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Carol Smith
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is a freelance writer
and editor who lives in
Springtown, Pa. The former
high school journalism
adviser and English teacher
was editor of The Bethlehem
News, a Lehigh Valley News
Group publication. For 12
years, she edited The Wall
Street Journal Classroom
Edition Teacher Guide, a
Dow Jones & Company
publication. She can be
reached at casmith309@
verizon.net.
QUESTION — GRAMMY Camp student journalists interview Adam
Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 at USC Thornton School of
Music in Los Angeles, California. Update photos courtesy of The Recording
Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Jesse Grant © 2012
50 guest speakers are selected
to work with the students for the
camp’s seven career tracks.
“Guest speakers are chosen
from The Recording Academy
membership and leadership as
well as professionals who are
making an impact in industries
closely related to music,” Kristen
Madsen, GRAMMY Camp’s
senior vice president, said.
Career tracks include a focus
on audio engineering, electronic
music production, songwriting,
vocal and instrumental
performance, the music business
and multimedia.
There are also 11 core faculty
members in the Los Angeles
camp and five in the New York
camp. For 2013, 103 campers
from across the country were
accepted; 74 attended GRAMMY
Camp LA and 39 participated in
GRAMMY Camp NY.
The multimedia track is for
aspiring music journalists, music
video producers and content
creators and managers. This
track enables students to learn
the importance of telling a
story through creating original
digital media content. This
year’s campers produced a
first-time video highlighting the
GRAMMY Camp performers’
musical creations. In addition to
instruction in effective shooting,
editing, writing, reporting and
video production, students learn
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RAMMY Camp offers high
school students an opportunity
to improve their writing,
interviewing and video-making
skills under the direction of
industry professionals.
For 11th grader Hayley
Emerson, who likes to write and
film music videos, the 10-day
residential summer program
not only gave her a behind-thescenes look at the music industry
but also gave her the skills and
techniques needed to set a goal to
write a musical.
Emerson who now attends the
Berlin Brandenberg International
School (BBIS) in Berlin, Germany,
describes the GRAMMY Camp
experience as top-notch because
of the one-on-one attention
each participant receives and
the in-person networking with
professionals who make their
living in the industry.
GRAMMY Camp is a soupto-nuts live-in camp that gives
high school students a taste of
the music industry. While many
sessions focus on what it takes
to perform music, there are
behind-the-scenes tracks that
enable participants to get handson experience writing articles,
making videos of the bands and
other campers and promoting and
producing the final performance
show at the end of the camp.
At GRAMMY Camp, more than
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