At Jazz Camp West, one of the highlights is always hearing the All-Campus Interfaith Gospel Choir perform on the last night of camp. Well, if you’ve ever been in the choir, you know how amazing and uplifting it is not matter what you believe in. Now you don’t have to wait until next year to...
A Message From Jazz Camp’s Artistic Director, Madeline Eastman Jazz Camp Faculty Artist Spotlight This week we’d like to highlight this year’s Vocal Intensive Instructor, the great jazz vocalist Anita Wardell. Bebop pioneer, Mark Murphy, proclaimed Anita, “a gift from Australia”, adding “What hits me, is how expressive her ballad singing is. Then she has...
A Message From Jazz Camp’s Artistic Director, Madeline Eastman Jazz Camp Faculty Artist Spotlight This week we’d like to highlight this year’s Afro-Cuban Dance Instructor, Silfredo La O Vigo. Silfredo La O Vigo is a professional dancer in the Afro-Cuban and Haitian tradition, as well as popular Latin and modern dance. He is a graduate...
Camp is just 2.5 weeks away! For those curious about what camp life looks like, here’s a little video with snippets of what goes on at camp: classes in the woods, practicing under tall redwoods, spontaneous salsa dancing on the deck, percussion classes, dance classes, ensemble classes, vocal classes, big band, blues classes, ping-pong, people...
How can you not be excited about such a fantastic line-up of talent we have coming this year (and every year with a different mix each time!): JAZZ CAMP WEST June 25 – July 2 YMCA Camp Jones Gulch- La Honda, No. CA MUSIC DIRECTOR: Madeline Eastman ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Allison Miller VOCAL INTENSIVE: Anita...
