Category: Jam Session
TRAC Creative Music & Jazz Camp
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> A summer residential program for blind & visually impaired teen musicians
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> Sponsored by the University of New Orleans
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> Training, Resource & Assistive-technology Center (TRAC
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2005
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> Jazz Camp Scholarships for Blind and Visually Impaired Teens
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> Scholarships are available for all blind and visually impaired teen
> musicians who are accepted for the 2005 TRAC Creative Music and Jazz Camp,
> a summer residential program, August 4-14, 2005, in New
> Orleans. Applications are available at
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http://www.unotrac.org/jazzcamp>www.unotrac.org/jazzcamp
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> The camp was created for blind and visually impaired students, ages 13-19,
> with at least two years of musical experience, an acceptable grade point
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> experience in playing jazz. Applicants must also submit an audition tape
> and have a recommendation from a music teacher. Up to 18 students will be
> accepted based on musical skills and experience. The scholarships cover
> the costs of all classes, dorm housing, meals, support materials and extra
> curricular activities. Students must supply their own transportation to
> New Orleans.
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> The camp is held at the University of New Orleans Training, Resource &
> Assistive-technology Center (TRAC). Established in 1986, TRAC offers
> persons with a wide range of disabilities a variety of services including
> high-tech training, career aptitude assessments, employment skills, and
> small business entrepreneurship programs, as well as special programs like
> the jazz camp.
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> The camp offers a fast-paced curriculum that includes instruction in
> specialized software that enables visually impaired musicians to compose,
> arrange, notate and make multi-track recordings on personal computers; a
> creative movement component; seminars and jam sessions with professional
> musicians; classes in music theory and jazz history; field trips to music
> venues; and the opportunity to perform at a public concert.
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> The staff is lead by Camp Creative director Henry Butler, a performer,
> composer and recording artist with an international career; and Camp
> Technology Director Bill McCann, a musician and president of a company
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> their fields and blind. Their example and mentoring educates the students
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> Wiltshire at <
mailto:Wiltshire@cox.net>wiltshire@cox.net
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> 504-280-5715. Media Contact: Gayle Gagliano, TRAC Director, 504-280-5700
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ggaglian@uno.edu
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