An opportunity for fingerstyle players of all levels of ability and accomplishment: an informal, intimate, hour-plus class with one of the finest fingerstyle players in the world. Fingerstyle techniques, chords and theory, tone and rhythm, scales, thumb placement, tunings, improvisation, practice routines, and more presented with kindness, patience, and easy laughter. Questions will be warmly received. Limited to ten participants. Bring your instrument. Class is at 11:00 AM on March 15, 2026, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, in advance of the 2:00 concert. The cost is just $30. A discounted class-plus-concert bundle is $40. More details and registration at the stage33live.com website. Read the press release.
• Registration will automatically close once the 10 slots have been filled.
• Registration will shut down at midnight the day before the class if it hasn’t hit capacity.
• The transaction fee is rolled into the registration cost.
• A Paypal account is not required.
• Hiroya gets all the money. We’re all volunteers. There are options to support Stage 33 Live with an additional $2 or $5 per ticket to help us pay the bills and maintain the gear, and from time to time even fund improvements.
• These options are optional — there’s no shame in not selecting one.
• After completing, a “success” page should pop up and you should get an email from Paypal. You should also get a confirmation email from us, but that one may take a day or two.
• The name you give will be on a list at the door. All you have to do is show up.
• We won’t sell your info to anybody. We won’t even add you to our secret email newsletter coterie unless you ask.
• There are no brick-and-mortar outlets to register. If you don’t have a credit or debit card or don’t do online transactions, that’s cool. Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com and we’ll work it out.
• Questions? Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com or text/voicemail 802-289-0148. Protip: We don’t have actual staff to answer the phone.
Fingerstyle Guitar Class with Hiroya Tsukamoto
BELLOWS FALLS — Internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will lead an intimate, informal masterclass for players of all levels of ability and accomplishment at 11:00 AM on March 15, 2026, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, in advance of his 2:00 concert. This workshop is strictly limited to ten participants; advance registration through the stage33live.com website is strongly recommended. Walk-ups will only be accepted if there’s still room.
Hiroya will demonstrate fingerstyle techniques, including chords and basic theory, breaking down elements such as tone and rhythm, explaining how to apply them to a practice routine. Wisdom on scales, thumb placement, tunings, improvisation, and more to help players improve and expand their talents will be presented with kindness and patience and easy laughter by one of the best fingerstyle players in the world. Questions will be warmly received.
The workshop starts at 11:00 AM on Sunday, March 15, and the cost is $30. A discounted class-plus-concert bundle is $40. This workshop is strictly limited to ten participants, so advance registration through the stage33live.com website is strongly recommended. Walk-ups will only be accepted if there’s still room. Bring your instrument.
Feel free to bring a lunch to eat after the class, or to pop out to a local restaurant before the concert.
Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Hiroya Tsukamoto received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the US. Since then he has been performing internationally including at the United Nations, the Blue Note in New York, and on Japanese National Television. He is a dizzyingly agile fingerpicker who chooses beauty over bombast. His concert performances are an eclectic, immersive, and mesmerizing impressionistic journey filled with earthy, organic soundscapes rich in subtle detail.
For more information about the concert, see stage33live.com/2026/03/hiroya-tsukamoto-2026/
Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com
Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be happening, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, WOOL-FM, Guilford Sound, and the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.
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