“Since its birth, the debate has raged on about just what is and isn’t country music. Country music is decidedly American– pieced together from English folk traditions in the hills of the Appalachian mountains and meddled together with popular and religious music with the final touch of the singer’s personal experience– country music has always, even from the very beginning, been about the story and the experience.” (onecountry.com)

The CMC Country Music Camp empowers young musicians to find their voices and to tell stories (their own and others’) through music. Campers join us for a week of immersion in country and folk traditions, from old time roots to alt-country, outlaw, honky tonk, Nashville and countrypolitan sounds. The camp curriculum includes private lessons (voice or instrumental). Students will also learn basic music theory, songwriting, and participate in performance projects. Camp culminates with an informal in-house showcase at each camp location.

Since we divide by age and skill level, our Country and Folk Camp is open to beginners and advanced students alike.

8:00 Check in: students sign in, put their things away and then have quiet choices until 9:00am.

9:00 - 9:15: Circle time, gather students, learn names.  Go over music center inside boundaries and expectations. Video; Meet the Orchestra.  

9:15-10:15: EveryDay Sing: Viva la Vida, Waving Flag, Cripple Creek, and Country Roads.  Please add in other songs as you want/need.  The four songs listed here can be played on open strings and/or first position.  

10:15-10:45: Morning fruit break.  Go over outside expectations, and boundaries.

10:45-12:00: Review solfege, note names, treble, bass, and alto clef, staff, lines and spaces, etc.  Queen Treble/King Bass song.  Worksheets for treble, bass, and alto clef.  Fingerboard for all stringed instruments.

12:00-1:00:  Lunch and outside/free choice time.

1:00-2:00: Go over the parts of the violin.  Viola will be the same.  Cello and bass add in the end pin.  Make Puff Ball Monsters.  

2:00-2:30: Afternoon fruit break. 

2:30-4:00: Learn bow holds;  for violin and viola, and cello.  Play four corners with violin music, pointing bows instead of moving bodies.  Pass toilet paper tubes back and forth  (using tip of the bow).  

4:00-6:00: Free choices and practicing

8:00-9:00: Check in: students sign in, put their things away and then have quiet choices until 9:00am.

9:00 -10:15:

• Circle time, gather students, learn names. 
• Go over music center inside boundaries and expectations.
• Go over Country styles.  Types of Country Music and Country Music?

10:15-10:45:

• Morning fruit break. 
• Go over outside expectations, and boundaries.

10:45-12:00:

• EveryDay Sing. Ring of Fire, Country Roads.

12:00-1:00: 

• Lunch and outside/free choice time.

1:00-2:00:  

• Games

2:00-2:30:

• Afternoon fruit break. 

2:30-4:00: 

• Take 5 Passing Game 
• EveryDay Sing

4:00-6:00:

• Free choices and pick-up

Atlanta Music High 

Session 1: July 8-12

Session 2: July 15-19

Session 3: July 22-26

CMC Atlanta Summer Showcase Performances:

Saturday, June 29, 2019 @ 7Stages Theatre, Little 5 Points (evening)

Friday, July 26, 2019  @ Atlanta Music High School/Rivers Academy, North Druid Hills/Brookhaven (evening)