Camplified 2011 artist Rob Drabkin will be playing the Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, May 8, opening for Styx and REO Speedwagon. Congrats, Rob!!

Also be sure to check out Rob’s new album that just hit iTunes, Live At the Bluebird Theater 1.19.12. Click here to buy now on iTunes.

Camplified founder Aimee Berger is slated to speak at this year’s Music Biz 2012 conference in Los Angeles, alongside some of the best and brightest in the music industry!

AIMEE BERGER, Primary Wave Music
Artist Manager Town Hall
Wed., May 9, 3-5 PM
In August of 2008, Aimee Berger brought her management and concert tour company in house to Primary Wave Music. Berger oversees the Camplified tour, a concert and branded experience inside summer camps for emerging artists and sponsors interested in targeting a captive audience of tween and teen campers. She also handles additional brand partnerships and marketing initiatives for Primary Wave and its live events division Hear Here.

Click here for more info on Music Biz 2012. Special thanks to panel moderator Tamara Conniff at TheComet.com for inviting Aimee to speak on her industry expertise at Music Biz.

This just in from Devin Lasker, a partner of Hear.Here, Primary Wave Music and Camplified, regarding an exciting upcoming event for those of you (or your parents) who happen to be huge UFC/MMA fans!

Four Bands!  Five Professional MMA Fights!  One Night!  That sums up what you can expect at the inaugural “Rock Out Knock Out” event taking place June 2, 2012 at the historic Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey.  Produced by Primary Wave Music and Live Nation, “Rock Out Knock Out” combines live music with the world’s fastest rising sport, mixed martial arts (MMA) on one ticket featuring four bands and five professional MMA fights all in one night.  Putting the “Rock” in “Rock Out” is the multi-platinum band Fuel, performing their hits “Shimmer” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” while the “Knock Out” side will feature Ryan Vaccaro, Justin Haskins and Anthony Craparo — three fighters from New Jersey coached by retired UFC fighter and New Jersey MMA legend Kurt Pellegrino.

Click here to purchase your tickets to “Rock Out Knock Out”! Like Rock Out Knock Out on Facebook and check ‘em out online at rokotour.com.

You love us! You really, really love us! This just in from the Camp Craze blog:

We are excited to announce that CAMPLIFIED has won the Best Summer Camp Entertainer as voted on by YOU! Here is their Awards Acceptance Speech received just moments ago:

We’re honored to have won the Campie Award for BEST Summer Camp Entertainment, seeing as we work so hard to bring the ROCK CONCERT experience to summer camps across the United States! We strive to bring top-notch entertainment to camp through emerging musicians and artists, along with the coolest products and brands. Seeing the campers’ faces light up when a band takes the stage or when they discover a talent they didn’t know they had when participating in one of our branded activities makes everything worth it. Thanks a million to those of you who voted for us, it truly does mean so very much. Here’s to many more years rockin’ out at summer camp!

For more info on Camplified, contact:
Aimee Berger
212.661.6990
aberger@primarywavemusic.com

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Check out this GREAT article about the importance of sending today’s generation to summer camp, courtesy of the Huffington Post.

“America needs to send all of these kids to camp this summer before this generation loses the values that have driven our country since the beginning. Summer camps have been a U.S. tradition for over 150 years according to PBS and Parenting. …Today, there are several other reasons why ‘Generation Z’ must go to camp. They need to actually meet new people who are not part of their virtual world. Camp provides not only peers, but positive role models in counselors and those running camp projects. They need to learn risk taking by trying new things and challenging themselves with a new sport or swimming or obstacle courses. They need to learn creativity with crafts or dancing.

“Today’s camps are so different than the traditional camps for my generation. In addition to general camps, there are specialty camps — sports camps like basketball or horseback riding; academic camps like biology or math; adventure camps like scuba diving or rock climbing; arts camps like theater or music; specialty interest camps for cooking or chess; religious camps and special needs camps.

“In the evolution of life, it is time for the Baby Boomer Generation and Generation X to step up to make sure we do not lose this newest Generation Z to the virtual world. We need to get these kids out playing and communicating and winning and losing so they can take our place in getting this country back to leading the world in economic and ethical ways.”

(via Huffington Post)

Check out the video teaser for Jenny and Ashley‘s newest single, “My Kinda Life.” The pop/country duo performed on the 2011 Camplified Tour — click here to purchase their new single, “My Kinda Life,” on iTunes! (via BSCKids.com)

Check out this video posted by Camplified 2011 act Sam&Nate performing at Ivy League Day Camp! The pop/hip-hop duo rock out to a Hot Chelle Rae cover and dish on a few of their tourmates like Savvy and Varsity Girls.

Camplified artist Thomas Fiss recently met with the folks at YoungHollywood.com and performed his song, “Gravity.” He also dished on a few of his musical influences (Justin Timberlake, One Republic and Coldplay), chatted about his upcoming album (out this summer!) and answered a few fan questions! Check it out in the video above… and OMGosh, isn’t he so cute?!

Wow! Talk about an artist committed to spreading the word and getting our attention! Payton Rae and her HUGE fan base have been bombarding us with tweets and Facebook posts about participating in the Camplified 2012 summer tour — and we love it!!! If you know of a band or artist you would like to see play on the Camplified 2012 tour, tell us via Twitter @Camplified or our Facebook page… and we’ll see what we can do!