GRAMMY Camp Accepting Applications, Offering Deadline Extension

The GRAMMY Foundation is expanding to the East Coast to reach a broader range of high school students, bringing its camp to New York City in addition to Los Angeles. Applications are currently online at www.grammyintheschools.com and the deadline is March 31. Financial aid is available and approximately 70 percent of GRAMMY Camp participants who have applied for financial aid have received assistance. Students are able to apply to either or both sessions of GRAMMY Camp, and there is discounted tuition for participation in both sessions. This program is supported in part by Best Buy, Converse, and the Hot Topic Foundation. Applications for paid positions as GRAMMY Camp counselors for young people ages 21–25 are also available online at www.grammyintheschools.com.

"I would encourage any U.S. high school student interested in exploring a career in the music industry — whether as a performer, a producer, a songwriter, a journalist, an engineer or a promoter — to apply to one or both of our GRAMMY Camps," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation.

GRAMMY Camp L.A.: July 9–18, 2011
The program offers selected high school students an interactive 10-day residential summer music experience. Focusing on all aspects of commercial music, this unique opportunity provides instruction by industry professionals in an immersive creative environment with cutting-edge technology in professional facilities. The program offers six music career tracks: Audio Engineering; Concert Promotion/Production; Electronic Music Production; Music Journalism; Songwriting; and a performance track for Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard, Vocal, and Winds & Strings. All tracks culminate in media projects, CD recordings and/or showcase performances. GRAMMY Camp L.A. will be held at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and other professional venues throughout Los Angeles.

GRAMMY Camp N.Y.: Aug. 2–8, 2011
GRAMMY Camp N.Y. is seven-day residential program for high school students hosted in New York at Converse Rubber Tracks studio, the new state-of-the-art recording studio Converse will open in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2011. It offers campers the opportunity to work in integrated industry teams consisting of three fields: Music Business & Production; Singer/Songwriter, and Performance — Instrumental Or Vocal. This real-world, hands-on environment will involve an in-depth look at the entire creative process from the first spark of original material through the promotion of a finished product, and will culminate in a launch party at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.

Although the deadline is March 31, interested students can complete the online application by 3.31 and contact grammycamp@grammy.com for an extension to submit the full application.

Financial assistance is available to qualified applicants. For details see below and interested teens can visit www.grammyintheschools.com to apply. Please let me know if you have any questions.