Summer Music Workshop 2010

Things your teacher never taught

This workshop is open to all ages.

The Justin Veatch Fund presents a two-day music seminar and workshop

August 18th and 19th
at
Briarcliff Manor High School Auditorium
 444 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor, New York

Professional singers, songwriters and musicians will lecture, discuss, demonstrate and collaborate with a select group of talented teens. The event will culminate
in a stage performance involving students and staff.

Tuition is $195 per student and attendance
will be limited to 50.

This program will not focus on teaching music or specific instruments, but rather things largely untaught in traditional public school music programs. Workshop panels will include song writing, music production, sound recording in the digital age, music facilitation through meditation and stage performance. Each student will have an opportunity to perform on an individual basis and be critiqued in a nurturing environment and later participate in an ensemble with members of the professional staff to create a performance to be staged at the end of the second day. The Stage performance will be open to the public.

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Good Old War Phildelphians Keith Goodwin, Dan Schwartz and Tim Arnold will release their self titled second album in June and are being featured on David Dye’s World Cafe on National Public Radio before they head out on their latest national tour.  At our workshop, the trio will perform some of their songs and “break down” the creative processes they use to achieve their well honed musical stories and harmonies.  They will also demonstrate and discuss vocal exercises they use to keep their voices in top shape.

Folk-pop artist Sloan Wainwright of the famous Wainwright musical dynasty brings workshop participants to the discovery that inside each of us lives a beautiful and unique instrument. In her vocal workshops Sloan shares her experience as a performer and, along with her students, explores the discovery of music and self-expression through the voice.

Since 1977 Jon Gailmor has been performing his music in schools, colleges, resorts, restaurants and folk clubs throughout the country. “Just Kidding”, Jon’s weekly radio show for kids and childish grownups, ran for 23 years on Vermont radio stations. Jon’s songwriting workshops are designed both to stimulate and exploit the innate creativity within us all.

Other “teachers” will include Moving Mountains founder Greg Dunn, singer/songwriters Jennifer Zulli and Brian Joyce of My Morning Radio and master of all instruments Anthony Mandel.

Through our initial work sponsoring a series of open mic nights we discovered an unfulfilled need for young performers to collaborate and grow through the performance experience. When Justin Veatch, a talented 17 year old song writer and performer died tragically in 2008 his family decided music would be a major part of his memorial.  The Veatch family created The Justin Veatch Fund, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that awards annual scholarships to graduating high school students planning study in the music fields. The Fund recognizes the teaching of music and arts as critical components in education and the goal of The Fund’s developing programs is to reach out to talented young performing artists and provide them with opportunities to collaborate with and be challenged by a network of like-minded peers and professionals.



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