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Jamming at Camp – Your Opinions Wanted!

We often hear from you that “there’s not enough time at camp to do everything!” We offer more classes and feature more teachers than other camps—which means sometimes people can’t take all the classes they want to. Add talks, dance parties and kafana, and it makes for long days AND nights of music and dance, and sometimes people can’t do everything they want to.

But camp is an opportunity to do more than just the “scheduled” stuff—it’s where people get to make music together in a way most of us don’t get access to the rest of the year—with musicians at all different levels, from all different backgrounds, with different areas of interest and expertise, playing a universe of instruments. And so, not surprisingly, we’ve been asked by campers if there are ways to create more opportunities for jamming, and the board has asked the programming committee to take the lead in finding out ways that can happen.

So that’s why we’re writing to you, to give you a chance to let us know, before we make any changes: how would you want us to respond to the request for more opportunities to jam at camp? Your thoughts and ideas will help us create a response that reflects our community’s diverse perspectives: What options do we have? What is ripe for change? What could be changed? What should not be changed? Who would be involved?

Please use this Google form to share your answers and ideas. We’ll keep the survey open until the end of May 2017. The Program Committee will use your ideas to develop a response, and bring it to the board for their review. We will keep you updated as we move forward. Thank you!