We are pleased to inform you about our all-city band camp!
This Summer, The MusicianShip is offering a six-week band camp to students between the ages of 14 and 21. We are excited to announce that we will be a Summer Youth Employment Host, which means that DC residents between the ages of 14 and 21 will have an opportunity to get paid for their participation. Student participants will:
Our camp will take place at Woodrow Wilson High School, located at 3950 Chesapeake Street, Washington, DC 20016. This beautiful facility is metro accessible!
The six week camp will begin on July 1st and be held Monday-Friday from 9:00am - 1:00pm. The camp ends on Friday, August 9.
Camp participants are required to pay $100 that will fund practice/performance attire and performance bags.
Click here to register!
NOTE: We have a limited number of seats in this year's camp. By registering for our camp online, you are registering to audition for our camp. We will not be able to accept every student, so the earlier you schedule your audition, the better. Students will not be selected solely on their musical proficiency. Students will be selected based on character and our instrumentation needs. Students must have access to their own instruments, with the exception of percussionists. Students will be allowed to leave rented or leased instruments at the camp location.
What is our camp all about?
We are striving to usher in fresh and effective solutions to curb the current music education drought. One element of our initiative is The MusicianShip Marching Band Camp. This camp was created to engage and enrich young people in musically essential areas like sight reading, technical proficiency and performance execution. Our fun, yet structured, camp is for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 and will expose students to a higher-tier musical experience, similar to that of a university marching band.
Children, when idle and uninvolved, are becoming increasingly susceptible to the harms of drugs, gangs, and violence. Our program will minimize their down time and provide a disciplined environment that fosters positive peer relationships. The MusicianShip Marching Band will encompass brass instruments (tuba, trombone, baritone, mellophone, trumpet), woodwind instruments (piccolo, clarinets, saxophones), and a complete marching percussion line (snare, tonal bass drums, cymbals, Quints, tenors). Our young people need to be engaged and active in something other than video games. They need a fun experience that is also physically and mentally challenging. The rigor of a show-style marching program will force them to be physically fit and mentally prepared.
High school graduates are not aiming to attend college, often times because they lack money. There are thousands of music scholarships available to qualified students each year. We want to maximize the number of scholarship opportunities our students receive by doing three things.
Several college band directors have agreed to conduct scholarship auditions for interested high school juniors and seniors. They believe in our program, and fully support us because they know and trust the people involved. Students will learn in this camp, but they will also have fun, performing at holiday parades, professional sporting events, and other community events. We hope that you will join us in our endeavor to enhance marching band programs in DC.
We are currently recruiting musician and mentor volunteers. Please contact us for more information about The MusicianShip Marching Band and click here to register
This Summer, The MusicianShip is offering a six-week band camp to students between the ages of 14 and 21. We are excited to announce that we will be a Summer Youth Employment Host, which means that DC residents between the ages of 14 and 21 will have an opportunity to get paid for their participation. Student participants will:
- receive top-notch instruction from some of the best music educators in the area
- be provided with opportunities to audition for music scholarships to colleges and universities
- have constructive mentor interaction with some of our area's brightest music scholars
- be encouraged to form positive peer relationships with students from the DC metropolitan area
- have an opportunity to perform at several local parades and community events
- learn from music and educational panels, encouraging students’ pursuit of higher education and stressing the importance of good grades
Our camp will take place at Woodrow Wilson High School, located at 3950 Chesapeake Street, Washington, DC 20016. This beautiful facility is metro accessible!
The six week camp will begin on July 1st and be held Monday-Friday from 9:00am - 1:00pm. The camp ends on Friday, August 9.
Camp participants are required to pay $100 that will fund practice/performance attire and performance bags.
Click here to register!
NOTE: We have a limited number of seats in this year's camp. By registering for our camp online, you are registering to audition for our camp. We will not be able to accept every student, so the earlier you schedule your audition, the better. Students will not be selected solely on their musical proficiency. Students will be selected based on character and our instrumentation needs. Students must have access to their own instruments, with the exception of percussionists. Students will be allowed to leave rented or leased instruments at the camp location.
What is our camp all about?
We are striving to usher in fresh and effective solutions to curb the current music education drought. One element of our initiative is The MusicianShip Marching Band Camp. This camp was created to engage and enrich young people in musically essential areas like sight reading, technical proficiency and performance execution. Our fun, yet structured, camp is for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 and will expose students to a higher-tier musical experience, similar to that of a university marching band.
Children, when idle and uninvolved, are becoming increasingly susceptible to the harms of drugs, gangs, and violence. Our program will minimize their down time and provide a disciplined environment that fosters positive peer relationships. The MusicianShip Marching Band will encompass brass instruments (tuba, trombone, baritone, mellophone, trumpet), woodwind instruments (piccolo, clarinets, saxophones), and a complete marching percussion line (snare, tonal bass drums, cymbals, Quints, tenors). Our young people need to be engaged and active in something other than video games. They need a fun experience that is also physically and mentally challenging. The rigor of a show-style marching program will force them to be physically fit and mentally prepared.
High school graduates are not aiming to attend college, often times because they lack money. There are thousands of music scholarships available to qualified students each year. We want to maximize the number of scholarship opportunities our students receive by doing three things.
- Encouraging their pursuit of higher education, while stressing the importance of good grades
- Developing students’ music capability to make sure that they are scholarship audition-ready
- Arranging and providing auditions to university marching bands
Several college band directors have agreed to conduct scholarship auditions for interested high school juniors and seniors. They believe in our program, and fully support us because they know and trust the people involved. Students will learn in this camp, but they will also have fun, performing at holiday parades, professional sporting events, and other community events. We hope that you will join us in our endeavor to enhance marching band programs in DC.
We are currently recruiting musician and mentor volunteers. Please contact us for more information about The MusicianShip Marching Band and click here to register