We hope everyone is excited for Laurel Music Camp this upcoming Saturday! Did you miss your acceptance letter in the mail or email? Here it is in all of it's glory: 

Important things to note: 

• Registration begins at 9 AM on Saturday, June 23, 2018. After parking, campers and their parents/guardians will be directed to the Registration pavilion. All campers must be registered by 12:00 noon. Lunch will be served at 12:30. 
  • Camp Workcoeman is located at 169 Camp Workcoeman Road New Hartford, CT 06057.
    
• Registration Fees: Any balance due is payable at registration by check or money order – please no cash!  Write the camper’s name on the check or money order. WE CANNOT ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS AT CAMP. Payments via PayPal must be submitted prior to 3pm Friday June 22, 2018.
  
• Health Forms: With no exceptions, each camper must provide the LMC nurse with a completed BSA medical form. Important: Please see the LMC website (registration page) for the Nurse’s Checklist and all required medical forms. 
• Concert Attire: Campers will wear “concert black” for the final performance. Tuxedos/formal dresses are not needed; however, we do require students to wear black, and adhere to a Business Casual dress code. See earlier posts from last year for examples!
• Please visit our Registration Page for important documents including a packing list, prep checklist, and all health form documents. 

See you all bright and early on Saturday!

CAMP IS SO CLOSE! We cannot wait to see the blooming Laurel at Camp Workcoeman with everyone at check in 8 SHORT DAYS!

A quick announcement/reminder: our concluding concert this year will be held on Friday June 29th at 7PM at Naugatuck High School. We are very excited to be returning back to this beautiful auditorium to share all of the wonderful musical work we put together during the week of camp. 

A reminder for campers on Concert Dress: 
We ask that students wear “concert black” for the concert. While tuxedos and formal dresses are not needed, we do ask that campers dress nicely for the event. We like to think of it as Sunday’s best attire, rather than black tie.

• Black pants or skirt (knee length or below)
• Black button down shirt or nice blouse
• Black dress (knee length or below)
• Black Shoes
• A black tie is optional 
• A Jacket is not required (If not wearing a suit jacket, please wear a black collar shirt

What don’t I wear?

• Plastic flip-flops
• Very short or revealing clothing
• White socks with black shoes

Please remember that the students perform on an elevated stage under bright lights.  See-through clothing or short skirts are not appropriate – these are very obvious on stage. 

Please make sure to practice your chicken dance moves and we'll see you so soon!

Hey Laurel People!

We've had an overwhelmingly great start to our registration season! Hingham, MA and Newington, CT currently have the most students registered with 8 campers each that will join us in June! How exciting :) Many more districts across the northeast are represented... Cheshire, Trumbull, Naugatuck, Coventry and a few students joining us from NYC just to name a few!

For those 112 campers that have already registered, ACCEPTANCE PACKETS WILL BE SENT OUT IN THE COMING WEEKS. These packets will have additional information on: required forms, contact information, packing lists and much, much more. We know you have tons of questions... answers are on the way!

Haven't registered yet? No sweat! But: spots are filling up QUICKLY so we highly recommend adding it to your to-do list ASAP! We are specifically looking to fill out the following sections of our ensembles: violin, string bass, male vocalists, trombone and french horn. Make sure to spread the word!

ALL THINGS REGISTRATION: http://www.laurelmusiccamp.com/registration.html

Good Morning Laurel Music Camp! 

Registration has opened and spaces are filling up quick! We're just as excited as all of you :) We wanted to share some reminders of our guest conductors for the 2018 season: 

Three of our conductors from last season will be returning, and we have a new but familiar face leading our choir for the first time: Nhung Truong!

We can't wait to see you all on June 23rd! Spots are filling up fast, so if you haven't registered yet get to it! All information can be found on our website. 

Hey camp family! Our senior staff recently held our elections for Director of Laurel Music Camp. We are pleased to announce that Phil Giampietro will be serving as our new Director! His term begins with our September senior staff meeting in preparation for the 2018 season. Best wishes to Phil in this endeavor, and a huge THANK YOU to our departing director Scott Minnerly. He did an amazing job and we will be forever grateful! 

And, I all lead you in the following cheer: PHIL, PHIL, PHIL, PHIL...

GUYS: CAMP IS SOOOOO CLOSE!!!
Here's a big picture checklist of things to do leading up to next week:

                                                               Have you...

• Had your physical and mailed your health form to the address in the packet prior to June 20, 2017 (otherwise bring it to camp check in)

                                  Jeff Liskin
                                  55 Overlook Rd
                                  Winsted, CT 06098  

• Packed your audition piece and a music stand (instrumentalists only)
• Packed all of your concert attire (mom can't bring it to the concert it has to be at camp!)
• Made sure your parents/guardians know where the concert is:

                                Naugatuck High School
                                543 Rubber Ave
                                Naugatuck, Ct 06770  Downbeat @ 7pm (Please arrive early)

• Left your flipflops home
• Remember there is no place to charge your electronic device….why not unplug?
• Prepared yourself for an awesome week, making music and meeting new friends?

Some other helpful items: 
Sleeping bags or bedding (cots provided)                            Towels
Clothes for warm and cold weather                                      Rain Gear
Shoes appropriate for walking in the woods                         Personal grooming items
Flashlight with extra batteries                                               Rope for clothesline
Reading and writing materials as desired                             Insect repellent
Recreational materials as desired (softball glove)                Bathing suit
bug net for over the bunk (avail at scout store)                     Your instrument, guitar, Ukulele


AAAAAND remember that our concert dress is ALL BLACK THIS YEAR! See below for appropriate examples: 

Hello Laurel Music Camp! The senior staff is busy getting all of the details ready to go for LMC 2017. We can't wait to see you all there! Acceptance packets will be mailed out within the next week. This Morning, we have some important information to share regarding the final concert. 

Concert Location
Friday June 30th, 7PM
Naugatuck High School Auditorium
543 Rubber Ave
Naugatuck, CT 06770

Concert Dress (for campers)
We ask that students wear “concert black” for the concert. THIS IS A CHANGE FROM PAST YEARS, PLEASE NOTE!!!! While tuxedos and formal dresses are not needed, we do ask that campers dress nicely for the event. We like to think of it as Sunday’s best attire, rather than black tie.

• Black pants or skirt (knee length or below)
• Black button down shirt or nice blouse
• Black dress (knee length or below)
• Black Shoes
• A black tie is optional 
• A Jacket is not required (If not wearing a suit jacket, please wear a black collar shirt

Photo examples of appropriate "Concert Black" dress

What don’t I wear?

• Plastic flip-flops
  
• Very short or revealing clothing
  
• White socks with black shoes

Please remember that the students perform on an elevated stage under bright lights.  See-through clothing or short skirts are not appropriate – these are very obvious on stage. 

Happy Monday LMC fans! We had a great staff meeting on Sunday (at a snowy Camp Workcoeman, which was different), and we are gearing up and getting ready to make 2017 the greatest season yet!

We wanted to share exciting news with you all: all of the conductors from last summer will be BACK to share their expertise with you again this summer! We couldn't be more pleased :)

Ron Ciasullo (Jazz Band), Gary Partridge (Band), Sarah Bowe (Choir) and Ertan Sener (Orchestra) are all looking forward to working with you again! Check out our posts from last year for more specific details about our wonderful guest conductors. 

We hope to have our registration officially open later this week, so stay tuned for an official announcement!

Hellooooooooo Laurel Music Camp! We hope you are all having a wonderful school year and a jolly start to the holiday season! We have some exciting news to share with you regarding the preparations for our 75th Anniversary coming up in 2019, and we need your help: 

The Laurel Music Camp, Inc. 75th Anniversary Committee is seeking artists and graphic artists to create an image to be used as a logo to represent the 75th anniversary celebration of Laurel Music Camp, Inc.

Laurel Music Camp, Inc. is a non-profit organization in the State of Connecticut that provides a one week camp experience to junior and senior high school students at a camp owned and run by the Boy Scouts of America.  It is staffed by volunteer music educators and former campers. Its philosophy is that of “Fellowship Through Music”.

Images/logos are to be submitted in color.  If the image has multiple colors, please also include a single color version and a transparency of the image, all in Jpeg, PDF and EPS format along with the attached release to Roberta Prior at RobertaPrior@yahoo.com by no later than January 6, 2017.

Images will be reviewed and selected by the Laurel Music Camp 75th Anniversary Committee where the top three submissions will be to be voted on by the entire LMC voting membership.   The artist for the winning logo will receive two complimentary tickets to the LMC 75th Anniversary Concert on June 28, 2019.

We hope everyone has a moment to share their ideas for the logo! Please submit your submissions (along with the below release form) before January 6th... we can't wait to see what you come up with!

We're wishing all of our campers (and staff!) a wonderfully successful school year! Make sure to share one thing you learned at LMC this summer with you classmates and your music director! We can't wait to see you all again next year!

Want to relive the concert all year long? Make sure you grab the concert CD (... and DVD if you wish!) and listen to it over and over and over... check it out on the Soundwaves website here.