The student ministry at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn., put together an entertaining camp rap video to get their students excited about summer camp. Check it out below or click HERE.
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Singer-songwriter Dar Williams has spent the last two summers visiting summer camps, where she has performed a concert and helped campers plant a bee-friendly garden.
This summer she’ll be doing it again, visiting camps in the Northeast.
“The past two years were a lot of fun and I’m excited to find a few more camps for this third annual tour,” she wrote on her blog.
Click here if you’re interested in having Dar visit your camp >>
Below is video of her visit to Camp Kadimah in Nova Scotia, the first stop on her tour in 2012. You can see more highlights from her trip at campsandbeegardens.tumblr.com.
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Allan Sherman’s hit song “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,” the most popular summer camp-inspired ever, a biography on his life and comedy will release on May 15.
In Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman, author Mark Cohen “argues persuasively for Sherman’s legacy as a touchstone of postwar humor and a turning point in Jewish American cultural history.”
With exclusive access to Allan Sherman’s estate, Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine. Comprehensive, dramatic, stylish, and tragic, Overweight Sensation is destined to become the definitive Sherman biography.
Speedy Ortiz is an up and coming noisy rock band from Massachusetts that’s been capturing buzz and making a name for a former camper and music teacher at Buck’s Rock Performing Arts Camp who fronts the four-piece.
In highlighting the band in a recent post, the MTV’s Buzzworthy Blog mentioned frontwoman Saide Dupuis’s summer camp connection, noting that she wrote the song “Ka-Prow!” while teaching a songwriting class for teenagers at the camp.
Prior to teaching at the camp, Dupuis was a camper, something she credited in another interview with having a significant impact in where she now finds herself.
“I played piano when I was young but didn’t play rock until I was thirteen at Buck’s Rock, a summer camp that’s more of a self-directed artist’s colony for teens,” she told PhantEye blog. “There, I got to play in bands and record songs and try out any instrument with no real commitment–drums, cello, oboe, whatever. It’s the coolest place. I doubt I would be in bands if I hadn’t gone there. I wound up working at this same camp as an adult, which was really rewarding.”
For more on the band, you can check out facebook.com/speedyortiz.
Today is Record Store Day, a day to celebrate the local record store and the pastime of collecting records so I thought it would be a good time to round up some vinyl album covers with a summer camp theme.
This 1988 Camp Song Sing-Along record from The Maranatha Kids features 38 Christian song favorites for camp sing alongs like “This Little Light,” “Do Lord,” “Give Me Oil In My Lamp” and more.
The Moose Song, aka Great Big Moose captured the Camp Song Madness final beating out Boom Chicka Boom with more than 75 percent of the vote. The win was one no one in our Bracket Challenge – won by the staff of Camp Foley – predicted. See the final standings HERE.