I recently discovered this extensive online festival and decided to take the plunge. https://fiddlehell.org/ Except for the workshops that focus on bowing technique, pretty much everything will work for mandolin. I doubt there will be tab, so I'm trying to ramp up my notation sightreading skills. Andy Statman and Baron Collins-Hill are also on the staff, teaching a few mandolin-specific workshops.
For $160 (less with a senior or student discount), you get access to nine session periods a day, with usually six workshop choices, a jam, and an instructor concert to choose from. To take full advantage of it, I think you really need to have an interest in many different non-classical types of world music. The website says that the courses "will cover Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun, Cape Breton, East European, Electric, Québécois, Gypsy Jazz, Irish, Jazz, Klezmer, Latin, Mexican, New Acoustic, New England, Old-Time Southern, Scandinavian, Scottish, Swing, Texas, and Western Swing styles. Historical and technical workshops are also on the program ...," but it doesn't look like any of those are covered in more than 1/4 of the 36 sessions. Since I have MADD (musical attention deficit disorder), this will work fine for me. My Zoom fatigue limits will definitely be tested, though, as will my elbow braces.
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