Supported by the Walla Walla School District and several local and regional businesses and foundations, the Walla Walla Symphony brings rock and roll and blues musicians as teachers to Lincoln Alternative High School to lead courses like “Flying Wedges, Amps, Mikes, Cords and Chords,” “Drum Like There Was No Yesterday,” “Beethoven’s Most Famous Death Metal Tunes,”' and “Even James Brown Needs Trombones.”
The Pacific Northwest’s only “free’ rock n’roll camp will serve 100 teens, aged 12-18, and will include photography, journalism and new media components in addition to instrumental techniques. The camp will end with a celebration—student produced free public concert on Friday night in the first block of First Street in downtown Walla Walla.
For more information about the camp or if you’re interested in supporting the camp, please call Lacey Perry at 509-529-8020.
Special thanks to the following sponsors, supporters and instructors for the 2009 Rock n’ Roll Camp (listed in Rock n’ Roll order): the Hot Topic and the Hot Topics Foundation, Farmers Insurance, Joel Clark, J.D. Smith, Jordan Christiansen, Walla Walla School District, Anthony Barba, Patrick Kofler, Mike Hammond, Bjorn Rowberg, Walla Walla Blues Society, Phil Lynch, Blazing Guitars, John’s Wheatland Bakery, Stone Soup, Jim McGuin, Hot Poop, Hopeless Records, Trevor Larkin, Sony Records, Gary Winston, Glen Ayers, Erika Ingersoll, Nicoli Carrera, Sara Bru, Michael Wenberg and Pepsi Bottling Co. Walla Walla.