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11 Strangers Meet, Become a Family Through Camplified

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Eleven strangers in one van working together as a team. I wasn’t quit sure what to expect going into Camplified. I was excited to meet my crew members and share an adventure with them, but our experience ended up as more than just an adventure — it was an amazing learning experience. When I arrived to New York for the first time, I was amazed by the city! New York got nothing on Los Angeles, I thought. But I didn’t realized how lucky I was until I walked into the Primary Wave office and met some of my team members — Mike, Dre, Alex, Josh, Katie and wonderful Aimee Berger, the one woman who made this opportunity happen for all of us! Aimee gave us a tour through the Primary Wave office and discussed the great work PWMP participates in; it was then I realized how lucky I was to be apart of the Camplified crew. I felt as if this Camplified tour experience brought me one step closer to my dreams of working in the music and film industry. And I was right!

The first week of tour, we met up with Christy, Evelyn and Kris. We also stopped somewhere in Virginia at a Walmart and bought fireworks to shoot off for Katie’s birthday! We also went to Camp Highlander in North Carolina, in which I realized quickly was the camp I used to watch on a Disney TV show called Bug Juice! I had always wanted to go to this camp when I was younger, and now 10 years later, I was finally here. I was so excited! We started to adjust to sleeping in the van and working on a tiresome two hours-a-day sleeping schedule. However, during this time of lack of sleep, we were all getting to know one another, and it wasn’t long before we would eventually start to get on each others nerves haha. However, we all somehow adapted to one another and each others’ personalities. (more…)

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Official Camplified 2011 Press Release

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

CAMPLIFIED TOUR CELEBRATES 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Giving Emerging Artists a Platform for Exposure & Connecting Brands with Teens

NEW YORK, NY (July 11th, 2011) – Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the 2011 Camplified Tour hit the road last week in Ashville, NC at Camp Highlander. Developed by music executive Aimee Berger and powered by Primary Wave Music (www.PrimaryWaveMusic.com), one of the largest music publishing, marketing and talent management companies in the US, Camplified (www.Camplified.com) is a summer concert tour that is making stops at over 60 summer camps nationwide and will reach over 30,000 teens/tweens, bringing them a unique, age appropriate captive rock concert experience. This annual summer concert tour creates an exclusive music festival environment for one day at each camp along the tour, where campers are treated like VIPs with all day access passes. The day kicks off with the campers and artists participating together in branded activities provided by sponsors and ends with a 90-minute concert performance by three different emerging bands/artists. Following the concert is a meet-n-greet where campers will receive an autographed 2011 Camplified poster and have the chance to meet the featured artists.

Last year, Camplified helped launch the career of teen pop-star Cody Simpson and this summer joining the 10th Annual Camplified Tour are 28 talented, emerging artists such as singer/songwriter McKenzie Comer, sister duo Jenny and Ashley, Jessarae, Brkn Rbtz, Corbette Jackson and many more (full roster below). Sponsoring this year’s Camplified tour are brands including Cartoon Network promoting their new show “Adventure Time,” Scholastic Books, Playtex Sport, Monkey Brains, i-Safe Backpacks, DEOS, and more. Each sponsor creates a branded activity such as an obstacle course created by Cartoon Network, a “WAT-YOU-GOT Talent Contest” by WAT-AAH, “DEOSPHERE” where campers compete to design custom DEOS headphones, Epiphone Guitar clinics taught by the artists and much more.

Additionally, popular teen publication Justine Magazine is onboard to give Camplified campers, with an interest in journalism, an opportunity to be a “Camper Guest Reporter” for the day. The Camplified crew sets up a “media center” where each camper reporter interviews other campers, artists, counselors and brand representatives and the content is exclusively posted on Justine Magazine’s website for their readers to follow the fun and be exposed to these up-and-coming artists. As an added bonus, there will be “Green Screen Photo Booths,” where campers can take pictures of themselves in fun superimposed, branded scenes that they can then share with friends and family over their various social media accounts. All campers also receive a branded music download card, featuring one free song from each of the artists on the 2011 Camplified tour.

Camplified is a win-win experience for all involved – campers, artists and the brand sponsors. Campers get a celebrity, music and branded VIP live concert experience, complete with give-aways; Emerging bands/artists are able to go on tour, perform on stage and further build their fan-base; and, Sponsors get to directly connect their brand with this concentrated audience of 6 – 17 year old tweens/teens, an especially hard to reach demographic during the summer. In a music industry that is constantly trying to find creative ways to market new artists, this one-of-a-kind tour fills 135 performance slots over just two months and gives emerging artists an unbelievable, cost-effective platform to directly connect with their target audiences, while further developing themselves into true rock stars.

For 2011 Camplified Tour Dates: www.Camplified.com/eventlist.aspx

For a full 2011 Camplified Tour Artist Roster: www.camplified.com/artistslist.aspx

Thank you to the 2011 Camplified Tour Sponsors: http://www.camplified.com/partnerlist.aspx

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The Finale Jam at Camp Highlander

Friday, July 8th, 2011

At the end of each Camplified show, all of the artists and bands from that day gather onstage for the Finale Jam, where they rock out together and sing a popular cover song! Camplified founder Aimee Berger was there at Camp Highlander (our first tour stop!) and took this footage of McKenzie Comer, Ten West and Devon singing P!nk’s latest hit, “F**kin’ Perfect.” Check it out, above!

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Camplified: Bringing Mohawks & Music To Camp

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

What a couple of days! The opening sessions at Camp Highlander and Camp Thunderbird were a blast. I’ve been right in the mix with the campers, loving every second of the shows. The artists have really come to play, and I’ve seen two great concerts. Today we had our first activities session; which proved to be an awesome time had by all. Despite some outrageous heat and sweating out a typhoon, the afternoon’s events were really fun. I gave some of the campers mohawks with the Monkey Brains hair gel and made my own little army of punk rockers that would make The Sex Pistols jealous. While trying to give a demonstration of how the iSafe backpack works, I partially deafened myself which the kids seemed to enjoy. As I’m writing this, we’re on the way to West Virginia, almost all the way to the Ohio boarder. I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting almost no sleep for the next few days as we’re going to be traveling some pretty long distances between shows. I’m betting the campers’ energy is going to get me through it. Who needs sleep when you have rock ‘n’ roll summer camp? -Alex

Photos by William Ross.

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Meet Australian Singer/Songwriter McKenzie Comer

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Check out this video from Australian singer/songwriter McKenzie Comer, highlighting her performance during day one of the Camplified tour at Camp Highlander in Asheville, NC! You can also check out McKenzie’s YouTube channel to view another video of her rocking out at Camp Thunderbird. And get this, Camplified fans! McKenzie went to school back in Australia with Camplified 2010 artist Cody Simpson, who actually helped inspire McKenzie to make music! Small world, right?

McKenzie Comer will be playing the following Camplified 2011 dates:
July 2 – Camp Highlander
July 3 – Camp Thunderbird
July 5 – Camp Blue Star
July 7 – Camp Ingersoll
July 8 – Staten Island Day Camp

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Camplified: On The Road Again

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

And so it begins! Camp crew member Alex, here… the Camplified crew has set out on its 10th anniversary tour, bringing music, games and entertainment to camps all across the country. The journey started at the New York City headquarters, where we got our first glimpse of the notorious Camplified van. This year, our traveling home is a 12-passenger sprinter, decked out with Camplified artwork of our artists, sponsors, and of course, our logo. Life on the road has just started, but it’s shaping up to be a great summer. We’ve already had a reason to celebrate besides the tour kickoff; crew member Katie’s birthday. Festivities were sparked by a surprise midnight fireworks show and cupcakes during a food stop. We’re currently traveling through North Carolina for our first date of the tour at Camp Highlander. After months of preparation, we’re all super excited to present the first Camplified experience of the summer. One decade of Camplified tours and we can promise; it’s never been better. Campers, get ready!

Stay tuned for more updates from me and the rest of the tour crew, as we’ll be reporting all the juicy details right here, including hilarious on-the-road stories, behind-the-scenes camp adventures and more! -Alex

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Official Camplified 2011 Tour Poster

Monday, June 27th, 2011

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