Last-Minute Opportunity: GRAMMY Camp Accepting Applications

Are you a Canon-McMillan High School student interested in a career in the music industry? Then you might want to look into a program offered by the GRAMMY Foundations.

Yes, the deadline to apply for the program is Thursday — but organizers say online applications are available and that the program can be contacted at grammycamp@grammy.com for an extension to submit the full application.

Interested?

Here’s the deal:

The GRAMMY Foundation (www.grammyfoundation.org) announced this year’s seventh-annual GRAMMY Camp — its signature music industry camp for U.S. high school students — will be held in both Los Angeles and New York this summer.

So far, its only location has been Los Angeles, but the program is expanding to the East Coast to reach a broader range of students.

Financial aid is available, and about 70 percent of GRAMMY Camp participants who applied for financial aid have received assistance. Students are able to apply to either or both sessions of GRAMMY Camp, and there is discounted tuition for participation in both sessions.

This program is supported in part by Best Buy, Converse, and the Hot Topic Foundation. Applications for paid positions as GRAMMY Camp counselors for young people ages 21–25 are also available online at www.grammyintheschools.com.

"I would encourage any U.S. high school student interested in exploring a career in the music industry — whether as a performer, a producer, a songwriter, a journalist, an engineer or a promoter — to apply to one or both of our GRAMMY Camps," said Neil Portnow, President/Chief Executive Officer of The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation in a release. "Every music person I speak to about GRAMMY Camp says, 'I wish they had something like this when I was young.' It's simply that impactful a program."

Here’s the info on the GRAMMY Camp in New York: Aug. 2–8, 2011
GRAMMY Camp N.Y. is seven-day residential program for high school students hosted in New York at Converse Rubber Tracks studio, the new state-of-the-art recording studio Converse will open in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2011.

It offers campers the opportunity to work in integrated industry teams consisting of three fields: Music Business & Production; Singer/Songwriter, and Performance — Instrumental Or Vocal. This real-world, hands-on environment will involve an in-depth look at the entire creative process from the first spark of original material through the promotion of a finished product, and will culminate in a launch party at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.

For more information, please visit www.grammyintheschools.com.