So, there’s a tune workshop this coming weekend being put on by a well known fiddler. All are welcome, but I’m wondering if I will really be able to get much out of it as an aspiring flute player. Anyone have good or bad experiences in workshops or classes taught by players of a different instrument ?
IMO go for it, if its not prohibitively expensive. learning tunes from fiddlers is worth working on! at worst its a bit of networking. at best.. well the sky is the limit.!
Worst-case scenario is you switch to fiddle. 
Worst-case scenario is you switch to fiddle.
Well, luckily that didn’t happen !
and FiddlerWill I get your point about learning tunes from fiddlers and do it on a weekly basis.
This workshop was given by Jesse Smith, who mostly went over tunes from his latest recording. One highlight was that he spent some time at the beginning explaining how they went about finding the oldest scource material for their recordings. We listened to some cylinder recordings to hear the “lift” that certain players had in their music. Then we attempted to add some to our own 
OK, it will take a lot more than two hours on a Saturday to get there, but this workshop really gave me a lot of food for thought. Oh, and things to practice, got a lot of those too…
great! glad it was a success,
I just love it when you step up from the plateau to the next level. All of a sudden these things we/ you/Ive been working on for months and years just click. Its a great buzz to surmount something that ,at one time appeared almost insurmountable.
Its often just a little thing, or a workshop that clarifys something that was nearly settled but still a bit misty… just keep chipping away and slowly but surely 'the figure hidden in the wood 'comes to shine out in the light of day.