The camp ended with a community performance featuring all participants. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

By Derek Cornet

new skills

CAMP delivers five-day music program for tri-community youth

Jul 19, 2024 | 10:59 AM

Participants of the Community Arts Mentorship Program’s (CAMP) Youth Music Camp showcased to family and friends on Thursday everything they had learned in the five days the camp ran.

“We started programming on Sunday and we just got to know the kids, we got to know where their skill level was at and what they wanted to accomplish in the next five days,” said CAMP managing director LJ Kimbley.

“We started songwriting with them and they started going into their breakout sessions with their individual instructors. They worked really hard. They wrote an original song, they did a music video and went into the recording studio and they practiced really hard for their live performance.”

Throughout the week, participants were able to learn a variety of musical skills at Senator Myles Venne School such as keyboard, piano, guitar, percussion, drums, vocals, songwriting, ukelele and fiddle.

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CAMP has been offering the summer programming for tri-community youth for several years now. The program is designed for students between Grades 5 and 12.

“These kids were busy and they worked so hard,” Kimbley said.

“I had faith in them because they could do it, but the amount of work the students and teachers put in in the last five days is just incredible and I am so proud of them.”

More than four dozen family and friends attended the community performance on Thursday. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

On Thursday, a community performance and feast was held so the youth could demonstrate what they learned. It was attended by 53 community members, which Kimbley noted was good to see.

One of the participants in the camp was Kael Ratt, who has been playing guitar for three years. He wanted to learn new skills, and he developed the power cords and special effects for the song they wrote called In the City.

“It was awesome seeing all these new kids and seeing them do what they love. They were learning and it was fun. It’s awesome to see they are so interested in music because you don’t really see that here anymore,” Ratt said.

“I ended up having one of my best moments this summer already and I am obviously going to miss it. I am going to miss it a lot. LJ is an amazing instructor and all of the other instructors are awesome.”

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derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com