Got drums? If you’re worrying about how to ferry your gear back and forth during camp week – er, BART? – fret no more. Bring a drum rug and your drum kit on audition day, Aug. 2, and you’re welcome to store them at the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop camp site for the [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 12, 2009
The Audition Lowdown
It’s just three short weeks till the 2009 Lafayette Summer Music Workshop. Mark your calendars now! Placement auditions are slated for Sunday, August 2 from 10 a.m. till late afternoon. Audition time slots should be landing in your e-mail inbox shortly. Here’s what else you need to know:
Auditions are held at Stanley Middle School, [...]
July 12, 2009
Anthony Coleman Bio
Trumpeter Anthony Coleman has been a favorite with Lafayette Summer Music kids since his very first summer, when he arrived as a “teaching fellow,” after his second year at the University of the Pacific’s prestigious Brubeck Institute. It wasn’t just his infectious enthusiasm and incredible musicality that drew such raves from the Lafayette camp [...]
July 12, 2009
Mimi Fox Bio
Internationally recognized jazz guitarist and recording artist Mimi Fox has reaped so many honors over her career, one scarcely knows where to start. Downbeat Magazine’s international critics polls accorded her its highest honors six years running, and she has performed with some of the leading jazz musicians of her day, including Charlie Byrd, Branford [...]
July 12, 2009
Colin Wenhardt Bio
Colin Wenhardt isn’t just an extraordinary tenor saxman and Lafayette jazz camper favorite – they particularly love his whimsical music choices. “Cats and Kittens,” anyone? Wenhardt has spent the last 34 years playing every sax, from sopranino to bari, as well as piccolo, flute and alto flute, clarinet and bass clarinet in [...]
July 3, 2009
Pictures from 2008 LafSMW
Click here to see pictures from the 2008 session, hosted on the Flickr website.
