pass around (25 copies) Our songs are mostly 2-3 chord bluegrass or country-ish songs that should be easy to play and recognizable to most people.

Some details about BIBGJS jams:

• BIBJS jams are from 10AM to noon.

• BIBGJS uses the Black Rose BIBGJS songbook. The current version (Version 3.0a) is available for download at https://www.blackroseacoustic.org/songbooks

• The BIBGJS jam now has a permanent home at Calvary United Methodist Church on Austin Bluffs just east of Academy. Address : 4210 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO 80918

• Parking is free, but come early to get close parking (and get a good seat!)

• You may want to bring a music stand and a friend!

• We ask for a donation at the time of the jam to compensate Calvary Church for the use of their room.

• It is a large room with extra space in adjacent rooms to have break-out sessions.

Hope to see you there! JD Droddy

P.S. Other jam details, are consistent for all our Black Rose jams:

• Please be careful to note the location and time of each jam. Check our jam page for the latest schedule. Check our locations page for aerial maps, with links to Google Maps.

• Most jam formats have songbooks available to download from our website.

P.P.S. Are you wondering if you should be a Black Rose member if you only come to Black Rose jams and not the Friday concerts? (Members get a great discount at concerts!) If your finances are tight, we appreciate your monetary donations at the jams you attend. On the other hand, if you want to provide steady and continuous support of all our community-focused events, consider our sustaining membership option (see https://www.blackroseacoustic.org/membership ) And thank you, however you choose to support the Black Rose!

From Black Rose Acoustic Society